Excerpt from The Consolidated Rural School A tremendous centralization of government has sudden' ly taken place, never to decentralize to our former status. Our young men have been taken from their homes, their factories, and their farms, and have been sent by the huno dred thousand to Europe to make the world safe for de mocracy; the government has taken over many entire industries, nation-wide in scope, such as the railroads men tioned, and has integrated and ruled them as a unit and with a firm hand; prices have been set for all the principal commodities; and both production and consumption have been interfered with and regulated in the interest of national welfare to an extent formerly deemed utterly impossible ex cept in a socialistic state. As the federal government has become entirely dominant and masterful in the nation, so, too, the individual State governments have drawn to them selves extensive powers formerly thought to be the poms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.