Word: ruralization
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...cheaper electricity into the homes of the State, into the small shops and small industries, into the farms and the flats." His investigating commission, however, had not been so sanguine of immediate benefits to the Little Fellow. While the development was primarily for the benefit of the domestic and rural consumer, the Commission pointed out that the big industrial users whose demand for power is on a 24-hr. basis would possibly "receive a larger percentage of reduction in rates than will the domestic consumer...
Through two planting seasons the Farm Board has campaigned against the surplus incubus, not only by Legge shows but by circulars to farmers, advertisements in the rural Press, harangues over the radio. Last week James Clifton Stone, new chairman of the Federal Farm Board, made his first excursion to the midWest to continue the "Legge shows," shout again the gospel of crop reduction. He addressed wheat co-operatives in Hutchinson, Kan. and Enid, Okla. As best he could he reiterated Mr. Legge's arguments, used the same threats, the same prayers...
...theoretical social studies, but a few will be taught as before. Professor R. C. Cabot '89 will give his lectures on Human Relations much as in previous years. Professor T. N. Carver will deliver an entirely new course on Social Evolution and Social Progress. New courses are planned on rural sociology, animal sociology, family ethics, and on experimental sociology. At present the lectures for these courses have not all been arranged, as it is hoped to get some scholars from other universities to give them, nor will all the courses be given in the coming academic year, three at least...
Everybody admitted John Durken was a good man, a good farmer, had done a lot for the little rural community of Midland; but nobody liked him. He was closemouthed, closefisted, a hard worker, a hard master. He wanted to better Midland, give it a Methodist church, a bank, a grain elevator; but Midland did not want to be bettered, was not really sorry when one day the express train killed John Durken. Son Bruce came back from his Methodist college to be Midland's pastor. Better educated, more articulate a fanatic than his father, he raised more hell in Midland...
...will find in Three Steeples the profession of my beliefs. ... I have . . . painted a landscape and some people?men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." A long novel, many-charactered, Three Steeples gives a broad, detailed, sympathetic picture of the U. S. Middle-Western rural scene. It is serious, ambitious, not as drab as it sounds...