The 1900 census showed an approximate population of 45,000,000 people in the rural sections of the country and 30,000,000 in urban territory. Since that time, there has been an increase of less than 5,000,000 in the rural regions of the country, with an increase of more than 40,000,000 in the urban sections. The 1930 census showed less than 50,000,000 living in the rural sections of the country and more than 70,000,000 in its urban sections. What has caused this vast exodus from country to city? As best I can judge from information gathered from various sources, there have been four primary reasons for people leaving the country and migrating to the city. First, parents wish to offer their children the greatest advantages in life. The limited educational and social opportunities of the country in the past have forced parents to seek the urban centers for the benefits offered there for children. Second, the drudgery of farm life, with no wages or a low income, and the attraction of industrial employment, with regular wages and more reasonable working hours, have caused, not only parents to seek life in the cities, but also-and especially-the young men and women, to whom conditions of life on the farm have held out little hope for happiness. Third, a desire for more social contacts, such as are offered in recreational centers, parks, and playgrounds, better health facilities, and other attractions afforded by urban life, and lacking in the country. Fourth, an insufficient knowledge of proper farming methods; not only of producing, but of marketing farm products. In these four particulars, the rural educational system of the last quarter of a century has failed to meet the needs of farm people. Let us see what we find as the result of people leaving the country and flocking to the city. First, we find thousands of abandoned farms left to the mercy of Mother Nature to waste away through soil erosion and to grow up haphazardly in rubbish without any planning or forethought as to the future use of the soil. Much of this waste land, as well as the forest, has been unprotected against forest fires which have destroyed millions of dollars worth of the nation's resources. Second, this movement from the farms to the cities has brought about an industrial congestion. Industry in the past was forced to locate near transportation systems where electric power and water