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Show DR. LH. BAILEY I ON RURAL LIFE Salt Lake Jan IS At Assemblv hall last night ae the second lecture in the .T. 1 course covering "Vocations "Vo-cations and Industries." IJr Liberty H. Bailey, dean of the school of agri culture of Cornell unHersity for many years, presented the subject, "Agriculture "Agricul-ture as a Vocation " J From a long life of practical experience, experi-ence, Dr. Bailey presented a word t-anorama of the conditions surrounding surround-ing rural life today, and the widespread wide-spread movements under way to bring rural civilization and advantages up to the same standard as those of the cities. Giving special attention to the work of the country life coramls- sion appointed by Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt during his presidency, the speaker speak-er ga e the history of the movement in this country toward the betterment of conditions on the f.irms and making mak-ing farm life as attractive and elevating ele-vating as possible The lecturer divided the people oi the world Into two classes those with urban minds, who think and act according ac-cording to city standards, and those with rural minds, who lle In what is now called "the open country." The passage of the agricultural college col-lege extension work bill by concTefla last Mav. which brings to the five million farmB of the United States the best information on scientific farming, farm-ing, was characterized as the greatest piece of educational legislation ever passed by the national law-making body. In closing the lecturer advis ed that every man who contemplated undertaking farming as a vocation first spend a full year on a farm meeting actual conditions before making mak-ing a decision. |