The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
BENTON, LOUISIANA THURSDAY MARCH a.


corn and wheat could be seen instead.
I One Of the chief differences we no.
ticed between the Southern and the
Northern farmer was that we pull our
corn In the fall and leave the stalk
standing in the field; while I'M the
North they cut the corn. shock it and
leave it standing in the field all the
winter. We saw field after field full of
shocked corn which had been stand
ing iii the field all winter, apparently
unllurt. a
From this point nothing else Of in
terest attracted our attention until We
reached Washington, abont noon Sat
urday. All Mt once we went into tun-
mel, and when / asked what 1t meant,
Mr.. BYRD said that we were going
:. under Washington; under the Con-
gressf0nal Office building, under the
Congressional Library. and almost un-
der the Capitol building itself. And so
| it wass When we came to light again
we were ON the north side of Washing
ton at the Pennsylvania Depot. This
depot. and rostoiiice combined. is nearly
four hundred yards long and about a
hundred yards wide.
From Washington We went to Bal
timore, Md, and from Baltimore to
Philadelphia. Here we stopped OFF for
two hours and visited the old Inde-
pendeiice Hall. We viewed Washing
toms chair and table, around which
the Colonial Congress gathered to sign
the Declaration Of Independence. From
Philadelphia we went straight to At
lantic City, reaching there about sun
set Saturday evening. This city, as
you all know, IL huilt right on the At
lantic eoast and IL called /" Natures
!'lay Ground because so many people
e., there to play In the sand. on the
beach. and to 70 In swimming, when
the weather isn't cold.
Onr convention meetings were held
1 lii Young's Million Dollar Pier. I'M Inn
nlense structure built out over the At
lantic. mud said to seat ten thousand
people: that Is, the section we occupied.
This building was, filed to capacity
ut nearly every meeting. indicating that
there we're ten thousand or more teach
ers aud superintendents attending this
convention.
| shall not attempt to give you the
entire program of this wonderful meet.
ing. hut the most prominent subject
for discussion was !. The Rural School
/ What Has Been Accomplished? What
| Is tile Solution? .
One OF the most striking remarks ]
heard was that, as teachers I We need
Inspffatioil, Asfdnition and Pers,fra,
tion. That IL we become interested
enough in a question to sweat over II
we need not lie uneasy over the out
come. And that IL pretty good advice
to any one.
Among the most prominent speaker
present was young Theodore Roosevelt
of New York--that IL, the most widel,
known. Practically all OF the college
presidents and state superintendents 0l
the entire nation were present, ant
nearly all had place ON the progrnm
Among the notables from I.Ouisians
we're Superintendent J. M. Quinn, oi
4 New Orleans; Rural Supervisor .Johl
i NJ Foote. Baton Rouge: Sul,erintend
| ent and Mrs. f. III. Fisher, Of Arcadia
I Stricken, Of Concortlia; Corkern, d
Allen; Avery, OF Alexandria. and /;
score OF others.
Wednesday evening we ran up t,
New York City for a little vacation
and sight seeing. After taking on,
street car ride above the ground, on,
ION the ground and one under th,
ground, Mr.. Byrd remarked that ther,
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