The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-10-15
Will ESTABLISH 7
RURAL SCHOOLS
Especial to the Silver STATE, I

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Especial to the Silver state.l =
SPOKANE, WASH, Oct. lS.--Raneh-
ers, business men and educators M
various parts Of the nogthwest ana A.
cific states wilr meet in epokanes,cn
November H., to discuss plaas pro-
pared by the Country Life Commissaon
Of Washington for he establishinsSt
OF redirected rural schools and go
munity. centers. This II the iai1A
step OF . nationwide movsment, -
operative with the state departmG1a
OF education, to teach the fundameut1
principles OF agricultural and douIGor
tic economy and manual and iudrett25a
David Brown, of Spokane, ehsfj.
man Of the state commission, anoof1A
ed by Governor Hay Z year go. n
nounces that the plans prepared N :
model community center includo =
consolidated country school, with
curriculum that will be FAR IN advaiee
Of the present rural school idea ~
teaching the practical things Of mod
ern life.
Primarily, the school i for H.
average boy, whose institutionnl o&6-
cation ends even before he Anisheo IL
secondary school, Mr.. Brown oaE6.
while another purpose Il 70 solve fko
problem, perhaps the greatest bofoso
the country today, Of restoring ~
balance between rural and ux6x1
population. It II . back g ~
farm movement in every sense of III
term. J
"The keynote is that the bsse a.
fense against misfortune h - Riv1
every child in the country such eduec.
tion that it win be able TO earn ~
own living on . piece Of land, {k
necessary, when it reaches it, ~
jority. 1t is also purposed to urge ~
people Of the open country to work
forwarding their economic intereoto ot
in competing with those who aro eA.
ganized, but develop themselves ara
establish real neighborly interest,"
and effective community spirit.
Students of Affairs believe The
time ID at hand when every child -
the United States should learn how
to earn his living ON q plot Of ground.
as well as being taught the prineip1ee
of living. This necessity 10 becoGink
more apparent every day. The entire
country is alive with educationna -
tivity. Ignorance Of faxming -
inertia have become - wtdogrepoA
and 20 heavy - t. eoAneitnke = noc
neglected agriculture and tko doe1fno
of farming Interest," -
Mr. Brown said that the chief sim
of the conference in epokanot dutjme
the week of the third Medicinal ApoiS
show, when growers from nnny d.
tricts in the United States a1a Camn6
are assembled, is to arouse tutG1klEUnt
public sentiment in = plan to naAe
farm life SO attractive that tho -
erage boy and girl win have no dss1ye
to rush to the city, also to a1t1aet
more city dwellers to the faEn-
The country life school plant u de-
tined to occupy 10 acres Of land. It.
will be formed by consulting = mum
Der of schools, taking in IN area Of
SO square miles, taking in aa afse Of
most distant point from the school
about three miles. In addition - tAe
school building there will be oettaeo
for the principal, athletic and plAY-
grounds, proPagating gardenss picnic
groves, models Of good roadn and I'M.
eating plants and orchards and Sam
plots.
"The teachers win be men and wpOur
en- with red blood in thar voiao, -
Mr.. Brown added, "and able 70 aAapt
themselves to the high ideals e :
center and school Of the tyre est
lined, rather than technical edueAtion.
The school win be In charge of
principal, who has been e0neatod Il
practical agricultural a. well = 3D.
vanced school studies. M
Thousands Of letters have beoa -
ceived by the commission from psas-
tically every state in the union, and
we have reasons to believe that thia
rural educational movement viii nees
with favor in the larger cities - we'll
as in the country districts, - every
citizens must be interested II MAIN
tanning the growth and development
|of the country's a9Ticultursl ~
sources"