The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-08-03
DR.. LOUISE STANLEY, EcONOM
les BUREAU

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Dr. Louise Stanley, Dean of Home
Economics, University Of Missouri.
Columbia, Missouri has been selec-
ted by Secretary H G. Wallace To
head the newly established Bureau
of Home Economies Of the United
States Department OF Agriculture,
it was announced today by Acting
Secretary c. w. Pugsley.. She will
assume her new duties September /.
At present, DR.. Stanley is in charge
of the Home Economics Department
of the University of Missouri, where
she has filled successive positions
since 1907 as instructor, assistant
professor, associate professor. and
dean of home economics, during
which time she has been instru-
mental in developing that depart
Fment there. A years leave Of absence
for the federal board of vocational
education, studying home economics
methods in the South and Pacific
States gave her wide acquaintance
and experience in vocational educa-
tional work. She was delegate to
the International Conference OIL
Home Economics Teaching, Client,
Belgium, in 1913 and is at present
the chairman of the Legislative
Committee of American Home Eco
nomics Association. DR.. Stanley was
born in Nashville, Tenn, where she
was reared on farm and where she
graduated from the University Va
Nashville. She was on the board of
education of the University of Chi
cago (1906) and in 1907 received her
M. A. degree at Columbia UNIVERSE
ty She was awarded the Phi. D. de-
gree at Yale in 1911. THE Nation is
to be congratulated in securing DIR
Stanley to head the newly created
Bureau of Home Economics. There
is no more important work than that
devoted especially to the homes OF
the country. We are all highly graft
fed that DR.. Stanley is coming with
us" said Acting Secretary c. w
Pugsley in commenting on the ap-
pointment. Up until July /, 1928, the
work in home economics in the de
partment was in connection with the
States Relations Service where the
function of the office was largely
that of furnishing information and
assistance to extension workers. In
his last annual report Secretary
Wallace said that "the establish
ment Of a separate Bureau of Home
Economics, with a technical and ex
perienced woman as chief, should
enable the work to be extended in
that field and to render better serv-
ice to the workers in the farm home
and rural community as we'll as
make it possible to begin research
work in new fields which must be
covered and explored scientifically
II the department is to render the
greatest service to the home max.
err"
| HELD WHEAT CONFERENCE
! Reduction of wheat acreage, d.
versified farming and CO. operative
marketing are the keynotes of the
resolutions adopted by the Wheat
Producers Conference of the South
west at Wichita, July Is. The south
western wheat growers have put an
organization into the field that is
going to work for immediate results,
they declare. as well as for methods
to prevent distress to wheat growers
in future years. At the close of the
sessions it was stated that vigorous
carrying out of the conferences
program would go long way to-
ward putting the wheat industry on
q sound basis before snow flies this
year" The Wheat Producers Con-
ference of the Southwest is COM
pOS6Q Oh representatives from the
hard wheat states of Kansas, Colo
RADIO, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska and
Oklahoma. These states represent
8,2S6,OO0 acres now in wheat mex
cess of the acreage Of 1913, or eight
elevenths of the total acreage of the
United States in excess of that of
1918 No mention of government
price fixing Is made in the resolu-
tons. AS one delegate pointed out,
1.-THE subject of political action was
not mentioned in the debate. The
hard wheat men know that their on
" salvation Is by economic means"
The features that stood out most
prominently in the discussions were,
summer following in the hard wheat
states. reduced acreage, improved
cultural methods on the reduced
acreage, diversified crops and rails
ing Of home food necessities, and
recognition that the increasing
world output Of wheat meant disap-
pearance Of O world market for Am
erican wheat at profitable price.
In the order OF their adoption. the
resolutions state that present wheat
prices make future normal" pro.
duction impossible. Farmers, bank
ers and nillers are called on to 60
operate to solve the problem Fifty
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