The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-29
BIG COUNTRY LIFE
PROGRAM WILL Be
GIVEN A NORMAL
Conference viii Be Addressed
by Prominent Educators
and viii Continue From
June q to July 3.

One. of the important features Of the
summer school at the West Tennessee
state Normal from June 2S to July 8
win be a conference on Country Life
and Country Life Problems" The need
Of this work has long been felt in the
educational field and its Importance
places II in the foreground in the train
ing oil young teachers who are to take
an active part In the training Of the
children in the rural section.
Normal schools come in direct con-
tact with the ruIal section through the
hundreds Of teachers they train and
send out to train the youths, and since
this is true, a more desirable ihstitu-
ton could hardly be found to carry on
this work than the normals.
This conference will be conducted by
some Of the South's leading educators,
and from all reports a large number will
be in attendance. 1t is not merely
planned for school teachers, II is
planned for everybody who is interested
in rural life and the better develop
ment of rural life and its many prob
lens.
The big day will be Friday, June 2I,
when some important measures will be
discussed by such men as Cows. Rob
erts, of Tennessee, and Brough, of Ar
Kansas and Bruce R. Payne, president
OF the Peabody college, and state SUI
perintendent of Tennessee. This will
be known as Development day, and
some Unusual things are expected to be
developed and started.
In addition to the regular program,
other persons will participate in this
conference, and every meeting will be
in charge of persons who know country
life and some of the problems connect
ed Herewith.
The conference will begin about s
O'Clock in the afternoon and last until
after 6. 1t will be held in the open air.
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basket dinner served on the grounds.
Dinner cay be brought at the domestic
science department Of the Normal
school.
The following program will be car
ried out during this conference:
Monday, June 23-George r. James,
VIM. r, Moore Dry Goods company,
Memphis, Importance of Country Life
Tuesday, June s4.-Dr. e, R. Lloyd,
director Memphis bureau Of farm de-
yelopment Some Country Life Prob
Wednesday, June &c. P. J. Moo.
ney, editor Commercial Appeal, 1.-THE
Public Press and Country Life"
Thursday, June 26.Dr. Bruce r
Payne president Peabody college, Nash
VILE, Tenn. What Education Owes to
Friday. June 27-All-day rally: bas-
ket dinner on grounds. Speakers, Gov,
Brough, Of Arkansas; Gov. Roberts, OF
Tennessee; Albert II. Williams, state
superintendent of Tennessee, and 9TH
ers, to be announced later.
Monday, June S0-Bolton Smith, Mem
phis, Community Service in the Rural
Section" ..
Tuesday, July 1-P. P. Claxton, Unit
ed States commissioner of education,
Washington, D. c., and George Morris,
editor Of The Memphis News Scimitar
Some Broader Aspects of Rural Edu-
cation"
Wednesday, July 2-Prof. Charles A
Keffer, director extension work in Ten
nessee, What the Extension Work Is
Doing for the Rural Section"
Thursday, July 3-Rev. C.. Fl. Will
hanson, pastor First Presbyteriar
church, Memphis, "How the Church
Aids the Rural Life"
There will be doctors on this program
who will discuss rural development
along their lines and Suggest methods
Of Improvement, and other divisions o
special Importance to the rural section