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...your information, the average rate of this company is 23.8% lower than the national average rate. This company's residential rates are lower than the national average residential rate, its industrial power rates are among the lowest in the nation and its rural rates are among the lowest offered anywhere...
...used to bicycle through the Irish countryside as a representative of the Irish Agricultural Cooperative Society, establishing banks, forming creamery and poultry groups. His now defunct magazine, the Irish Statesman (TIME, May 12), preached rural teamplay. He says his efforts at home, successful, are at an end. In the U. S. he plans to preach from lecture-platforms during a six-months tour...
...legal and political institutions were made for rural, pioneer, agricultural societies," the Dean said. "Formerly there were justices of the peace in every town to give advice and administer justice to parties they probably already knew personally. It was a perfectly possible system for a farming community. But during only a generation, problems of very recent date have arisen with the growth of our cities. And although municipal court systems, as in Chicago, have been established to meet them and have been partially successful, still they have been only partially so because (1) they work so well that people crowd...
...Moreover, we have been thinking in terms of a rural, pioneer, and agricultural society. We have not realized that there are other alternatives for society than absolute individualism or absolute socialism. In the pioneer days everybody was ultra individualistic, with a disrespect for order and obedience because he did not want to be thus limited and saw no necessity for that supervision. The pioneer was independent, self-reliant, and versatile: we can be neither. Yet we continue to think on that old basis and say. 'Let everybody look out for themselves.' But a change has taken place from the system...
...best acts, wrote it down hoping to sell a few books to friends (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929). When not trouping he lives in Scarsdale, N. Y., with his three daughters. Test copies of the new Ex-Lax campaign included the straw-munching Specialist's accounts of a rural traffic policeman who took Ex-Lax, be- came healthy, smiled so much he was made an official; the yarn of a dentist who did no business, gave Ex-Lax away, made people so healthy they all smiled, became aware of poor teeth. But while credit for creating the magnificent Specialist goes...