Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1919 — Y. M. C. A. IN DARKEST RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

Y. M. C. A. IN DARKEST RUSSIA.

The rural group (of the American Y. M. C. A. in Russia? dealt with another need of national magnitude. The mighty Volga basin, covering more than half a million square miles, is unable even in normal times wholly to feed the huge population it holds. E. T. Cotton in Association Men says a floating exhibit was'made up to visit and impress theteeming riverside communities with the importance of more sowing, better production and fuller conservation. A staff of 35 was organized to demonstrate with models, moving pictures, lantern slides, charts and lectures such neglected subjects as seed selection, cultivation, dairying. horticulture, animal husbandry, bee keeping, domestic economy, play life for children and other aspects of community welfare. This association conception and undertaking won instant recognition, the government furnishing a steamboat, a barge and some funds.