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OF SOUTH TO
GATHER IN JACKSONVILLE
Fourteenth Annual Conference
viii Be Held on April 10, s
20 and FL

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, March H.
The fourteenth. conference for educs-
ton in the south win be held here
April 10. 20 and 81 The general
theme Of the conference will be the
better adaptation of education to lite
and especially to. the rural life OF
the south--a continuation and inten-
sifcation of the theme of the confer
ence held at Little Rock last April
The first meeting of the conference
win be on Wednesday morning. the
last on Friday evening. thus giving
six general meetings and three after
moons for the round table conferences,
which have become very important
feature of the conference.
One of the general meetings viii be
given to discussion of rural CO.
operation. 1t is expected that the
United States minister to Denmark.
Hon. M. f. Egan, will discuss rural
operation in Denmark. DR.. H. B. FRS
sell will discuss rural cooperation IA
Ireland, as worked out by Sir Hor-
ace Plunkett. DIR. John Lee Coulter
OF the University of Minnesota aid
United States bureau of agricultural
statistics, will discuss rural cooper
alton In the United States
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.
Another meeting will be given to a
discussion Of the redireetion of ele-
mentary education. 1t is expected that
DR.. Paul Ritter the Swiss minister IT,
the United States, viii tell of the
adaptation of elementary education t.
life in Switzerland. Count Moltke. the
Danish minister to the United States.
will tell of the adaptation of educa-
|tion to life in Denmark The Scan
dinavian folk nigh school, which has
done so much for the advanced rural
development of Denmark. Norway,
Sweden and Ffnland. win be described
by DR.. John c. Bay, of Chicago, who
has an intimate knowledge of the work
of these schools. Miss Jessie Fl >lds
superintendent of the pubic schools
Of Page county, Iowa, win discuss the
adaptation Of rural schools to rural
life in that country Miss Fields has
made a national reputation by her WORK
IN this line.
Another meeting will be devoted to
the re-direction of higher education and
it's adaptation to country life. The
phases OF this topic will be discussed by
Chancellor David c. Barrow, Of the Uni
versity OF Georgia; Mr.. Harry Hodgson.
Athens, Ga. and others.
The second morning meeting will be
given to the conference of state superirl-
tendents and the story Of the progress
of pubic education in the states during
the last year There will also be dis
cussion of the progress of school I'M
provement work. of the several states
Besides the annual address or the
president of the conference, Mr. Robert
C. Ogden. there will be special addresses
bv United States Commissioner Elmer
Ellsworth Brown, and other prominent
educators and civilians.
RURAL HOME LIFE
There will be two large round table
conferences on agriculture and one on
better rural home life To these, repre-
sentative farmers from all the southern
states have been invited There VIII
also be round table conferences on tne
city school, on rural cooperation on the
church and rural life, on the press and
y,bat ~ can do TO hekp rural life, on town
and village improvement, and on other
subjects directly connected with the
nroblen of rural uplift. Many southern
educators. statesmen and business men
viii take part in these conferences and
in the programs of the general meetings.
This conference differs from.other ed-
ucational conferences in that 1t is not
wholly or chiefly a teachers association.
IF is made up of men and women of all
professions and all walks of life, who
are interested in the development of this
section, and who believe il can be done
through better education. And all such
are heartily invited to attend and take
part in it's proceedings
! The trip to Jacksonville at this time
will be especially enjoyable. The rail-
roads have annual rates. and the hotel
accommodations viii be ample and the
prices reasonable.