Home and Farm Ownership ...The University, 1923 - 207 sivua |
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acres agricultural areas average Baldwin townships bank account savings borrow Branson building and loan California cash incomes census cent Chatham county church membership coöperative marketing cotton and tobacco cotton county country church country regions credit unions crops cultivated Denmark dollars dwellings economic Edgecombe county Elwood Mead England fact farm colony farm land Farm Loan farm owners farm ownership farm tenants Federal Gibson county home and farm home ownership home tenancy home-owning homeless household houses illiteracy improvements increase industrial interest labor lack Land Bank land tax landless landlords live loan associations mill villages million mortgage negro North Carolina Club organized paid payments population Postal Savings System problem productive purchase ratio rent Scotland county sell settlers South South Dakota state-aid tenant farmers United wealth white croppers white farm white renters white tenants Williams townships
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Sivu 150 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Sivu 14 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Sivu 186 - Act to assist returned soldiers in settling upon the land and to increase agricultural production." The essential features of this act are the bestowal of agricultural credit when needed by soldiers in any part of the Dominion and the gift of Dominion land in western Canada.
Sivu 150 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Sivu 5 - I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
Sivu 74 - The children number 101 and sixty of these are children of school ages. The dwellings they live in are usually of board and timber construction, a few are old log houses, the left-over remains of former days. Six of them let in the weather through the roofs or the floors and walls. Twenty have 203 window lights out and ten have shutters off. In more than half of these dwellings it is possible to study astronomy through the holes in the roof and geology through the cracks in the floor.
Sivu 6 - Weimar ? Material success is good, but only as the necessary preliminary of better things. The measure of a nation's true success is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the spiritual...
Sivu 164 - By renewable lease at a rental of 4 per cent on the capital value of the land, the lease being for 66 years with perpetual right of renewal.
Sivu 43 - ... citizen? The problem of the day is to check these three currents that are already pouring against the bulwarks of our peace and prosperity. To anchor the farmer to his land and the villager to his home; to enable him to till the land under equal conditions and to hold that home in independence; to save with his hands the just proportion of his labor, that he may sow in content and reap in justice, — this is what we need. The danger of the day is centralization, its salvation diffusion. Cut...
Sivu 192 - The legislature believes that land settlement is a problem of great importance to the welfare of all the people of the state of California and for that reason through this particular act endeavors to improve the general economic and social conditions of agricultural settlers within the state and of the people of the state in general.