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expect somebody else to take care . of us—we want old-age pensions.
Now all these things may be fine. And perhaps they, are necea, sary in a twentieth century civilisation.
Bat I submit that oar reliance and dependence upon these economic props have robbed many of oar people of their pride in being Americans and of their sense of duty to America and to their fellow Americans. — I think we need—one—ofthe greatest re-educational campaigns in history 1—Spoken by Robert U. Brown, at West Va. ' Newspaper - Publishers Association, October 26, 1950.
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One week on a 'real farm is about all that’s needed to take the conceit out of a city boy. He soon finds that the country lad knows almost everything he knows about the city—and a great many other things that the city boy never realized, were worth, knowing.
The arbanite’s complacent as. sumption of superioriy is the more pathetic because it’s so naive. Intelligent people who live in rural communities often are better informed than those who dwell in apartment houses. Obviously, the reason is that the rural cousins go to theclty to do their shopping, see the good shows, and at-... _tend the important concerts, while city people go to the country only to kill time or look at nature.
Farmers and small-town folk ..nowadays read metropolitan newspapers, listen to the radio, s£e the current magazines, and buy the latest books. Because they don’t waste so many hours In getting to and from their work and enjoy all the conviences of this electrical age, they have more time for thought and reading—
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