The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-07-02
THE WELFARE CONFERENCE.
WORKERS WILL CONFER TO.
GETHER FOR COMMON
GOOD.
Tentative Programme for Statewide
Meeting in Columbia August and
Provides for Real Discussions.
Rather Than Lengthy Addresses, on
Emergent Problems.

Columbia, June 27.-The execu
i've committee OF the conference fol
the Common Good. which will b,
held In Columbia August 6 and 7, ha.
arranged a tentative program which
Is now In process of completion. The
committee has decided to confine the
scope OF the programme to a few
important questions. which have been
most frequently suggested as demand
ins immediate consideration. 1t will
be noted from this programme that
these will be presented In conference
form rather than through lengthy
addresses by few people.
The committee has been fortunate
In securing acceptances of their in
vitations from Clarence f. Poe, the
editor OF the Progressive Farmer,
who OF all men In the South has made
perhaps the most thorough study OF
agricultural cooperation. Mr.. Poe's
address will sound the keynote for
the Conference on Cooperation. The
committee also considers itself fortu-
nato In receiving a prompt acceptance
from p. p. Claxton. United States
commissioner OF education. DIR. Clax-
ton is a Southerner whose educational
work has been done In the South. He
brings to his larger task as the head
OF the public school system of the
United States a broad comprehension
OF world movements I'm education. His
contribution to the conference will
alone justly attendance. John f..
Swearingen. State superintendent of
education. has accepted an invitation
TO discuss the one-mill State tax as an
element In the development of a State
school system. Other invitations have
been extended to distinguished men In
South Carolina and in other States to
participate In the conference. Fur
ther announcements will be made as
TO the development of the programme.
IL Will be noted that the programme is
educational only In the larger mean
Ing OF that term. Ii will discuss sub
jects OF universal meaning to South
Carolinians.
The tentative programme for the
State Conference for the Common
Good. To be held In Columbia August
sand z. Is as follows:
August g. Wednesday, $50 TO q p. m.
General iopic. Cooperation in Mar
setting"
4. Presidents $ statement (hve min
utes).
2. A general statement OF the CO.
operation problem In the South. Clar-
ence f. Poe. Raleigh $50 minutes).
q. Two five-minute talks discussing
loss to farmers on account of poor
marketing (ten minutes).
4. Creating a Home Market for
Home Products" by a representative
OF the Housewives league and pro-
progressive grocer (2O minutes).
s. Two short accounts OF successful
experiments In. cooperative marketing
(2o minutes).
6. Marketing the Corn Crop" (l5
minutes).
Z. Marketing the Cotton Crop" $50
minutes).
"Wednesday Evening. $50 To II.
General topic. Permanent Homes
tor Our People"
1. Home Ownership and Good
Fnrming' Go minutes).
2. Home Ownership and Health"
tten minutes).
3. Home Ownership and the
School" (ten minutes).
4. "Home Ownership and the
Church" (ten minutes).
8. "A Plan for Aiding the Tenant
Farmer To Buy Land" $50 minutes).
6. "A plan to Assist MIL Workers
To Buy Homes
7. General discussion.
August Z. Thursday. o To II a. I'M.
4. Special conferences Of farmers
and business men on cooperation.
IL to- 1-Geneial topic. "Educa-
tlon."
I. school support" (a) "a state
i-mill Tax. Its Apportlonment and
Use" J. f.. Swearingen G5 minutes).
2. Getting the Child In School" "
(a) Unused Possibilities Under Ex-
istlng Laws" tten mInutes); (b) "Ne-
oessity for School Census" (hve min
utes); (c) "a Compulsory Attendance
Law" (l5 mlnutes'. (d) Child Labor
and School Attendance" $50 minutes).
.. Building n Teaching Profession
la South Carolina" U5 minutes).
4. safeguarding the Health OF the
School child" ESQ minutes).
g. General discussion.
Thursday Afternoon. $50 To q.
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