Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming to give more attention to the rural and small village schools, which serve 47% of the children of the Nation. It is significant that less than 70% of these children average to be in attendance on any school day, and that there is a tendency to leave them in charge of undertrained and underpaid teachers. The advent of good roads should do much to improve these conditions. The old one-room country school such as I attended ought to give way to the consolidated school with a modern building and an adequate teaching force...
Highways. Roads are essential to rural welfare; the Democrat have aided road building...
Will Rogers as a rural Senator in Washington...
...people. In the British Isles there is one physician to every 1,087 people; and just prior to the World War there was in the countries of Middle Europe one physician to every 2,000 to 2,500 people. There seems to be a shortage of physicians in rural districts...
Less imaginative students of business, however, do not put too much stock in this boycott story. They point out that Montgomery Ward & Co. has thoroughly overhauled its merchandising policies, has been making a vigorous campaign for new business by competing with dealers in rural towns on the basis of improved service and cut prices...