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 EOONOIfIO. PBOBLEM$ aisc much may be done for of new ideas, for leavening of mass of conservatism, by gathering groups, never -I believe the ps.- meation the great larger than 100, of headmen, leading cultivators, etc., into conferences in model villages in centres where there are experknenal or demonstration farms, ..and leading physicians and others village problems. prepared lrogram Within much fitted to lecture ten days by a information and .upon eefully praotioal transform so necessary and action. All -Arts Colleges, however, may not be able to relate themselves in this way to the village problem. Because of their situation or their inclination they may wish to devote themselves to industry, or to the economic aspects of civics. The teehuical departments of industry offer no opportunity for student endeavor, unless it be in the handicrafts which are still extant in every centre. In co-operation with Government departxhents students might accomplish something in the direction of co-operative purchase oJ raw mater. s and of sale. A commercial museum of the type so ofleu met with in Japan might -up, exhibiting the' products of the town or city, serving not in time be built of the industries only as a roesres of but also - chasers. education to visitors to the "wonder house", forming a useful guide to intending pur- This should prove particularly valuable when tou traffic is again resumed. The small economic museum we have been building up in our own college has already attracted visitors who have heard of it 95 - know]edge is usually into resolution teaching could be given, .and a nucleus of progressive men gradually secured in each village. In such conferences the economic students again might prove invaluable, not only by their lantern lectures, but by private conversation and discussion which