Word: ruralization
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...Rural, red-faced Stewart Andes Maples, a Rutherford Countian, let his dental plate fall twice as he inveighed against "infernal, shameful roadhouses," click-clacked his support of Roosevelt "as a good Samaritan." Back snapped Mrs. W. C. Branch, "I have a little boy . . . who asks for nickels like they grow on trees. Mr. Roosevelt reminds me of my little...
Wright Arthur Patterson is editor in chief of Western Newspaper Union, which supplies "boiler plate" (stereotyped feature columns) and "readyprint" feature pages to rural newspapers. The nation does not stir at mention of his name, but he has some 12,000 country editors as clients (of whom about 4,000 consider Pat Patterson their personal friend), and through their papers he has a total circulation of more than 30,000,000. Last week, in Chicago, 100 of his 4,000 friends gave Editor Patterson a dinner to celebrate his 50 years with W.N.U...
W.N.U. now has 34 plants, scattered from Manhattan to San Francisco, Minneapolis to Dallas. For its 3,000 ready-print customers, W.N.U. prints either four or six pages, with or without advertising, ships them to the country press, where local news and editorials are added. Available for rural clients are news analyses, a Washington letter, cartoons, war pictures, Bible lessons, comic strips, genteel fiction...
...place he has picked for his retirement is a desk-but no job-in the office of the Orange (pop. 8,066) News, 35 miles from Los Angeles. For he thinks the rural press is the backbone...
...intimately perceived, among its inhabitants, that tell the whole fate and meaning of a nation. The Lohrkes' regretful opinion: that England is at once dying, dead and badly in need of burial. They offer some somber and eloquent notes: on the deep feudal loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people...