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P.A.C. also brought out some Republican votes. Frightened by P.A.C. 's aggressiveness, GOPsters put on vigorous registration counterattacks of their own. But a check of P.A.C. centers of activity showed that in most cases the rural (and normally Republican) vote dropped off from 1940, while Democrats gained or nearly held their previous totals in industrial centers...
Wood, used for heat on farms and in scattered rural areas where anyone can get it, is not a general problem, except in thickly populated western Washington, half of which uses wood for fuel. With many lumbermen now working in war plants at higher pay, the area was 200,000 cords short this year. To persuade farmers and amateur woodsmen to make up the difference, the Government offered a subsidy of $2.50 a cord to anyone who would work in the forests. In eastern cities and suburbs, where householders use fireplaces for supplementary heat, wood was scarce and expensive...
Eleanor Roosevelt got a bigger hand for a neat brushing-off of portly, potent Edward A. O'Neal, hard-lobbying president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. In the course of a debate about teacher unionization, Mrs. Roosevelt asserted that, in rural communities, a teacher with an idea always risked the danger of attack by "someone from Mr. O'Neal's organization [here she lowered her voice to a pompous politico gruffiness] saying that it is a very dangerous doctrine!" It brought down the house...
...another member of the Roosevelt household. "I've been here two days," said an Alabama delegate, abruptly interrupting his own paper on the Organization and Administration of Rural Education, "but I haven't been able to do what my people back home want me to do. They sent me up here to see Fala, and to give Fala the greetings of my sister-in-law's Scotty, Bonny Hooper." Mrs. Roosevelt left the room, reappeared. Fifteen minutes later Fala entered, got a tremendous hand...
Postwar Farms (MARCH OF TIME] will interest not only farmers but also those numerous urbanites who wonder wistfully how they might make out on five acres and a prayer. General answer: there is a chance for small farmers, through rural electrification and cooperatives, but not too gay or sure a one. Few or none of the returning soldiers who look forward to farming can be absorbed on the land; and the small farmer at best is threatened by the expanding immensity of 20th-century big-business farming. Most impressive-and to many, most depressing-shots in the film show...