The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-06-11


ic Centers.
6. The Community at Play and
the Community at Work.
Z. The Place of the Rural Church
and Its Minister in the Social
Life of the Country People.
s. Who Shall Be the Leader and
Where Shall He Lead?
9. Boys and Girls Clubs as
Economic. Moral and Social
Forces in the Community.
10. Choosing and Training for a
Vocation.
II. The True Worth of the Social
Survey as a Basis for Action in
the Redirection of Rural Life.
Lectures of Rural Education.
The problems Of rural education
are to be discussed by several eX-
perts. DR.. p. P. Claxon will speak
upon these SUBJECTS:
l. Education Needed for the
Farmer and the Farmers Wife.
2. Some Vital Principles in Edu-
cation.
3. Some Suggestions for the I'M
provement of the Rural Schools.
Miss Mabel Carney will deliver a
Sunday address on THE Community
Idea in Country Life and on the
following Monday of the conference
another address on The New Coun-
try School,
Vocational education in the rural
schools will be dealt with in series
of addresses beginning June 20 by
Mrs. Anna /. Burdick, her subjects
being as follows:
I. Vocational Education and Lib
eral Education.
2. Vocational Guidance and OPP
portunties for Vocational Edu-
cation.
4. Appraisal of the Choice of a
Vocation.
). The Farm Boy as Vocational
Problem
6. Occupations Open to Women
and Girls.
7. Systems of Vocational Guild
ance in Operation-in Schools
in Employment.
Boy Scout Lectures.
Because Of the unqueStiOned value
of the Boy Scout and Camp Fire
Girls organizations to the boyhood
and girlhood Of the open country,
and addresses and demonstrations of
the leaders of these great national
movements will be of particular value
to those who attend the rural life
conference.
Ernest Thompson Seton, who
heads the Boy Scout movement, will
conduct model camp and also deliv-
er series of lectures on these sub
jects:
l. Boy Scouts
2. Camp Fire Girls.
g. The Indian as Knew Him.
4. Woodcraft Indians.
B. Wild Animal Life.
Gulick Lectures on Camp Fire Girls.
Dr. Luther H. Gulick, who is ma
tional president of the Camp Fire
| Girls. and his daughter, Miss Frances
Gulick, will give a series Of addresses
relative to woman and her new COM
munity relations and also conduct q
special class for camp fire leaders for
whom there will be series of ad-
dresses on the camp fire girls philos-
ophy The lectures on the social pro-
gram as it relates to WOman's COM
munity relations will be upon the fol-
| lowing subjects:
l. The new relation Of women to
the community. Changes in
home life in a hundred years.
Masculine VS. feminine morality
Woman and team work.
2 Building the new social world
VS.. trying to prevent evil; def
mite organization as necessary in
social life as in building rail
road-examples Canning Clubs.
Spugs The true VS.. the real.
3. Tradition and tradition car
riers. The mother-daughter re-
lation and it's decay. What work
ing together has meant. Femi-
nine tradition-its nature and
significance Cultivating indi-
vidual gifts. Organizing to help
girls VS.. organizing girls to help.
4. The Straight-On Program. A
weekly and annual program by
which one refuses to be diverted
from ones purposes by the peril
of opportunity or the enticement
of temptation.
). Organization of people VS.. or
ganization of activities. Genius
and its development. Growth
by iration-utilizing genius
Some definite line of organiza-
llOL~-I IlIhluS, GU.
The task of the new generation.
General Information.
Iowa State College is centrally To-
Gated at Ames and may be reached
conveniently by steam and interur-
ban railway. The campus is one of
the most spacious and beautiful in
America and offers delightful oppor-
tunities for summer study and recre-
alton.
Lectures and conferences will be
held in Agricultural Hall, but all the
other building, including the general
library, will be open to conference
members. Alumni Hall, the home of
the Christian Associations, and it's
reading rooms, game rooms, parlors
and assembly rooms will also be at
their free disposal. So will the ten
mis- courts and athletic fields, and the
great gymnasium and it's swimming
pool.
No Fees Are Charged.
There are no fees for attendance
upon the conference. The college
gives this service without charge and