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Show Rural America Losing Youths to Cities Human tides held back in rural areas by lack of employment in in-. in-. duslrial centers from 1932 to 1941 now are flowing cityward at accelerated accel-erated speeds, in the opinion of Dr. A. R. Mangus, department of rural sociology, Ohio State university. Dr. Mangus recently issued a report re-port of a survey made in Ross county coun-ty to find what had happened to the 4,629 young men and women who were between the ages of 18 and 27 vhen the census was taken in April, 1940. The survey made in March, 1942. disclosed that 1,200 of those young men and 800 of the young women left the county in the two years since the census was taken. The survey also showed that industry in-dustry took more young men from the county U;an the number who enlisted en-listed or were inducted into the army. A larger percentage of both young men and women left villages with less than 2,500 population than went from farm homes. |