The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-12
CITIZENS CONFER
ON COUNTRY LIFE
Meeting is to Be Held at Daytona
Beach, January 1924.

In response TO 1nVlIdllOIS lIOlu Lie
Honorable w. \. Sheats, state super
intendent of public instruction, ITALIA
hassee Florida, Mr.. c. r. NJ. Sheppard
county superintendent of public in
struction for Volusia county, DeLand,
Florida, and the Honorable Robert 5.
Holmes president. of the Florida
Forum and Assembly, Daytona Beach,
Florida, and in cooperation with the
Honorable NJ. L. Britain, state super
intendent of schools, Atlanta, Ga, and
the Honorable J. z. Swearingen. state
superintendent of education. Columbia,
South Carolina, the United States Blu
reau of Education makes official an
nouncement of the Federal and Inter
state Citizens Conference on Rural
Education and Country Life 10 be held
at the auditorium at Daytona Beach,
Florida, January 20-24, both inclusive
1921, for the purpose of considering
from the standpoint of craftsmanship
and the public welfare the present
condition and needs of education in
the South Atlantic states and the
means of meeting these needs, and
particularly the means. of fostering
dhlOilS IhS pCOptG DIT &c anu lhCiL
representatives in legislative bodies
and elsewhere, such intelligent inter
est as will result in a more generous
support and wiser control of schools
and other agencies of education.
While this conference is in the main
for the South Atlantic states, the
thousands of winter visitors at Day
tona and Dayton Beach and other
Florida East Coast winter resorts are
extended a cordial and earnest invi-
tation to attend the conference and
AXE part in its deliberations. At the
conference held under the auspices of
the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton at Daytona two years ago, on the
Sunday afternoon when the Hon. w
E. Andrews M. C. Fifth Congressional
district, of Nebraska. addressed the
conference there was an attendance
of over fifteen hundred people, with
over thirty states represented in the
conference, standing room being at
a premium in the largest auditorium
available at that time. Daytona Beach
has a new auditorium with a seating
capacity of over three thousand, and
hence the larger attendance can be
accommodated at the coming confer
'ence.
This is to be a conference not pri-
marily of professional educators, but
rather of citizens-men and women of
affairs who own the schools, pay for
them, ust them and who alone can
make possible any important improve
ments in them. 1t is very important
however, that the chief school officers
of state, county town and city should
be present and ready to take part in
the general discussions of the confer
ence, particularly in the phases of
education in which they are most di-
rectly interested.
Business and professional men, farm
ers and laborers. club women, members
and officers of parent teachers assoc
Citations, ministers, editors, lawyers,
doctors, and all citizens interested in
better schools are extended cordial
invitation to attend the conference
and take part in it's proceedings
Honorable Warren c. Harding,
president elect of the United States
Honorable Joseph Sherman FreIing-
huysen, United States senator from
New Jersey, and the Honorable Will
liam Jennings Bryan, the noted COM
moner, have been invited to deliver
addresses before this conference
President elect and Mrs. Harding and
other distinguished persons will be
cruising along the Florida East Coast
at the time of the conference at Day
tona Beach as houseboat guests of
Senator Frelinghuysen. Invitations
have been extended on behalf of the
citizens of Florida to President elect
Harding and Senator Frelinghuysen
by Honorable Duncan B. Fletcher and
the Honorable Park Trammell, United
states senators from Florida: by the
Honorable Carey l.. Hardee, governor
of Florida, the Honorable w. N
Sheats, state superintendent OF pub
lie instruction, and many other prom
inent citizens of the state The United
states Bureau of Education Joined in
extending cordial and earnest invita-
ton TO these distinguished gentlemen.