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The tenth commandment, and now I know who Is going to clap, is 

 this: 



"THOU SHALT NOT DRIVE THE AUTO FROM THE BACK SEAT." 



In our institute work we often have to take long drives, such as Dr. 

 Wilson told you, and we usually ride in the back seat with the hostess. The 

 host drives the auto and he is constantly told from the back seat that there 

 is a load of hay coming, that there is a curve to the right, that there is a 

 ditch to the left, that somebody is trying to get by the auto, and the whole 

 lovely trip is spoiled because the woman in the back seat insists upon driv- 

 ing that car. If she would only be quiet and tell me about the lovely scen- 

 ery, about who owns this farm or that farm, we would enjoy the ride very 

 much more. It is a lack of self-control, and I want to urge the women of 

 this state to learn to control themselves so that they will not drive the auto 

 from the back seat. 



There was a young man who was starting out to talk and he went to his 

 uncle for advice. He said, "You are a great speaker, Uncle, I wish you 

 would give me the rules that you follow to make you the successful speaker 

 that you are." The uncle said, "There are only three rules to follow. The 

 first one is this: if you have anything to say stand up so people can see 

 you; second, talk up so they can hear ypu, and the third and most import- 

 ant one of all is to shut up so that they will like you." [Laughter ] 



And that is what I am going to do now. I thank you. [Applause.] 

 Vocal duet Doris and Dorothy Sites 



Dr. WILSON: It isn't very many years since you took our boys and 

 girls away from us and put them out into the little red school. The time 

 has come when we realize you have done the best you could as men and that 

 you need some help in reorganizing the little red school. We have responded 

 to the request from a number of people that Mrs. H. M. Dunlap, who 

 has made such a serious study of this matter, might bring to you the 

 message which she brought to us this week. We have been asked for it a 

 number of times. We feel you ought to have it, and we are glad to have 

 the time and Mrs. Dunlap with us to give it to you. 



OUR RURAL SCHOOLS. 

 (Mrs. H. M. Dunlap.) 



During most of my life I have been connected, more or less, with the 

 rural school. I attended the rural school. I taught in the rural school, and 

 I taught in the rural school three years after I was married. I sent my 

 little girl to the rural school, and I have been a director in the rural school 

 for twenty years, and I believe I know something of the life in the rural 

 school; and today the rural school is one of the greatest problems that 

 America has to solve. But she is beginning the solution of it. 



James Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education, in his annual 

 report says: "More than two-thirds of American schools are rural schools, 

 and they are the most unsatisfactory part of the public school system." 

 He says: "We have an educational crisis in the number of our people who 

 cannot read and write nor appreciate the principles and ideals of our gov- 

 ernment." He also says: "The greater part of native American illiteracy 

 is in rural regions." 



The last census gives the total number of persons of school age, be- 

 tween 5 and 20 years of age, to be 33,250,870, with 21.373,976 in school. Over 

 one-third of those that should be in school are not there. 



Something has been lacking in the nation's educational outlook when 

 it has permitted for so long a time a community and state indifference to 

 the education of their people for self-supporting, intelligent and efficient 

 citizenship. Perhaps the nation has been wise in the past in not extending 

 its interest to the education of its citizens through the states, as already, 

 when it does see a greater need for its interest in the national education, by 



