PRESENT TRENDS IN POPULATION DISTRIBUTION

Labor and Human Capital,

Five Hundred Families Rehabilitate Themselves

Contents: The Problems --- Food --- Farm Management --- Land --- Tenure --- Livestock --- Marketing --- Nonfarm Employment --- Housing and Sanitation --- Health --- Social and Educational Activities --- Emotional Difficulties --- Administrative Problems --- Appraisals --- Appendix (Table 2. – Loans and Grants Made to Noncommercial Families – Table 3. – Extent of Survey and Classification of Classes – Table 4. – Extent of Services and Improvements–1940 – Program of Work for Beltrami County Non-Commercial Project for 1940

Solving Problems Through Cooperation

Contents: Preliminary --- What One Village Did --- What Others Have Done --- Cooperative Purchasing Services --- Cooperative Marketing Services --- Cooperative Livestock Services --- Cooperative Farm Machinery and Equipment Services --- Cooperative Household Equipment Services --- Special Services --- Cooperation Through Informal Activities --- Conclusion --- Appendix

Ill-Fed, Ill Clothed, Ill Housed -- Five Hundred Families in Need of Help

Contents: Preliminary Observations --- Economic Status --- Housing --- Household Equipment and Conveniences --- Self-Sufficiency --- Health Conditions --- Community and Organizational Participation --- Appendixes (A. Project Areas, by Counties – B. Schedules and Instructions – C. Tables)

The Rural People

Excerpt: By arranging heaps of cold figures in intelligible order, the population expert is able to see what is actually happening to millions of human beings. Thus, dealing with population figures, the authors of this article show the gradual break-down of cultural differences between rural and urban, and native and foreign, groups in this country; the building up of sharper cleavages based on income; the implications of the declining birth rate and the increase in the relative number of older people. They trace the course of migrations to and from farms and discuss the significance of these shifts in population. They show that there are millions of young people backed up on the poorer farms because there are no opportunities for them elsewhere. Finally, the authors emphasize three needs that they believe emerge outstandingly from the situation disclosed by their figures