The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-12
FOR BETERMENTS
SPEAKERS AT NATIONAL CON
FERENCE OF CHARITIES DIS
cUSS BIG QUESTIONS.
TO Make Farm Life Attaraetive--Re-
distribution Of Land Religious
Cuty--7esererat'on of the
Negro.


Boston, June 11th-"lf We give
properly protected and sufficiently nu-
merous amusement resorts for rural
districts we may succeed i'll oFercom-
ing the wild desire of thousands Of
country boys and girls to rush to the
large cities" said Mrs, ellie Under
Eraels, hartman of the Committee
on Amusements and Vacation Re-
sources for Working Girls of New
York City, in an address before the
National Conference of Charities and
Correction here 3his evening.
Mrs. Tsraels annunced the conc.u-
sion OF numerous Investigators to be
that it is the desire to give express.
sion to the spirit of youth and JOY
that furnishes the lur of the city 10
the unsophisticated country youth.
She purposed that the school houses
Of the country be made natural cen.
tres of recreation, where there nigh
be dancing. dramatic clubs. presenta
tons OF historical pageants and such
other forms Of recreation as would
provide for the spirit of the youth.
LAND DISTRIBUTION.
Boston, June 11th-In an address
on the Religion of the Land" by
the Rev. Warren H. Wilson of New
York, superintendent of the Depart
nent of Church and Community Life
Of the Board OF Home Missions Of the
members of the National Conference
# Charities and Correction in SEES
sion here. were told that the redis-
-ribution OF farm land now going on
throughout the United States has de
finite religious effects.
THE danger in the ownership oi
land. said the speaker, lis religious
because it means a shrinkage Of the
rural population with undiminished
The tillage OF the soil I
IS done today by one-third of the PEG
Die of The country and more is Pre- |
iuced than when it was done by nine |
y per cent of the people. This has
in effect in smaller country churches,
n the abandonment Of many churches
n the country, ana in condemning
he divisions in churches. It. destroys
much Of religious organization. As
he number of farmers grow less, the
BURDEN laid upon them is proportions
tely greater. The farmers arc
brought to their knees. agriculture
a religious occupation
THE real prosperity of the farme
5 produced only when the farmer is
moral and religious man. Agricul
ure is the one occupation which can.
lot be permanently performed by q
,ad man or by atheists. The farmer
must needs be a reyerdht, a devoui
md good man. Unless agriculture
S The basis of the social and religious
community life, it is not satisfying to
he farmer himself. Only with re
igious sanction can he and his child
en- be enlisted permanently In tine
Producing OF food and raw material
or people of this whole country. The
uryiying farmers will be scientific
men. They will use the learning pro
'ided by the universities but the key
o the problem IS possessed by the
country church 1t is not enough for
he universities TO produce the science
" which the farmer shall till the son
[ is greater thing to produce the
pirit by which in the country com.
nnnity that knowledge snail be used
nd only the country church can pro
luce that spirit"