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Show CD. STEINER, head of agricultural department of University of Utah, who speaks at conference of school executives. . At. i SCHOOL EXECUTIVES " JITIEWERBKE C. D. Steiner of University of Utah Among Speakers at Lincoln, Neb. LIXCOLX, Neb., Fob. 22. Leading school executives and teachers of rural S'-hools of central and weMern sTates, who l-eiian a conference here today, were almost unanimous in deploring the tact that t rained tea e hers caniot be kept io rcral schools in many instances longer than a year or two. Higher salaries in other "oecupatious were iven as one reason. The main cause f t the trouble, however, was declared by the s leakers at tonight . 's meet ins to be marriae. The educators said they were not ''ursine a chance against niatinp, but what they wished to impress upon the rural teachers was to make their professional work the first cousi ie ration. ra-tion. ' ' Ilr. Francis. O. 'Vlarh, dean of the vocational vo-cational school of Berea college, Herea, j Ky., tohl of the. handicaps in the mountain moun-tain diFtrict? of Kentucky. jle said the people were ' ' eacer for education, but had their own ideas of how to acquire ac-quire it." President E. A. Sutherland of the Nashville (Tenn.) Agricultural institute insti-tute emphasized the need of education that will hold the boys and girls on the farm. Other sppakprs at today 's session were C. D. Steiner, head of the agr-ci,!-tural department of the I'niversitv of Utah, Salt Lake City; S. T. Sherry of the government service, of Winnebago. Neh.; J. A. Shoemaker, director of .nra education in Kansas, and Mary "'. Bradford, Brad-ford, Denver, superintendent of Colorado Colo-rado schools. School officials . and tca-'hers from fourteen central, southern and western states are attending the conference. |