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N.E.A. President Donald DuShane: "Our schools are not sufficiently financed, developed or protected to insure the future of our democracy. . . . Over 18,000,000 adults . . . cannot read a newspaper understandingly or write a simple letter. . . . In one-half of our 48 States the average rural teacher receives less than $600 per year. . . . The movement to reduce . . . school services and support because of the prospect of higher federal taxes has already begun. . . . There is a marked increase in unjust and destructive criticism of teachers, textbooks. ... In this period of national crisis it is as important to support and improve our schools...
Compared to the razzle-dazzle, full-blast Russo-German world series. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Syrian campaign last week seemed like a bland rural cricket match with luncheon intervals and time out for tea. But with Damascus fallen, Beirut tottering, Palmyra (Tadmor) encircled and a drive on for the important road junctions and airport at Horns, it looked as though the match would soon be won by Sir Henry's British-Free French team...
...Auburn, taught it at Tulane. He is an artist of considerable merit, once did a book of caricatures and satirical biographies with William Falkner. In 1925 he began vacation wanderings in Mexico, fell in love with Taxco, settled down to write a notable little book on Mexican village and rural life (Little Mexico), which was introduced by his good friend Diego Rivera...
...real colonist is almost always an agrarian. The Latin and Slavic peoples in New England are filtering back into the rural districts and on to the lands...
Ralston, N.J., a sleepy rural village of 100 inhabitants near Morristown, likes to boast that its post-office building (built in 1776) is the oldest in the U.S. Nowadays the post office has eight box holders, only 17 other customers. Most Ralstonites get their mail at Mendham or Chester, each two miles away...