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Editorial discussion contrasts the pride and superficial criteria of city life with the need for practical preparation, rooted desire, and character development when moving to rural communities. 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\nFLIGHT FROM THE CITY?  \n10  \nBy ED WILLOCK   -  \nSKID ROW(Poem)  \n17  \nBy WALTER J.BADO,S.J.-  \nTOWN AND COUNTRY  \n18  \nBy JOHN M.TODD -  \nAN OLD FARMER LIVING  \nIN TOWN VIEWS SPRING(Poem)  \n24  \nBy A.P.CAMPBELL-  \nTHE CATHOLIC COLLEGE  \nAND THE RURAL COMMUNITY  \n-   26  \nBy BRENDAN O'GRADY  -  \n38  \nBOOK REVIEWS -  \nINTEGRITY is published by lay Catholics aeddedicated to the fask of discovering the newsynthesis of RELIGION and LIFE for our fimes.  \nVol.7,No.4  \nJanuary 1953  \nPublished monthly by Integrity Publishing Co.,Inc.,157 East 38th Street,New York 16,N.Y.,MU-5-8125.Edited by Dorothy Dohen.Re-entered as Second Class Matter May 11,1950 at thePost Office in New York,N.Y.under the Actof March 3,1879.All single copies 254each;yearly subscriptions:Domestic  \n$3.00,Canadian $3.50,Foreign $4.00.  \nINTEGRITY is indexed in THE CATHOLIC PERIODICAL INDEX  \nR.C.Hessler452 E.Shadbolt St.Lake Orion,Mich.  \nE D IT O RIA L  \nRAVELING in the subway the other day Igot into conversation with a fellow passen-ger,a young woman who was moving withher husband to a smaller city.Subway con-versations are unusual(except for argumentsover trodden-upon feet)but the woman wasgreatly agitated and upset.She had been tothe smaller city once and as she put it withgreat scorn,\"Their most expensive night-club doesn't even come up to the Taft!”Such  \nis the pride of the New Yorker.  \nWe hope for our social sanity that most people use a moreimportant criterion to decide the excellence of a place to live.Butsometimes(in all charity)we wonder.It is true that for the pastseveral years there has been an increasing number of articleswritten on such subjects as the forward-to-the-land movement,space for family living,a good environment for bringing upchildren,the acquisition of property so that the family can have acertain amount of independence as well as responsibility—but onthese subjects there is still a great deal more to be said.To sayit(or at least a part of it)is the purpose of our Town and Countryissue.  \nWe are trying to approach the subject with an attitude ofChristian realism.Any movement to decentralization,to formingmore humanly-sized communities,to seeing again the values ofrural life,is bound to attract some idealists who are not going totake into account the practical difficulties involved.The seed ofdesire for going back-to-the-land can \"spring up too quickly andin time of difficulty wither because it has no roots.\"And thisexplains those who return to the city after a short,unsuccessfulperiod of country living.It is true that it may not be everyfamily's vocation to leave the city,but more families should be  \nINTEGRITY·1  \ndoing so.The fact that they are not may be due to any number ofreasons;however the reason should not be that they think it re-quires an heroic nature to make such a move.This is not true.In all honesty we must recognize though that it takes consciouseffort to break the spell of the city.One of our writers calls thisprocess \"disenchantment,\"another refers to it as “education.”Itinvolves the enfolding of a vision of Christian living,as well asdeveloping the qualities of strength of character and fexibility.  \nWe emphasize that we are not advocating isolation,butgenuine community living.That implies the re-birth of the villageor the normal-sized town.We are not advocating so much thatall people get themselves farms as that they get themselves home-steads.That means a house with sufficient property for thechildren to play at ease,with room for a garden that will providefood and not be just an ornament.This requirement is generallynot met in the typical suburb where people have gone to get awayfrom the sordidness of the city while retaining its sophistication,and where a flock of chickens would be as out-of-place as a flockof children.  \nThe owning of property is not a matter that is beside thepoint in a discussion of the 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