Word: ruralization
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Closed during the evacuation, Britain's rural schools began to reopen last week. By running school houses on double shifts, using village halls, taking pupils on field trips, Britain's teachers, who had efficiently supervised the evacuation, hoped to give their children as good an education as ever...
London was most thoroughly prepared. It planned to evacuate its 650,000 school children, school by school, into "safe" areas, billet them with rural families, teach them in rural schools on double shifts. On Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played...
...attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...
...Hershberger of Goshen, Ind., who declared: "Industrial coercion in any form, whether peaceful or not, is not scriptural.' It usually leads to violence." His proposed solution: a "return to the farm, where our people were always happy and successful," backed by a development of rural cooperatives and a church-financed program to purchase farms for young couples...
...Harrington last week: 1) warned subordinate officials to shun local, State and national politics, on pain of dismissal; 2) reduced the differences between WPA wages in the South and other regions. He increased the minimum pay for common labor in the South from $19 per month to $31.20 in rural areas, the maximum in cities from $35 to $50.70, meantime readjusting rates elsewhere to hike the national average from $53 to $55.50. Even this beneficence had a shock effect on the South where WPA pay already was sufficiently above private pay (for farm hands, domestics, etc.) to make labor hard...