The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer

The evidence of competent American witnesses proves that there is, in the United States, notwithstanding its immense agricultural wealth, a Rural Life problem. Here, as elsewher...

In my earlier chapters I traced to the Industrial Revolution in England the origin of that subordination, in the English-speaking countries, of rural to urban interests which fi...

In no way is the contrast between rural and urban civilisation more marked than in the application of the teachings of modern science to their respective industries. Even the mo...

I recently asked a German economist if he could tell me the best books to read upon the problem of rural life in Germany. His reply was: "There are no books, because there is no...

The most radical economic change which history records set in during the last half of the eighteenth century in England, as the result of that remarkable achievement of modern c...

Although somebody has already said something like it, I would say there is a tide in the thoughts of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to action. We make the general claim...

I submit in the following pages a proposition and a proposal--a distinction which an old-country writer of English may, perhaps, be permitted to preserve. The proposition is tha...

Summary of diagnosis and indication of treatment--Chief aim the cooerdination of agencies available for social work in the country--Numerical strength and fine social spirit abr...

The three elements of a rural existence--Mr. Roosevelt's formula: "Better farming, better business, better living"--A comparative analysis of urban and rural business methods sh...

Reasons why the rural problem resulting from urban predominance exists only in English-speaking countries--Neglect of farmer more easily excused in the United States than elsewh...

The origin of rural neglect in English-speaking countries traced to the Industrial Revolution in England--Effect of modern economic changes upon the mutual relations of town and...

The sane emotionalism of American public opinion--Gifford Pinchot as the Apostle of Conservation--His test of national efficiency--Mr. James J. Hill's notable pronouncements upo...

The retarded application of science to agriculture and neglect of agricultural education--Present progress in agricultural education--Full benefit of education must await cooper...

PAGE The subject defined--A reconstruction of rural life in English-speaking communities essential to the progress of Western civilisation--A movement for a new rural civilisati...