The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-11-19
PARMERs' COMMUNITY MEET
INGs HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL


the State Development COMMITTEE
Of: the Board of Trade of Louisvill
knows you are thoroughly interest
ed in the campaign which reaches
~ counties this past summer.
That you may understand hoy
successful these get-together gath
erings were in all portions Of thu
State, the committee is mailing you
under separate cover the october
number of the Board of Trade Jour
nal which contains an account o.
this very unusual campaign.
Yours sincerely,
State Development Committee
JAMES SPEED. Manager
Organization and Success
Cities now ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing words of an editorial in the
COurier-J ournal of August 4-that
prosperous farmers make banks and
business houses prosperous; that
when two blades of grass-in more
practical terms two tons OF hay or
two bushels of corn-are made to
grow where one grew formerly, the
good effect is felt at the bank, in
the business house, as greatly and
as quickly as at the farm house,
and that time and thought and
money devoted by commercial bod
les. BY bankers, by governments, to
betterment of urban as we'll as rural
conditions.
II was in that spirit that the
Louisville Board of Trade and the
Kentucky Bankers Association in
the spring of 1919 decided to send
trained and experienced men from
the State Departments of Agicrul
ture. Schools, Roads and Health and
from the American Red Cross to
talk in rural communities on prob
lems of crop development, school
improvement, home improvement,
public sanitation and community or
ganization-to give elemental in
struction on such subjects as how
Ito keep the land fat" how to
boost the garden and orchard, how
to increase the power and influence
Of the rural church, how to build
siIos, how to develop poultry and
livestock, how to safeguard health
In fas nd hn vol
hamlet. This became known as the
Kentucky Plan of State Develop
ment
Having effected an organization
and established headquarters at the
Louisville Board of Trade. that bo- !
dy and the State Bankers Associa-
ton raised fund mounting into |
thousands of dollars, organized n !
schedule of three-day Farmers /.
Community Meetings, as they came
to be called, and during the sum- !
mer conducted under tent cover for /
ty-twO of these gatherings in coun- !
ties all the way from the Tennessee |
line To the Ohio and from the Big .
Sandy almost to the Mississippi |
They reached on the basis of accu-
rate estimates made at each meet .
ing by the young men who had 4.
charge of the seating total OF &c.
713 people.
Those speakers who made the
complete circuit OF meetings aver
aged 1850 miles by rail and over
900 miles by road and river. They
ferried streams. climbed mountain
pathb bumped over dirt road and
limestone hedges and reached the
most isolated communities.
Now that their campaign is COM
pieted. what have already been the
benefits and what may be expected
in the way of more rapid State
development in the future?
Oas September D. with the schedul
ID meetings still uncompleted. the
Times expressed delight
Committee OF the
Board = of Trade and the Kentucky
Bank ers' Association is an unquali-
led Success" That was on the basis
sf what had been achieved Ii is
certain as anything can be. though,
hat bigger results can be looked
o. .asi TO in the future.
~ the we'd OF a writer in The
Herald, the Kentucky Plan of State
did not look for any
udden change of conviction and
,abit in the rural community, but
lined at a gradual uplift of neigh
'OrhoOd thought and hence of con
Isct. IL proposed to set the rural
to searching for ways
nd means TO help itself.