Fifty Million Strong: Or Our Rural Reserve
- ISBN-10
- 1330042603
- ISBN-13
- 9781330042601
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 166
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-12
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Ernest Irving Antrim
Description
Excerpt from Fifty Million Strong: Or Our Rural Reserve The Country Life movement is one of the most remarkable and significant facts of our day. It seems hardly credible that the first national commission was appointed in 1908. That any movement in so brief a time should have gripped the thought of the leaders of American life and should have created so extensive and high grade a literature upon the subject, is itself as fine a tribute to the importance of the work as could be imagined. The rural population of the United States includes over one-half of the entire population. We include, in the term "rural," villages and towns not exceeding twenty-five hundred in population. The thirteenth census revealed the following facts: That in only six of the forty-eight states was there a decrease in the rural population; eight states increased over fifty per cent; six between thirty and fifty per cent; twelve between twenty and thirty per cent; ten between ten and twenty per cent, and only sixteen of the entire number of states increased less than ten per cent. The value of farm property for the same period increased over one hundred per cent and aggregates at the present time more than forty billions of dollars. By common consent, the church is at the very heart of the rural life movement. If a body of men had been appointed to exalt the relation of the church to rural community life, they could not possibly have done it more effectively than it was done by the report of the first national commission on the rural life movement. That report is notable in the remarkable way in which it magnifies the church in its relation to the betterment of rural community life. The movement has gripped our educational and constructive leaders in a way scarcely paralleled in so brief a period of time. It is the beginning of a new and better day for the rural life of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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