Some Problems of Rural Life: Good Roads, Traveling Libraries, Consolidation of Schools, Transportation of Scholars - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: ... lectual pursuit and requires business and mental ability of a high order. The growth of our city population is made up largely from the best products of the farms, while our rural population is eceiviug but few additions from the outside. While there should be a constant interchange between town and country to secure the best health of the body politic, yet where much strength is given by the country and but little received from the city, either the doctor must interpose his services or else there may be a call for the undertaker. The tenant class, which is rapidly forming our rural population, is composed at present of both white and colored people. Many of the better class of white tenants are moving to factory villages to secure what seems to be more remunerative employment. They are dazzled by the handling of a greater amount of cash, and are forgetful, or else fail to, see the fact that one hundred dollars in the hands of a factory operative with everything to purchase cannot go so far in supplying the needs as one-half that amount in the hands of a farmer whose daily needs are mostly supplied by farm products. Nor do they seem to appreciate that still more important fact that the growth of their higher nature which cannot be measured in terms of currency is more or less stunted by factory walls. The small amounts received each week for the labor of their boys and girls is largely blood money, for which is sacrificed the intellectual development of those whom they hold dearest. The percentage of the children in factory communities attending school is very much smaller than that in agricultural districts. Many of the white tenants, while nominally farmers, have but little interest in their business. They try to get everything possible out of the rente...
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