Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-30
MISS JEsslE FIELD ADDRESSES
RURAL LIFE CONFERENCE AT
IOWA STATE COLLEGE.
SAYS GIRLS HAVE HARDER
TIMES THAN MOTHERS
More Temptations Because Of Well
Dressed "YeIIow" Books and "Yel-
low" Movies-Far mers Ignore Town
ship Lines in Considering Com
munity interests.
Special to rimes-Republican.

Ames, June 30.-When Miss Jessie
| Field, an Iowa girl, formerly superin-
| tendent of schools lin Page county, but
now national Y. w. C. A. secretary,
spoke yesterday before the rural life
conference in session at Iowa State
College there was not room enough in
the room to hold the crowd who came
| to hear her and it was necessary to
| adjourn to the largest auditorium on
| the college campus. Miss Field in her
| two talks, explained the work that
is necessary to get young girls inter-
| ested in church work in the country
and the qualities needed in rural lead
| ership
'"Girls today have harder time than
| their mothers did, said Miss Field,
| because there are so many more
temptations and distractions that take
them away from the right things. yell
| low back novels are no longer printed
with yellow backs, but appear in good
| binding along with respectable books
and. in respectable magazines. The
| moving pictures may be just as yellow,
too"
Evils Of country life fall heaviest on
the women and girls. Miss Field told
the conference, so they should be given
more of chance to get happiness and
they should have more of an OPP
portunity to work for the things that
| uplift the community
Mapped Lines Do Not Figure.
Two Of the most notable addresses
on the rural life conference program
NV,
Galpin, Of the University Of Wisconsin,
on The Social Anatomy Of the Coun-
try Community" and 1.-THE Psychology
Of Farming" In these he described his
survey of Wadsworth county. Wiscon-
sin, in which he determined accurately
the natural districts In which the
county was divided by lines Of peopi
who trade in certain towns. He found
that the people in each section traded
at the same stores, went to the same
high schools, used same libraries. and
attended the same church. But the
strange thing about it was that this
district did not at all correspond to
the township boundaries.
Townships were rubber stamped but
the farmers pay no attention to their
| boundary lines" declares Professor
Galpin. These trade districts were
carved out by the individuality Of the
farmers themselves. If we want CO.
operation in schools. churches, and
business, we must first find out these
districts and then cooperate among
people who have common interests"
Dramatic Club Gives Plan.
Rev. C. o. Denies told the confer
ence the story Of his fifteen years at
McClellandtown. Pa, to build up his
community where he now has big
church. the largest rural high school
in Pennsylvania, community lodge
house, and the greatest alfalfa growing
country in the United States.
Back to the Farm" a rural drama
in three acts, was given in the agricul-
tural hall auditorium last evening by
the Iowa State College Dramatic Club
in honor of the visitors at the confer
ence and Of the students Of the sum-
mer session now going on. The play
! deals with the story Of country boy
who, disguised with the country con-
ditions. goes to college. and then with
new inspiration comes back to his
fathers farm to live.