Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room schoolhouse, like the outdoor privy, is vanishing,* but half the youngsters in the U.S. (13 million of them) still go to rural schools.. What kind of education are they getting? After a two-year look-around, a nine-man commission (headed by the National Education Association's Howard Dawson, the University of Chicago's Floyd Reeves) last week reported: "In thousands of school districts the education offered is not good enough-even for yesterday...
...commission found that both rural schoolchildren and their taxpaying parents are being "robbed." The larceny is not confined to poor communities. In fact, it is more apt to be an "extravagance" of wealthier districts, where for a variety of reasons (vested tax interests, local pride, standpattism) schools are not put where they should be, or consolidated when a merger would give everybody better schooling. West Virginia generally provides better rural education than richer Illinois, say the commissioners; some of the nation's best districts (e.g., in Fayette County, Ky.) and some of the worst (e.g., in Harlan County...
Ministers. In 1900, the U.S. had 137 clergymen per 100,000 citizens. Today the ratio has fallen to approximately 104. Ministers' salaries average less than $2,000 (much less in rural areas), for which the average congregation gets two Sunday sermons, an adult Sunday-school class, personal consultation, active leadership in civic organizations and youth groups...
...study in 1926 of the education of 105,000 clergymen in the Roman Catholic Church, 17 white Protestant denominations and in three Negro bodies, the typical Roman Catholic clergyman has had a better educational preparation for his responsibilities than the Protestant minister." Since 1926, the training of rural ministers has shown "marked improvement...
...Daylight Saving Time was back, mostly in the urban East-many rural towns and 32 whole states in the South and West still refused to have any truck with...