Show tr SURVEY A f 1 NATION GETS 13 OFFICIAL OKEH r 4 Orders Copies Maps of Rural Religious Communities r K March CS Convinced S. Convinced d the ne he sun sun-C surveys of or tho the Interchurch movement in rural America are Jre Sea heh ch accuracy as to constitute a site scientific contribution to presY pres- pres Y i Information on tho the country cho h. h tho the department of ot agriculture contracted to bu buy a a. copy of or the ther q r map of ot each of or the 2368 2765 68 co coun- coun unto un- un to b be surveyed b by the Interchurch b Is county map will be the first church and community let 11 ever attempted in this country countr h b h graph when hen completed wilt will show location of or ever every church tho the resi- resi ces of or ministers the circuits on onIch ont t fich Ich thc they trL cJ In n reaching their theirs d es cs s tho the parish lines of or er a every and the community boun boundaries aries I tho graph areas of or denominational petition arc aro discovered as aswell well as which arc aro untouched by an any reous rc- rc ous US ministration Rural Failure io o survey survoy to dato date has revealed the that tho average country church no sense reach reaching inS inS' tho the community ls s. ministering only o a a. percentage ta e ea a a certain creed or sect and also it there arc are vcr very few feia buildings in inich ich provision has been made mado for social and recreational needs of oC young people The TIle survey sunoy has that more than one half the tho than pastors are aro receiving less Ting wage ase asee be e maps are made in tho the field b by surveyor checked up in int t national office and traced b by cx- cx To date sut o surveys s 's s on onI I counties have hac been completed and than ISO finished maps arc avail avail- In n more than 2000 of oC tho 2965 Is actually under ties the BUnC survey i Distribution of or Maps Map K Galpin who decided the tile govern o nt t t. t should have havo the maps was tordy for for- dy a a. professor proCessor in the tho Wisconsin Wisconsinite ite e school of agriculture an and Is the thc theor hor or r of or many man books and pamphlets pioneer in the thc stud study of or farm life farm communities lIe He was par- par laxly attracted 1 by y the maps in that manner of oC dividing dl up a a. cr cour COUI u v lo normal communities instead ad f t I ships or other arbitrary ana fixed shaped Into the kind of or work he doing for tor the ro government L Ide de from rom their use b by the the- govern govern- nt t t the rural maps will be bo dis- dis ted d among pastors all over oyer the thet Sited t ted d States In the tho areas concerned lie e C basis of 0 programs 5 to reconstruct II S 'S rural Mural church In AmericaS America |