Word: ruralization
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...town of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, churchmen of three faiths last week made a great and happy to-do over cooperatives. At Antigonish's small Roman Catholic St. Francis Xavier University were 1,000 people-among them 250 clergymen and educators from the U. S.-to attend a Rural and Industrial Conference, to behold how the 100% Christian economics of cooperatives had put the whole region on its feet...
Over 1,000,000 families in the rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of green vegetables and milk will forestall the disease. But still pellagra continues. In its advanced stages it has been considered incurable, since the patients are unable to ingest the necessary kinds of food...
...Crime Seminar was formed for the benefit of rural prosecuting attorneys who know nothing about crime detection beyond what fiction and films have taught them, who are nevertheless often obliged, in a pinch, to turn detective. Thirty-five ambitious, youngish men from 23 States last week buckled down to an intensive program of lectures, demonstrations, discussions. Their teachers were from Northwestern's Law School, from the famed Crime Detection Laboratory recently sold to Chicago by Northwestern...
...Housing (Rural Workers) Amendment Act, The Housing (Financial Provisions) Act and The Housing (Scotland) Act, offered State aid in the abatement of overcrowding, .all designed to stimulate local and private initiative in a program of "Tory Socialism...
...power of Federal patronage, they organized the State's 7,500 jobholders into an efficient Chandler machine. Campaign contributions of 2% salary (as in the Townsend-McNutt machine over in Indiana) are expected. To compete with the enormous WPA and AAA influences for Barkley, a rural State road program this year provided jobs for 3,000 additional Chandler workers. Chandler supporters are this month distributing Old Age Benefit payments by hand instead of mail. To sellers of liquor and beer Happy has given a 40-day extension of their licenses, just beyond primary day. If a lot of free...