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...State Fair is "rich in sharp, exact detail" is to trespass on this TIME quality which to the devoted newsmagazine reader is sacred ground. TIME'S review of State Fair was reasonable, but to refer to the book as a standard of accuracy in details of Iowa rural life (p. 33, Sept. 5 issue) is deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about. lowans exhibit their pigs in pens, not "cages" as is done in State Fair. One judge and not a committee...
...England showed that average church attendance varies inversely with the size of the community, from 71% in a village of less than 2,500 to 30% in a city over 50,000. Regionally, the lowest average attendance is in the urban Middle Atlantic states; the highest (78%) in the rural Southeast...
Before the Hoover Administration began to get actively exercised about the Depression, New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner introduced, among other features of his proposed Unemployment relief legislation, the idea of lending Federal funds for city slum clearance. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, born in rural Germany but raised in a teeming tenement district of Manhattan, well knows the housing conditions that exist and are for the most part steadfastly ignored, even denied, in every city in the land. Alfred Emanuel Smith and other political friends of Senator Wagner with city backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea...
...break this rural habit Dictator Stalin forced the peasants into "collective farms" which the State supplied with tractors. It was thought that with a State-appointed Communist in charge of each farm the peasants would produce, produce, produce. For a time they did. But this year the State's failure to ship sufficient goods to the mechanized collectives is producing a new and most ominous "collective strike...
Wobbly Wings. Wings are a characteristic of the Democratic party?the urban Irish-Catholic wing of Tammany Hall and New England; the conservative Protestant wing of the South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing...