The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-19
BUILDING RURAL
LIFE IS NATIONS
GREAT PROBLEM
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group seems to be leader. The com
fprehensivencss of the program is be-
You'd all precedent in my experience
and observation 1t is no harhazard
affair. but goes in ordered procession
through all the allied subjects.
The Nations Problem.
THE largest problem that faces
American civilization to-day lies in
building up its country life. No mat
re" what attitude some of us may have
toward the tusks the United States
bears. we are obliged to come to this.
we lave just passed through a period
OF organization Of the machinery Of
the modern wcrld-.-niaking the city and
tile iailroad--and the country has been
left out. Now we must bald it up, and
that is the crrand that brings us here
We all know that In the coming CEN
turtles, as in the past the character and
tho vision of American life will come
from the soil.
> marvel, therefore, at the wisdom
with which the schedule of our meet
INKS was laid out
I'm our carly days the characteristic
OF the people of the United States was
individualism Great az this was for
the cause of democracy, 1t rested upon
a false economic basis A mans home
cannot be his castle for he ia
mutually linked az his brothers. keep
or, whether he will or no A larger
vision and larger liberty and larger
opportunity now comes on us as the
task for our working hours. We must
organize in the country.
Another thing. and one that must
nave Impressed a stranger from a diff
ferent land, suddenly dropped among
u.s. is the unselhshness with which
everything has been done and dis
cussed. 7 defy any one to find ao
many intelligent seIf-supportinE men
and women anywhere. TO sit for three
days discussing problems for the good
OF all. never once admitting the ex-
ploitation Of anybody for any pur-
pose.
Most Thrilling Chapter.
Inc HISTORIAN of the progress or
democracy could not write more
thrilling chapter than the events OF the
past ten or fifteen years taking az
The cue the note OF the Conference for
Education in the South. We began
with the school and the child. and we
END with them. of course. but every
step has been toward a widening Dem
ocratic ideal-nothing lcss--to see how
VIC could teach one another. DR.
Knapp let "A food OF light on all this
problem. am not sure but that he
WAS the greatest schoolmaster of the
age.
so our discussions have come reru-
larly with no cccentricities. but With
a broadening application of all that CO.
operation means. To till the soil to
train the children, to make the home
Work OF continuous human service
count as one of the greatest priyi-
leges that can fall to the lot OF man
we have worked on a program 10
bring to pass the dream of the fathers
that our republic shall be and rep,stn
the hope OF tho world
with that thought, and with in
mite gratitude from the very bottom
OF my heart TO every one Of Won ana
with growing hope I declare the six
teenth Conference for Education in tho
South adjourned"
Need County Lenders.
The county superintendent ia tho
Keynote of effective schools for The
farming population, said ]. f. Swear
lnsen' SUPERINTENDENT of Education OF
south Carolina, the first speaker of tho
evening The work cannot be salts
factorily done until tho office of tha
county superintendent is dicnified and
strengthened In his opinion. He said
temporary teachers. who go into the
PROFESSION Tor few months or year
education. VI
w. K Tate, supervisor of rural
schools of South Carolina, said his
state was the smallest. most modest
and most unobtrusive of the sisterbood
IN inc South, at which the audience
smiled. The rural school problem there
he SAID, is being worked out throneh |
a system of taxation which paws a |
bonus for good schools The Ieris1a
lure mas done much and local efforts
nave been stimulated. Local officials
nave been helped by the publication
OF schoolhouse plans. Salaries have
,,l
ton agents have helped.
Short Speeches.
introducing Il. j. Coates, State Su- !
perVisor in Kentucky. DR.. Page said.
IN spite Of the fact that we are meet |
ing I'm Richmond, in the oratorical |
zone we have shown hero that a man |
can tell more in ten minutes abouf !
what has been done than he could I'm |
Two hours and forty minutes about |
what he is going to do" This referred |
10 the bell which rang every speaker |
down at the end of his ten minutes |
even in the middle OF sentences.
Mr.. Coates did not think greater
yields the only desirable end THO |
raising of more corn has sometimes |
merely made the man the greater hing
Beside. prosperity does not always |
Keep people on the farm, for under
these circumstances many of them
move to town.
and In Alabama was discussed by n. |
w. walker and j. S. Thomas. the re- |
spective professors Of secondary edu- |
catlon In the universities OF these |
War Hookworm.
me story of the fight against hook |
worm in the South was told BY Dr !
Wicki1fc Rose, secretary of the Rookie /
lclier Sanitary Commission, and DIR |
- >, A.. Terrell. the State agent in North |
carolina IL was stated that about 20 |
per cent OF those examined have been
!! ound infected--however. these inves-
LEGATIONS have been conducted in those |
localities previously supposed to CON |
tain the greatest amount OF infection.
me problem is not local one. hut |
exists in all tropical and semi tropical |
ll,ands-in.. India. Egypt. In Central and |