Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-03-18
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1911
Great international Congress- Of Farm
Women
Especial correspondence)

OOlOIduO springs, OOlO.-OTySUdllZd-
ton of public sentiment in favor of
better home life on the farm and the
organization of the forces for its at
tainment, is the OBJECT of the Con-
gress of Farm Women to be held in
Colorado Springs during the week of
October 10th, in connection with the
international Dry Farming Congress
Better Farming has been the slo-
gan of the Dry Farming Congress
since its organization, and tremen-
dous amount of work has been done
along this line. Now new feature
is presenting itself, and S'better and
more attractive home life'' has been
added to the problems which are de-
handing their earnest attention.
Theodore Roosevelt, that remark
able leader of men, while President
of the United States, appointed the
American Country Life Commission
an unofficial body of men who devot-
ed several months to investigating
the conditions upon the American
farm. In submitting the report of
that Commission to Congress, the
president created new line of thought
for the people of this great country
by placing before the Congress a few
significant and Enthusiastically
forceful statements as to the neces-
sity for concerted and continued eff
fort for the uplift of American farm
home life.
1.-THE men and women on the farms
stand for what is fundamentally best
nd in
life said he. Crop growing is the
essential foundation Of successful
country life, butt is no less essen
tial that the farmer and his wife and
children should lead the right kind
of lives. One of the chief difficulties
in giving to the life on the farm all
the dignity, desirability and business
results that the farmers might easily
give to their vocation if they chose,
is the failure of country life, as it
exists, to satisfy the higher social and
intellectual aspirations of the coun-
try people.
During the few years of its working
existence the Dry Farming Congress
has labored to establish higher aims
on the part of farmers in the produc-
ton of better quality of crops, better
acreage results, the use of better seed
and implements, as well as better
business methods brief, the mix
ture OF brains with soil.
The Dry Farming Congress mem
bership numbering as it does nearly
fourteen thousand of the most pro-
gressive farmers, professors, expert
mentalists, and the heads of educa-
tional institutions, as well as, in
many nations, the actual executive
heads of the agricultural departments,
has felt more and more each year
that the .'back to the farm move
ment so much discussed must be or
ganized and encouraged, and that
public sentiment must be focused in
an effective manner upon the various
phases of the subject.
With this in mind, there were a
number of notable addresses upon
the subject of rural education and
agricultural college and extension
work before the Fifth International
Dry Farming Congress at Spokane
last fall, and, with a determination
to lead in the wonderful uplift move
ment already under way, the Inter
national Governors of the Congress.
cooperating with the Colorado Board
of Control of the Sixth Congress, has
authorized the calling of the very
first international convention of farm
women ever held in America, if not
in the world.
This convention, while an auxiliary
to the Dry Farming Congress, is to
be known as The International Con-
gress of Farm Women, and the Initial
session will convene in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, Monday evening,
October 10th. If letters already re-
ceived from many of the leading edu-
cational workers of the states, east
and west. and from many women
leaders, are a criterion. the first Con-
gress of Farm Women will be a bril-
liant and notable affair, and viii be a
great impetus TO the already remark
able Dry Farming Congress move
ment.
The home, while the castle of man,
is the dominion of the wife and moth
err The farm, while producing the
food for the nation, also produces the
good, red blood, the strong, healthy
men and women for the city. 1t is
now proposed to encourage a distinct