Word: ruralization
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...Michigan last week 1,500 rural schools opened prematurely, to save as much as possible in fuel while the weather is still warm. In other States, where schools closed early last spring and looked as if they would stay closed this autumn, educators took heart. They were going to get Federal help. To be sure, not the thoroughgoing help they had long been asking for, but nevertheless something. Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that unemployed school teachers would be put in rural schools that might otherwise have been closed. They will receive work-relief wages, through State...
Officials in 33 States report 80,000 unemployed teachers. In 15 States, school terms have been shortened. The Federal plan, patterned after one which New York State first put in effect, will help particularly rural districts, which must provide their own funds for fuel, textbooks, lighting, etc. etc. City districts will receive aid only if they use it for courses for adult illiterates (in which the U. S. Government thinks it has a proper stake...
Secretary Wallace took an opposite view. He wanted to sidestep the law of 1875, pay cotton planters $100,000,000, wheat growers almost as much as a direct means of upping agricultural purchasing power. He feared a rural revolt against all future crop reduction plans if farmers did not get quick cash for their cooperation...
...which the Church of England had fallen gave Dr. Keble sound reason for his diatribes. On Easter Day, 1800, the Lord Bishop of London had reported there were only six communicants in St. Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...
...Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair sample, contain as many radio clowns and crooners as possible, are intended to delight rural cinemaddicts whose tastes in diversion have been shaped by wireless. Thus, College Humor contains George Burns and Gracie Allen...