Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-06-18
COUNTRY LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Good Roads Important Factor Ir
Child Improvement.


following policy will secure for
the Country Life Department
the best results.
As the question of local trans
portation is probably the most
basic factor in the mprovement
Of child welfare, the Country
Life Department Will Ia Ike up the
education Of the child from the
standpoint Of benefits derived
from improved roads. No other
system in the interest of Of child
welfare can be developed OF i'm
proved without the systematic
Improvement Of road conditions.
Therefore, the first and larg-
est work to be undertaken by
the Country Life Department is
to educate the people OF the rur-
al communities in regard to their
need for improved roads and to
cooperate in the furtherance of
other measures to secure i'm
proved road conditions in the
rural districts. Then the euu-
cational and social advantages
which are SO necessary in pro
noting child welfare in the rur-
al districts can be realized to the
fullest extent.
| In working out this policy it
is expedient that whatever is
done along the lines of road i'm
provcment by the National Con
yreSs of Mothers be done under
the direction Of the Country Life
Department. Then this depart
iment can work in cooperation
with the United States Office of
| Public Roads in it's work for i'm
proved road conditions in the
rural districts
In order that there may be a
we'll defined organization IN the
|Country Life Department, it will
be best for the chairman of the
Country Life Department to ap-
point a state chairman for each
state of the Union.
The duties Of the state chair
man will be to cooperate with
the chairman Of the Country life
Department in carrying out the
above policy to secure better
road conditions in the rural com
| munitles, so that It will be pos
! sible to develop other systems of
ichild Ne.fafr.
/ After improved roads nave
been established in d community,
then It becomes the duty of each
state chairman to develop under
the chairman Of the Country
Life Department such other sys-
TENS of child welfare as may
seem eGp,1Gl@ n
BY carrying out this policy,
tbs Country Life Department
will be able TO secure for the
children Of the rural districts
those social. intellectual and NOR
, al advantages which are so ne
cesSary to the progress of civil
lzatiOn.
| Me a.e d.:Si"nrs Of securing
iNOur cooperation ana ass iSIanct
in instructlng the chi'dren anC
the teachers in the work of this
Office in its efforts to secure i'm
proved roads in the rural dis
trIcts.
The plan which has been form
ulated Is along q st, mes IN.
Government has Just appointed
Miss Luna f. BigloW as lee
turer % ala this work It seem
desirable during the spring ant
summer month that she devOt
he. time - the Institutes. con
Vcntlnn>. ana >uHIfntI StI!lui
whir!! enrol! considerable num-
berS of rural school teachers
If the tilne could be allotted t
Miss Biglow. she would give tw
or three Illustrated talks or lee
tures, and give to the teacher
ero some ,e.s tractiC..l. sGgga.
tions and outlins for thelI schbt
! work
v lie purpose nf these lecture
: is to show the relation of ba
road conditions to the economi
. and social life Of the people, e:
peC:aIIE 10 the education Of chil(
ren III the rural districts, an
= to awaken and arouse an inter
Y est in regard to improved roa
Q conditions, These Icc.ures wi
A. NOT 5a.i i'm any, ,yaI with III