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Show 14 I\easured American farmer had shown steady progress t:'1e closed, Report dis- the by historical standards, his quest for economic and social betterment. s t.and ar by conter:porary however, According commercially risks that were of t.at.e held by energy that affairs. ar-e as absence of , a..lJ. women, and the before is farmer of their bearing were an and lack of , expends and de- on the in conditions possibilities ,9 •• this unfortunate inexact knowl edge continuous soil unr ewar-d.i ng life adequate public others and 2.griculture is social the ty·, entitled to be falu-loan system, equitable of the it the cornrnun i, farming conditions a110 possibil- the greatest problem, 2I'-y • reions, inaeQuate public arduous the the of poor h Lghway s labor, Eut factors Among them f'arrne r-s " as I,:easured disadvantaged were ••• far short are ities within their r-ur-al, and urban the by study, profitable number of a the the assumes, open country There s he shared ds farT!1ers to as labor and for the the n2.tion's the pressed. not .... in the one could be in schools erosion, shortage of farm faced by farm health supervision. that had to be carried to resolved solution, and Butterfield are seen by this student as being Progres sives on the basis that the political views which they._did exress, on such basic domestic issues as conservation, restraining of trade, and rral revitalization, coincided almost exactly with those of Theodore Roosevelt. Page's icentification as a Progressive should be virtually uncon The World's Work reflected a thoroughgoing tested. Rooseveltian orientation 9Renort of t!1e on nearly every political issue. CO!'11":1ission on Country Life, p. 14. |
