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of the problem of a degenerating physical stock, due to excessive childbearing.

When the rural community has reached the level of Main Street, then we may begin to talk satirically about the "culture" of its inhabitants; then we may begin to ship in carloads of Maeterlinck and Dunsany and Max Beerbohm. But while the rural community remains in the condition so powerfully depicted in Weeds let us quite unabashedly thank God for the Rotarians.