PROGRAM
H. ¢. Lull, General Chairman

A. What’s Happening to Rural Life in Kansas? July 6 at 3:00 p. m.
1. Panel members:
James F. Price, Pres., Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Chairman.
James Patton, Pres., National Farmers Union, Denver, Colorado.
Harold Harper, Pres., Kansas Farm Bureau, Beardsley, Kansas.
Glenn Fox, Consumers Cooperative Association, North Kansas City, Mo.

F. H. Guild, Director, Research Division, Legislative Council, Topeka,
Kansas.

E. E. Stonecipher, National Officer, Rural Department, N.E.A., Pittsburg,
Kansas.

Arthur W. Emerson, Division of Information on Soil Conservation, Lin-
coln, Nebraska.

2. Suggested topics:
a. Policy trends and organization in agriculture, industry, and distribution.
b. Population trends.

c. Economic organization including financing farm operations, marketing,
and taxation.

d. Physical conditions emphasizing soil conservation with consideration
for roads, natural resources, floods, droughts, and climate in general.

e. What is happening for the improvement of the rural schools? What
has been accomplished in the last ten years? What is in the process of
being accomplished now? What plans for the future of rural educa-
tion are being made, and what plans should be made?

B. What are the Goals for Rural Life in Kansas? July 6 at 8:00 p. m.
1. Panel members:

Robert N. Bush, Dean, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Chairman.

Mrs. Esther Ekblad Voorhies, Education Work in Kansas Farmers Union,
Salina, Kansas.

M. L. Smith, Head of Extension Division and Rural Education, State Nor-
mal College, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Roy Durham, Social Studies, Manhattan Senior High School, Manhattan,
Kansas.

W. M. Richards, Superintendent of Schools, Emporia, Kansas