| Show des desirable rable rural kural situations to end movement from farm to city by DR DIL GEORGE H THOMAS chicago IS ill aliat on every country road is a boy beating his way to tho the IT city cit y that accounts for one of dour our rural pr problems agriculture if still america Arneri cals biggest busi neep but a majority of 0 americana now live in cities contra contrary ry to popular opinion n tho the smallest rural corn cord tho the last census decade our littlest cst muni mummies ties grer in population during COMMIT communities niiles villages and towns up t to 0 2500 inhabitants are not populating our cities there is no n to explain the fact st andrews church F farm arm ridge bidge in lasallo county is an olamp example of means of fostering a desirable rural situation farm ridge is not not only in the sense that it has a center beven even a village it isa is a community of religious and sod social al lifee life no store astoreno st oreno no post office no town iown hall ny no movie movie no wayside barbecue one stands on the church land a pro property petty two city blocks 1011 long at one end is tho the church aahl athletic betic field at the ot other heris is the church cemetery looking north south cast and west irest over the fertile rolling prairie i e lie he sees see a farmhouse the only one in ili ight fight a mile away here lives the nearest p parishioner parishioner arish ioner st andrews is ia belf supporting but appearances belle every traditional feature of the cli church near tile home p which is the Di meaning caning of the word parish on most any overage occasion the churchyard is packed with cars tile the rectory lawn swarms with children from a few weeks old to boys bos and beautiful non lipstick girls in all years cars of the teens the frIc asce one gets tit at the parish dinner is not cold storage chicken 1 after dinner the church is packed for services and there are some outside me who cannot get in this country church is a unique esperia dent station for solving a national rural problem it has been a success a against handicaps for it was established more than seventy five years ago one marker in the little cemetery in the churchyard hears bears the inscription Il horace lorace beardsley born kent connecticut 1 1 |
