Word: ruralization
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Carefully Mr. Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...
...From Edmonton, Alberta, the Alberta Government's Traveling Clinic, only one of its kind, was preparing to travel north to isolated hamlets. Two doctors, two dentists, four nurses will be in the party. Medical facilities are so scant in rural Canada that patients bring their own beds to the clinic. Last year the clinic staff performed 1,408 tonsil and adenoids operations, extracted 2,775 teeth...
...churchmembers acted for four nights in a luxurious pageant called "The Church Triumphant," conceived by Helen L. Willcox of Pasadena. Its prelude, six episodes and finale showed scenes of various religious significance, including the dedication of Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine (George L. Behrens of Columbus) and a modern rural picnic. The whole symbolized the value of church unity...
Because liquor smugglers use rural roads, make no reports, the U. S. Government last week began to dicker with the Canadian Government for a major change in this sievelike border arrangement. What the U. S. wanted was to "close" the whole border, increase the ports of entry to 600, require international wayfarers to cross the line only through such ports. Every open country road would be barricaded. The increased number of entry ports?one about every five miles? would not cause any real inconvenience to those, like farmers, whose daily affairs take them back and forth across the border...
...civil authorities have done their best job in the field of public health. A medical school, in which the lecturers are Haitians, is flourishing and many clinics and hospitals have been established in rural districts...