Word: ruralization
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What becomes of youngsters convicted under the Mann Act for their interstate sex experiments, of prankish urchins who break open a freight car or filch stamps from a rural post office...
...President elected last week, according to the Association's custom of alternating male & female, was a woman: Florence M. Hale, director of rural education in Maine, who succeeded President Willis Anderson Sutton, superintendent of schools in Atlanta, Ga. One of N. E. A.'s vice presidents, she was elected without opposition, prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid...
...Rural Education, President Hale's particular concern, had been chosen one of the chief subjects to be discussed. Some points...
...rural education is not improved, the ambitious will refuse to stay in the country. "Only the stupid will be left. We shall then have accomplished the calamitous job of making the American farmer a peasant." (Governor George Henry Dern of Utah...
...Rural education must provide high school as well as elementary training, else the adolescent farm boy will be deprived of home background during crucial years. It must emphasize cultural training by means of radio, and improve health conditions. (President Hale...