The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1909-11-13
APPLE SHOW TO
DISCUSS SCHOOLS
Especial to Silver State.)

SPOKANE, Wash, Nov 13.-Neces-
sity of fundamentally redirecting the
rural schools of the United States, to
develop them as expressive of the best
cooperation of all the social and eco
nomic forces that make for the welfare
of the communities, will be e~mphasiz-
ed at the Country Life convention in
connection with the second national
apple show in Spokane, which opens
Monday.
Speakers, representing various parts
of the United States, will show that
everywhere there is a demand for edu-
cation which has relation to living, al
SO that the schools should express the
daily life and that in the rural dis
tricts they should educate by means of
agriculture and country life subjects.
1t is believed that the farming popu-
lation is ready and willing to support
better schools as soon as the people
can be assured that the educational
system viii be changed in such a way
as to impart practical knowledge.
The keynote of the convention is
that the best defense against misfor-
tune is to give every child in the
try such education that it will be able
to make its own living on a. piece of
land, if necessary, when it reaches its
majority. To accomplish this it is ex-
pected the government will be urged
to establish q nationwide extension
work, in some way cooperative with
the various states to reach the mature
person as well as the youth.
1t is likely that the views of the
convention win be embodied in q men,
orial to congress for the enlargement
of the bureau Of education so that it
will become a clearing house in gather
ing and distributing knowledge OF
benefit to the farmers, and investigat-
ing conditions, also urging it to be
supported in such a way that it will
adequately represent the educational
activities of the nation. In this event a
representative delegation may be sent
to Washington in the interest of an
appropriation to accomplish these ends.
1t is also purposed to launch a cam
paign urging the people Of the open
country to work together, not merely
with the view toward forwarding their
economic interests and in competing
with those who are organized, but to
develop themselves and to establish a
real neighborly interest and effective
community spirit.
"We believe that the time has come
when every child in America should be
taught how to make its living on a
piece Of land, as well as the principles
Of living" said David Brown, chair.
man of the Country Life committee,
which has charge of the convention.
"This necessity is becoming more ap.
parent every day. The entire country
is alive with educational activity,
and, while this may be good, it needs
to be directed and correlated, so that
all agencies viii be more or less fede.
rated.
"None OF the sources Of profit in
which there is opportunity in the New
England, eastern, middlewestern, south.
ern and northwestern states is open at
once to the man or woman who has
never had any experience in farming
and other forms Of agriculture. Knowl
edge Of processes soils and the par
ticular needs of the crops put into
the ground is as essential to success
full farming as it is in the production
of anything else. Added to that should
be the ability to market the product.
in the proper way and at the right
time.
"We believe it is generally conced
ed by men who know all about farming
that the open country is not the so
luton Of the overerowded city-ths
out Of work problem. These men tel
us that the poor and ignorant canno
be turned into farmers by the mere
process Of placing them on farms, ant
that unless they nave beer instructed