Rourland, of Washington, D.C., secretary of the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, reviewed the rural credits system of German farmers and explained how community life has been developed there by community cooperation. "The source of Germany's power," said Dr. Bourland, "is in her compact, productive communities that form a solid, rock-bed foundation for the Imperial powers." Professor J.L. McBride, school extension agent, L.S. Bureau of Education, gave a lecture on the nationwide campaign for the betterment of rural schools. He summarized briefly under ten heads the needs of the rural schools—longer term, professionally trained teachers, universal high school education, adequate county force, community organization, consolidation of teachers, a school principal for the whole time, farm plots for the study of agriculture, county libraries and education that shall educate the boy for the farm, and not for the city—closing with a vigorous appeal to the teachers to cooperate in achieving these results.

MANY ROBBERIES REPORTED
Chickens, Ruhlits, Diamond Ring and Diamond Ring from unknown firms are among the articles stolen. Thieves are variously inclined. One will steal a hat from a man's head; another will enter a man's backyard and steal his pet rabbit, and another will enter a widow's hencoop and steal all her chickens. Tastes differ in thieving as well as in other things. A rooster crowing.  From a backyard fence attracted the attention of a prowler, and after the rooster's neck was wrung, the prowler opened the coop and stole the hens. A rabbit showed its white fur at an unpropitious moment, and it is gone. There is no clue to the thief or thieves. 