(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
President Coolidge endorsed the conference called by the National Farm School to be held at the Biltmore Hotel, from June 2nd to June 7th, for the purpose of aiding young men and women in the larger cities throughout the country to adopt scientific agriculture as a profession, and to insure their success in this field after graduation from the National Farm School.
The President’s endorsement of the aims and purposes of the conference was sponsored by Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, who is Honorary Chairman of the National School Conference. The President’s approval is contained in a letter from him to Mr. Abraham Erlanger of New York City, National Chairman of the Farm School.
“I wish to express my sincere wish for the success of the coming National Farm School Conference. Its purpose to interest the young men and women of the large cities in scientific agriculture as an honorable and useful vocation is to be commended. Not only do you hold out the advantages of such a life work but you aim to make available the training necessary for such a career.
“Will you be good enough to convey my greetings to the conference delegates?” the President wrote.
The purposes of the conference are to interest young men and women in the larger cities of the country who have neither the means nor educational requirements for entering other universities and colleges in accepting the gratuitous facilities of the National Farm School at Doylestown. Pennsylvania, where an intensive three-year course of twelve months a year is given in practical farming, scientific agriculture and home economics with out charge for tuition or board.
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