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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 8, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 44.

It Does Not Bode Well

By Editor

It Does Not Bode Well.—A recent statement, the truth of which will not be denied, is that “cities everywhere are gaining more rapidly [in population] than rural districts.” In Rhode Island, for instance, 95 per cent of its people are classed as “urban” and five per cent rural. In the United States 35 per cent are city dwellers, and the urban population is rapidly growing. The great nerve centers are becoming congested, and that, too, with not the best material. This abnormal increase in urban population has always worked ill for any country. America will not find it an exception.