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EDUCATION BE
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(By Associated Press)
CHICO. Cal, Dec. 11.—Many phases]
of the problem of rural education and
country life are to be discussed at a
conference beginning tomorrow. Ed
ueators from neighboring states were
expected to be present at the con
ference, which is a part of the na
tion wide campaign of the federal
bureau of education for better rural
school and the improvement of coun
try life.
School officials of California, Wash
ington and Oregon will outline the
program iii addresses tomorrow-' at I
the opening sessions. The delegates]
will be welcomed by Chico city of
ficials and representatives of the Chi
co state normal school where the con-^
ference will be held. Among those
who are expected to respond to the
addresses of welcome are Mrs. Joseph
ine Preston, of Columbia, state super
intendent of public instruction of
Washington, and John Edward Bray
of Carson City, state superintendent
of public instruction of Nevada.
Dr. Margaret Shellenberger Me
Naught, state commissioner of ele
mentary schools, Sacramento, will ad
vocate a term of not less than 160 days
in every rural school at the. opening
Seasoh. An address on consolidation
Of rural schools was to be delivered
by J. H. Ackerman, president of the
state normal school at Monmouth.
Oregon. Mrs. Preston was to outline
the advantages of “Theacher's home
and demonstration farm of five or
more acres as a part of the school
property and as an illustration in
parctical home-making and scientific
farming.”
Mrs. May Dexter Henshall, state li
brary organizer, Sacramento, is ex
pected to discuss the use of public
schools as library distributing cent
ers. Community organization w’as to
be discussed by A. P. Shibley of El
Centro. Imperial county, superintend
ent of schools. Adaptation of
courses of study to rural schools was
to be the subject of an address by
Prof. C. L. Phelps of San Joe state
normal school, and Edwin R Snyder
of Sacramento, state commissioner of
vocational education, was to outline
a plan of high school education for
all country boys and girls without
severing home ties.
Miscellaneous problems in rural ed
ucation and country life will be dis
ocussed at the sessions. Among the
subjects will be play, a state program
for the improvement of country life
through the rural schools, landscape
improvement of rural school grounds,
the work of the Women’s Christian j
Temperance Union for better rural
schools and country life improve-!
ment, conservation of rural life with
special reference to the health of the
rural child, university extention
teaching for rural dwellers, the value
of the children's health conferences
as agencies in rural life betterment,
the work of the California federation
of women’s clubs for better rural
schools and rural life progress, co
operative buying and selling as
agencies in rural life progress.
(By Associated Press)
SOLOMONSVILL.E, Arizona, Dec. 11
—Houses built in part from the house
hold debris of some race, the history
of which no one has any knowledge is
a peculiar feature of this village. Frag
ments of pottery, very numerous sn
certain localities, become mixed in
the adobe clay of the large sun dried
bricks of which the houses are con
structed, serving as a sort of binder.
Thus, any householder may stand by
the walls of his domicile and with nis
pocket knife can cut pieces of beau
tlfully decorated and glazed pottery.''
fashioned perhaps, thousands of years
ago. Also, figuring as a common stone
•n the low foundation it is quite poss
ible to find one or more of the rude
mortars in which some prehistoric
housewife ground her corn.
The water jar of a majority o'" the
families here is one of the ancient
ollas, made of pottery, some over t>"0
feet in height, hundreds of which lijve
been dug up in perfect condition in
this valley. It is well established
that from the Rio Gila those undent
residents took water for irrigation,
fts traces of their canals have been
found by modern builders of the same
utility. Above this village the foun
dation walls of their communal houses
extend for several miles, thus prompt
ing the first Mexican settlers to call
the region Ciudad Vieja, meaning an
ancient village.
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