Word: ruralization
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Henry Ford, among his other projects, plans to sell a total of 20,000,000 cars on the installment plan. To supply the demand which he himself will create, he will establish assembling plants in rural towns so that farmers may throw together a Ford in their spare time during the winter. As a presidential candidate, he would profit immensely by a mailing list of twenty million--even if all of them were debtors; but two things appear to block this ambitious scheme: the saturation point, and Citizen Citroen...
...Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
...enumerate the educable children in the state; to codify the school law so that school trustees "can understand it by reading it"; to establish a course of study such that the " principal of a one-teacher school" will know how to teach all eight grades; to establish an average rural term of seven months; to form at least one hundred additional consolidated schools...
North Carolina has made marked improvement in rural education in the last ten years. The one-room schools are being replaced by consolidated schools. The number of teachers has doubled and the pay of white teachers has risen from an average of $300 to an average of $1,000. The county unit of administration is in large part responsible for the advance...
...three acts by Frank Craven, was admirably handled by the St. James players. Although this week's piece deals with the usual scenes of country life, it is strangely enough, interestingly built and fairly void of the made-to-order villagers who usually are intended to typify the rural life. The Boston Stock Company does not portray theatre country-folk; but goes deeper and gives a sketch of typical country life. In fact, one is not once reminded of the slapstick country rube nor is the comic hired man nor the old skinflint, foiled by the gallantry of the brave...