Now one object of-" The Village" is to pool information
on the various efforts made in any and every county to restore and maintain the vitality and vivacity of village life. For example, the village of Cambo in Northumberland has a scheme by which the school children are provided with a bowl of hot soup every day. In Sussex school canteens are in being. In Devon parents and the county council have co-operated with the farmers in a scheme to provide the children with small quantities of graded milk. What is being done for health in such respects is also being done for art. Hertfordshire, for example, has a Rural Music School that takes good advantage of the astonishing stimulus to the musical sense supplied by the B.B.C. If we could get from the villages an account of definitely successful contributions to the technique of rural life, what a fmitful pool of progress we could have I
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