Word: ruralization
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...Ziolkowski borrowed a trailer and carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall. There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled. He turned night into day with glaring floodlights, rang West Hartford's rural welkin with an electric drill. When the West Hartford clergy protested his working on the Sabbath, bushy-headed Ziolkowski snorted: "There seems to be no objection to golfing, tennis, motoring and sports in general on the Sabbath, so why the rumpus over the creation of a masterpiece...
...Rural projects are planned for later in the fall. Beside giving the group an opportunity for concrete service, the broad program also includes speakers and discussion. Non-college workers will be admitted as soon as things are more definitely organized, he declared...
...train rural pastors to meet present-day social and economic problems on the farms just as the Schools of Social Justice (TIME, Aug. 25) are already training priests to meet the-social and economic problems in industrial areas...
...plan reflects most clearly the basic program contemplated by the Conference, which agreed that the best way to get more Catholics to live on farms and raise more children is to make farm life more attractive and to identify Catholicism with various movements designed to raise the standard of rural living. The Conference particularly opposed the present trend towards big mechanized farms and proposed taxing them out of existence by graduating land taxes to penalize size. It wanted people with a farm background put on family-size farms. It also wanted factory workers encouraged to live on small rural homesteads...
...encourage each largely urban diocese to "adopt" a rural diocese and big city parishes to "adopt" country parishes, defraying the cost of missionary work there...