Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-26
COUNTRY LIFE CONGRESS
First Annual Session at Spokane No
vember % to 20 to Be an
Educational One.

Seven days will be devoted to prob
lens of improving conditions in rural
districts at the first annual session of
the National Country Life Commission
at Spokane, Wash, November 30 to 20.
Governor Marion E. Hay of Washing
ton will formally open the congress, and
executive officers of Oregon, Idaho,
Montana and other states will partiei-
pate. There will be speakers of ma
tional reputation.
The keynote of the meeting will be-
What can do to better conditions in
the rural districts?'' and it will be
demonstrated that the farm question is
broader than it is commonly consid-
cred, also that it involves the welfare
of the capitalist, business man and wage
Garner fully as much as it does the
farmer. David Brown, chairman of the
country life committee of the Spokane
Chamber of Commerce and head of the
Washington state commission, an
nounces this tentative program for the
congress-:
Governor S Day, November 23-The
congress will be organized and commit
tees selected for the sessions to follow.
Farm Home Day.
Farm Home Day, November 24-The
National Grange will have charge of a
large portion of the program and sew
eral of its leaders will deliver addresses.
The chief question for discussion will
be on how to make the farm home the
best in the world.
Country School Day, November Is
Prominent educators and officers of the
National Grange will take up plans for
the redirection of the rural school. The
rural social center also will be dis
cussed by workers of wide experience.
Rural Church and Y. NJ. C. A. Day,
November 26-There will be mass meet
ings, addresses by national and inter
national workers in the movement, and
definite plans will be outlined for the
development and improvement of the
work of these organizations.
Producers Day, November 27-The
agricultural colleges and farmers of the
country have been invited to take the
lead. The questions will be considered
from the standpoint of the man on the
farm and how he can obtain the best
returns from his work.
transportation Day, November 2s-
Advocates of good roads will speak on
the subject of ad-making and there
will be short addresses by prominent
railroad officials.
Market Day.
Market Day, November 29-Organiza-
tions interested in improving conditions
surrounding the marketing of farm
products, from the standpoint of the
producer as well as the consumer, will
be represented by speakers. An effort
will be made to show how important
it is that those engaged in the bust
ness of farming may be able to depend
with some assurance on a fair profit,
based upon the average cost of pro-
duction. The necessity of the farmer
handling his affairs on business basis,
figuring the cost of his own time and
labor, the same as any other business
man, also will be brought out.
we HOW are arranging Tor Jhe at
tendance of prominent speakers" Mr.
Brown said, "and we also expect to
have with us some of the foremost edu-
Gators in the country. H. B. Dewey,
state superintendent of schools in
Washington, is cooperating with us to
make the Country School Day program
a success. All the sessions are open
to farm women.n