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Rural School and Church Problems to be Discussed.

Columbia, S. C., Nov. 29.—Walter H. Page, of New York, editor of The World's Work, and Dr. David F. Houston, of St. Louis, Chancellor of Washington University, have accepted invitations to deliver addresses on National Education Day at the Fifth National Corn Exposition here next January. Both men are well known in this section, Dr. Houston is one of the most prominent educators of the South. Both he and Mr. Page have devoted much time to the study of problems pertaining to the betterment of rural life.

National Education Day has been fixed for Friday, January 31, the Exposition opening on the 27th. Other prominent educators who have accepted invitations to speak on this day are Mr. J. D. Eggleston, State Superintendent of Education of Virginia, and Miss Mabel Carney, of Normal University, Normal, Ill., Secretary of the Illinois Country Life Federation. The addresses of this day will be directed to real problems in school improvement and in the improvement and development of rural schools especially. A series of exhibits, demonstrating the methods, value and need of rural school improvement is being prepared for the Exposition by President D. B. Johnson and a special committee of the Winthrop faculty. Treating a different phase of the same subject will be country community exhibit, to be put on by Miss Mabel Carney in cooperation with the rural life department of the Presbyterian Board of Home missions, of New York. This exhibit will deal with rural school and church problems, and their relations to the rural community. Dr. S. C. Mitchell, President of the University of South Carolina, is in charge of program arrangements for National Education Day.