The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-21
FOLLOW Up PLANS
FOR COOP GRAFTON
Committees of Educational Con
ference to Be Formed in
Each State.

Definite plans looking To TANGIBLE
results from the deliberations OF the
Conference for Education in the South,
which met in Richmond last week,
were announced Yesterday by the exc
outive committee 1t is intended TO
follow up many OF the suggestions
made. Further, the forces set in mo-
ton at the recent conference will be
kept organized and will be strength
ened for the future.
The executive committee now pro
poses to form an organization in each
Southern State to keep alive tho CO.
operative spirit between farmers and
business men y farmers COMMITTEES
Viii be named at once, With a member
In each State, and business mon g
committee will follow along the same
line. These committeeman will keep
In touch With the people Interested
in the things discussed IN the con
ference, so that information may be
dissemina ted, a working basis brought
into permanent use, and tho various
clements combined for instant com =
munication at any time
Home Stntr Conferences
The result viii he that in each state
there viii be throe men--thc present
member OF the executive committee or
the Conference for Education In the
south who is iii every ease. an cdu-
Gator, the business mems committee
man and the farmers Committeeman.
again, this sort Of organization will
have the effect OF stimulating what has
already been proposed ia several
States--confercnces such AZ the npc
lust held i'll Richmond For instanc.
Virginia might form a conference com
posed OF farmers, business men. preach
ers, tax students, school pcoplc. 10
Work out the problems of co-operatiou
In r.1f.A
Such a meeting might he co-ordinatcd
Win the existing Virginia educational
conference, which brings together all
S"hool workers in the state every wear.
of u might meet a, other times
rcnch Children Marketing.
Another tangible and most inuort.nt
result OF the late meeting viii he tho
formation in many places Of market
ing associations in the Dubli, schools
'hiiuren VIII be encouraged In rural
communities To Join forces in selling.
what they produce, For Instance In
some SCHOOLS ii viii "c suggested that
me students start with chickens. feed
ing them along scientific lines. housi,,
1nem properly, study egg production
ana selection ot reproducing stool,
The eggs would hc brought TO mo
nsiehborhood school AZ specified ti,nos
:" De marketed 10 the best advantage
This is the logical extension Of the
ideas AS d'monst yatiou work has
been extended 10 the public schools 80
co-opTrativc marketing VIII he extend
ed the--e. And Just as Il has been found
much easier Ia reach tho boy and Girl
with modern mcthocs of production
than to reach the father ana mother
so ~ is expected 10 he nsier to reach
mem with modern methods of sale
Another phase OF mis- work VIII b,
the development IN the child mind of
me spirit oi CO operation. as opposed
10 individualstic competitive IDEAS
After the Hattie.
Or &. Buurlnnc. executive sec
Fetary of the Conference for Educa-
iion IN tho South. who has lived anc
dreamed It's progress FOR six month.
past and who succeeded In devcIoping
MS plans in every detail will return
TO ms once N Washington this morn.
Ing RE looked and felt Yesterday like
q gladiator after q battle
He works all the year round ~ thi.
JOB and has already head full o
plans FOR the conference next year
The place of meeting viii To dete,Ir,i,,
90 later on By The executive commit
tee
The best proof OF how IN, speech O.
Colonel Henry Exau. or Dallas. tex
AT the opening session or the confer
"nce Wednesday night, impressed hi
hearers. is 10 be found in the fact tina
UP 10 yesterday afternoon he had re
celVed twenty three separate invita-
mons from heads of as many institu
tlons 10 deliver the same address lie
lore their student bodies. These prcs
idents and deans heard his address
ahd want their own people 10 hear 4