There is a system of
compensation to the families for work done as a balance on which
to begin life anew.
Twelve hundred consolidated schools in Ohio attest the
successful workings of the rural school code which was brought
into existence in 1914 after careful study and after the state
in general meetings had carefully studied the plans. The old
one-room school house is giving way in the country to the modern
centralized school and community life is being remade. Through
the raising of the country school to the plane of those of the
cities, it will be possible to check the alarming drift to the
cities and depopulation of the countryside. Governor Cox does
not believe that the federal government should interfere in the
affairs of local communities but he does believe that it "can
inventory the possibilities of progressive education, and in
helpful manner create an enlarged public interest in this
subject."
Along with the improvement of rural schools has gone a most
comprehensive highway programme involving an annual outlay of
millions of dollars. Gradually as highways are improved they
will, under the state policy shaped in 1913, be taken over by
the state.
The agricultural legislation was in consonance with the other
subjects touched. Ohio was long a dumping ground for inferior
fertilizers, diseased livestock and impure seed. Adequate laws
have changed all this. Still, these are police measures not of
necessity a true index of real vision in agricultural matters.
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