Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1915 — Plan to Keep Youths On Farm. [ARTICLE]

Plan to Keep Youths On Farm.

The -first annual state rural ministers’ conference dosed Thursday after a three days’ session at Purdue. Two hundred ministers and laymen had registered before the close of the session. Many ways of increasing the efficiency of the rural church and thereby strengthening the hold on young persons were suggested at the, final session. It was generally agreed that the church held the key to the situation and the problem of meticing country life as attractive and enjoyable as that of city life in order to keep the young-people who are rapidly slipping to the cities, was up to the churches.