The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-06
Problems of Rural Life
to Be Discussed in
Richmond.
PRACTICAL MEN
FILL PROGRAM.
Farmers. Business People, Min
listers, Tax Experts, Teachers,
Editors, Have Their Day,
and Must Make 1t Short.
Many Bodies in Session
simultaneously.

'S'' many iCoPtClS lnG NOn1er-
ence for Education In the South, which
VIII be held In Richmond April is to
Is, is different from any gathering
ever held In the country. 1t will be
chtircly In class by itself, consider
ING It's scope. it's personnel and the
manner in which it's delibera tions will
be conducted
me title OF the conference is some-
what of misnomar. 1t is not a
teachers meeting. nor is 1t even n
gathering together of all sorts and
conditions OF educational forces. like
the virginia Educational Conference
held here last November Except In
tho broad, general term that ali new.
Information. all plans for a better way
OF doing old things, all outlook for the
future OF city or a county or state
{: nation, are and must be educa-
cation.
Study Rural Life.
IL VIII be unique in that it Will en-
brace any and all movements loolxipr
10 broadening of life in the country,
10 making the farm more profitabie
TO enriching community interests and
experiences. to keeping the bows and
the girls on the farm by making their
iiVes there more attractive from finar-
cial and sociological standpoints to
perfect scientific ways of marketing
me products of the SOIL to make the
country church and the country school
more or centres of community life
Again, the conference will be unique
in that 1t will eschew the usual series
ef lengthy addresses from prominent
men ana Will seek to get informa ton
from the man in the ileld-the man
VINO Is actually doing the farm demon,
Stration work, who is actively engaged
IN cooperative marketing, who knows
something practical about rural cred
It's, who can talk OF the vital prob
'ems or taxation. who knows the trials
ana triumphs OF the country church.
ann who can tell just how to feed
COWS and build mousetraps a little bet
ter than the fathers of the nation did.
Iiound table conferences are to fiji two
days or tho session. led by men who
are experts in their line to merely set
forth the theme and make suggestions,
The topics Will then be debated ~
ali who care to participate and who
have something to tell of actual expe-@
-iences.
Ten minute speeches will be dis
couraged Oneminute talks will be
welcomed.
Leading Men Coming.
NOT that great men will not be here
Individuals who have shown their
knowledge of the problems of rural
life In the South Will be on hand and
Will set forth their ideas-briefiy.
Among those who have signifed their
purpose TO be present are Robert c.
ogden, OF New York, president of the
conference: DR.. Walter Fl. Page, ambas-
sador extraordinary and minister pien
ipotentiary to the court of st. James;
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan.
iels, Secretary of Agriculture Houston.
General Julien S. Carr, of Durham n.
G.; ID. II. Hill. of Raleigh. n. c.: C. C..
Thach. of Auburn. Ala; Joseph d. Egg
Gieston, president-elect OF the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute; w. E Gonzales
editor of the Columbia State: l.. D.a
Johnson. president OF the Norfolk and
Western Railway; DIR. Wickliffe Rose.
OF the Rockefeller Commission; 10. r.
Noel. former Governor OF Mississippi.
a II. Ford president of the Birmine-
ham Railway, Light and Power Com
pany; John L. McLaurin, former Sem
ator from South Carolina: Theodore H.
Price. of New York; Harvie Jordan
president of the Southern Cotton Aaso-
ciation and the Farmers Gin Compress
and Cotton Company; DR.. s. c. Mitch
ell. president OF the University of South
Carolina; Lawson Purdy. president OF
the Department of Taxes and Assess
ments, New York City: Charles Lee
Raper dean OF the graduate school,
University of North Carolina: a. c.
Pleydell secretary Tax Reform Club.
New York; Alfred E. Holcomb, assist
ant secretary American Telephone and
Telegraph Company; II. l.. Whitfield.
president Industrial Institute and Col
lege, Columbus Miss; DR.. Fl. b. FrIs-
sell. president Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institutes: Walter c. Coop
u
Atlanta; w. E. Morrow, secretary Com
mercial Club OF Louisville: j. l. Foust,
president Normal and Industrial Coll
lege. Greensboro. n. c.; D. B. Johnson,
president Winthrop College. Rock HILL
S. c.; Governors McCreary, of Ken
lucky; Mann. OF Virginia: Craig, OF
North Carolina; Brown. Of Georgia.
Brewer, of Mississippi; ONeal. of Ala
bama: Hooper. of Tennessee; Cruoe, OF
Oklahoma, and Glasscock. OF West Vir-
ginla.
Help Needed for Farm.
The needs of the hour demanded
that this conference be devoted to tha
rural problem. With the population OF
good agricultural counties all over the
South declining. while that OF indus
trial centres is increasing. and the cost
OF living going up. it was felt that the
situation required a financial and so
biological awakening. To make farm
Ing as remunerative and as attractive
rs work in the cities and towns, was
believed TO be the only solution. Max
ing the soil produce more improving
the land, marketing the products TO
the best advantage, helping community
life and making It interesting, wereiff
held to be- the matters that should be
discussed. 4sSs
Out OF 217 leaders who were queried
eos advised that t1le conference for
1919 be devoted to the rural problem: 4.
1852 out of 202 were OF opinion that
the farm: los out OF 200 believed that
another basic need is better markat-
Ing; a04 out OF e1l advised that o.
operative associations be considercd al q
q means for increasing farm wealth
Govern0rs Co-Opexatinx. 81
On February. Is 1918, sGUvernor rdxsissS% &
addressed letter TO tho Goysrnoys e2 Il