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Show 25 comparable with that citizens Republic, of the of the groups of of whose sons leading m8J1y and daughters have made their way into recog nized leadership in business, industry, and the professions. It is difficult to speak with He restraint of this man or his achievements. conauered a huge continent of rich soil for civIlization. He carried to the frontier an e2.ger desire for education, the democratic im He has helped pulse, nd the leer of the Lord. He h2.s been the fight his country's battles. be dr-ock of represent2.ti ve government. 25 L. H. Bailey and Kenyon Butterfield 8JJ1ong the "purists" 30th of then had in their country-life thinl:ers served on the Country were and 'writers. Life COL'Jnission, subsequent writings they adhered closely basic tenets laid down by that recapitulated briefly as The follows. Anericn society had been, These body. the and to the tenets may be rural element in and continued to be, the most essential of all elements in the establisent and preservation of of this rush a it strong, Americs to the government must join YJ01..l1d no voids in their lives. nigrate areas, longer need to the the country. the move The country rather than to cities. Because alarming In order to do with farmers and various revitalizing conditions in in the curb the recent end necessary to was of rural and democratic America. stable, this, professions in country such that rurcl people to the object cities to fill certain was encouraging A movement to keep .urban rural people of urbanites so-called back-to-the-land movement, prople to to lral had already |
