THE COUNTRY CHURCH, THE COUNTRY SCHOOL, THE COUNTRY HOME
The Country Church, The Country School, The Country Home Practical Problems Presented for North Dakota's Country Life Conference EVERYBODY, everywhere, every day in North Dakota talks agriculture....
...North Dakota's social problems, therefore, are very largely rural problems...
...Is Consolidation Feasible in North Dakota...
...There will be papers and discussions, but the state's agricultural experts believe that emphasis should be placed briefly upon showing the farmers how to do the thing that is talked about...
...This "First Annual North Dakota Country Life Conference" will meet December 17-20, 1912...
...The bare recital of the topics for consideration indicates that we are in the beginnings of a comprehensive and democratic movement to ruralize the country school and the country church and to communize the rural community...
...From the official call for the conference we quote the following program: "Country School Day" The Country Schoolhouse as a Social Center How can the Rural School be Ruralized...
...If not, what Can Be Done to Make it Efficient...
...Country Church and Civic Improvement Day" The Church as a Community Builder The Press, the Library and the Lecture Course as forces of civic improvement A Country Church social in the evening preceded by a country orchestra concert, a moving picture show and a humorous lecture "Country Home and Country Club Day" The Home as the Greatest Factor in Society Concrete illustrations of an up-to-date modern country home The Farmers' Club and its peculiar function At six o'clock a family style supper A Farmers' Club program, the chief feature of which will be a debate...
...Everybody in the state is concerned, directly or indirectly, in the character and efficiency of the country school, the country church and the country home...
...Perhaps no other state in the union is so distinctively a rural state...
...It will be held in conjunction with the North Dakota boys and girls institute, thus giving the people who attend an opportunity to see what is being done in North Dakota to keep the boy and girl on the farm...
...The School Teacher as a Community Leader School Grounds and Schoolhouse Architecture The Playground Movement in Rural Communities The Country Literary Society The Country School as a Farm Laboratory for Seed Testing Milk and Butter Testing, Soils, etc...
...What To Do is to be supplemented with How To Do...
...First of all demonstration work...
...The Country School as a Clearing House for the Exchange of Farmers' opinions in Matters of National, State, County and Community Interest The Country School as a Community Fair Building The Country School as a Neighborhood Center The Country Schoolhouse as a Reference Library The Country Schoolhouse as a Health Center The Country Schoolhouse as a Local Art Gallery The Country Schoolhouse as a Recreation Center A genuine rural entertainment will close the festivities of Country School day...
...WHAT will be done at this conference...
...Is the Country School the Efficient Force it was Meant to Be...
...The all-absorbing topic of discussion in "Hiawatha's Land of the Dacotahs" is the crop situation and the conditions of farm life...
...Recognizing this, the agricultural extension department of the state's Agricultural College has taken the lead in planning a country life conference, and lending its expert assistance in making it of practical service to the people...
...The problems to be considered at this conference suggest the widening range of farmers' interests and needs...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 47
