Word: ruralization
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Suddenly last week many a U. S. border storekeeper noticed that his till had become overloaded with Canadian silver, cursed his own stupidity. Shrewd border farmers, it appeared, have been working an ingenious rural silver racket thus...
...Hogg plantation, The Varner, as a memorial to the late Governor Hogg and his wife. A vocational school "for training poor boys and possibly girls, of good family history, sound morals and good scholarship, graduates of South Texas high schools." Varner School would give courses in husbandry and other rural pursuits. There are bequests to 14 Texas universities and colleges. Or, if he likes, Brother Mike may drop the idea of a Varner School, give the whole residue to the University of Texas or to other worthy Texas projects. Last week, Brother Mike was trying to decide...
...being asked what books he is writing, he replied, "That is my malady, you know, I am always writing books." At the present, he continued, he is still working on "A Systematic Source Book in Rural Sociology" in collaboration with C. C. Zimmerman and C. J. Galpin, for the United States Department of Agriculture, the third volume of which will be ready sometime this fall. His book entitled "Contemporary Sociological Theories," published in 1928, has already been translated into German and Chinese, and is now in the process of being translated into Japanese, Czecho-Slovakian, and Yugo-Slavian...
They were well drilled. One party set up the guns, another rushed to the out skirts of the town and cut telephone and telegraph wires. There was no one to oppose them but a few Rural Guards. A burst of machine gun fire sent these scampering. The rest of the men worked feverishly unloading crate after crate of rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Another party of rebels was waiting in Gibara with an ancient wood-burning locomotive and three creaking freight cars. These were run down to a siding and loaded. It was a filibuster to warm the heart...
...Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so successfully that she becomes famed...