Word: urbanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Redfield declared that the big city pattern, to be thoroughly understood, should be studied in the light of its opposite pole-the primitive tribe-and of intermediate societies such as peasants. Peasants may seem to be primitive in their simple, stable way of life but they have definite urban connections if they can read, vote, go to school, use machines and send their produce to markets...
Noticeably skimpy is the recent crop of farm novels. Maine contributes a lone example: Marguerite Mclntire's Free and Clear (Farrar & Rinehart, $2.50), a drowsy tale about hardworking Ma and Pa Chadbourne, their two urban-bent children who turn out all right after...
...relief problem to speak of existed in rural Monroe County. Nevertheless, the State gave Monroe $44.43 per month per relief case. The county paid out only $21.17 per case, made $23.26 on each. Urban Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) with the highest living cost in the State, got $599 per case per month, spent $24.40 per case, had a deficit of $18.41. In 1936, 30 counties ended the year with a surplus from unnecessary relief money, while Lucas County (Toledo) had a deficit of $300,000, Cuyahoga...
With expedients exhausted, Toledo's deficit last week reached $800,000. Cleveland had only a few thousand dollars to pay for relief until Jan. 1, said it needed $1,000,000. The urban centres pleaded for a special meeting of the Legislature, but Republican Governor John W. Bricker, elected on a platform pledging "adequate relief," insisted that other means should be found first...
Although it is "net true of all urban populations, life in the city is often mechanical and scidcial." And "even a part of the candle of life is sacrificed for an experience psychologyically as miscraple as if is economically said to be slammous...