Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter, read in all Catholic pulpits, heavily emphasized the Church's approval of the rural life for the protection of family ties and as a shield against city distractions. The bishops made the point that Quebec still had 10,000,000 acres of tillable, uncultivated soil, enough to establish 500 parishes of 200 families each. Said they: "Many of our young people would find there the living space that would allow them to make a home." Colonization was not a temporary palliative. "This is a permanent task ... to fill the gaps caused by emigration. ... It is also important...
Whither Younger Sons? How much heed the young men of Quebec would give to the plea was questionable. Once predominantly rural, Quebec is now (next to Ontario) the most urban province.* Almost 95% of its 155,000 farmers own their farms. But they cannot afford to buy new land in established areas for their many sons because 1) land prices have risen and 2) mechanization requires larger and thus more costly farms. Hence some 180,000 unmarried sons between 15 and 30 are currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city...
...census: rural, 1,222,198;urban...
Lost: famed Helen Keller's rural Connecticut home, by fire. One wall was left standing. Miss Keller was expected back from abroad shortly before Christmas...
...Pantagraph's present publisher, six-foot Loring "Bud" Merwin, is a fourth generation descendant of old Jesse Fell. Many newsmen consider his prairie daily one of the best-run small papers (circ. 32,000) in the U.S. For its wealthy rural readers, the Pantagraph runs more farm news than Prairie Farmer, backs its "clean and consistent record of internationalism" with full coverage of world affairs. (Adlai Stevenson, another Fell descendant and minority stockholder of the Pantagraph, is a U.S. Alternate Delegate to U.N.) Politically the Pantagraph has never hesitated to shuck its normal Republicanism when a Democrat looked better...