Reel and Slide (Mar-Dec 1918)

10 REEL and SLIDE 45 1 Dakota Schools Now Use Screen By A. P. Hollis, (Chief of the Extension Division, North Dakota Agricultural College) FOR some reason in many states agricultural colleges have not recognized their direct relation to improving the farmers' schools as they have the improv , ing of the farmers' crops. In North Dakota, extension departments, through boys' and girls' club work, had learned that they could do nothing without the help of the rural school teacher and superintendent. I started out to reciprocate — to see what help the college could give the rural schools in their own field. The North Dakota College Extension Service helps rural schools in the following manner: 1. Assists county and state officers in consolidated schools campaigns through lectures, moving pictures and slides. 2. Assists in conducting and giving lectures at teachers' institutes and county school directors' meetings. 3. Courses of lectures, music and entertainment for social centers out in the country during slack times on the farm. Conveying the Outfit Special attention has been attracted to a battery lamp outfit developed at the college, which allows films to be shown in country school houses where electricity is not available. FILMS AND THE FARMER "W E hold 9 o'clock evening meetings in the spring — even during seeding time, and since most of the farmers now have autos, they can finish up the day's work and still have time to load the family in an auto and speed three or four miles to the school to see the pictures. * * * Favorite reels are "Learning and Earning," "An Agricultural College in Action," and "Your Uncle Sam at Work." And we have more calls for pictures than we can meet." — A. P. Hollis. Mr. Roy Corbett, instructor in the engineering department, who worked with me in evolving this outfit, has been transferred to the college extension service', and now gives his whole time to assisting in this form of service to the rural schools. The outfit can be taken on the train, in a specially built trunk, or in an automobile, whichever is most convenient. The state superintendent of education, N. C. McDonald, has made immediate use of the Agricultural College aid and has effected a working agreement with the college extension service for co-operation between the two departments in state-wide campaigns for better rural schools. Ninety per cent of the county superintendents of the state have called on the new department for aid in their counties, and more calls are received from school officers than can be met. The Agricultural College has found that the most direct and promising way in which it can help the farmer is -to help the farmer's boy and girl, now studying in the one room and consolidated rural schools of the state. North Dakota now has four hundred fifty-one (451) of these consolidated schools. Take the Whole Family We hold nine o'clock evening meetings in the spring, even during seeding time, and since most of the farmers now have autos, they can finish up the day's work and do the evening chores and still have time to load the whole family in the auto and speed three or four miles in a few minutes to the school house and see the pictures. The result has been even larger audiences at these nine o'clock spring meetings than at earlier but colder meetings, when the thermometer stays at 30 below and makes even a short trip a hard task. The favorite lectures and pictures at these meetings are "Making the Most of Farm Boys and Girls" — first-hand pictures of how consolidated schools work; and another lecture on "Learning and Earning," which pleads for vocational education for farm youth. iniiiODanniminiinuiunjnnifliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiin USE THE ATUS SERVICE BUREAU As hundreds of schools, colleges, churches, YMCA branches and Community Centers are doing. Look to it for guidance in the preparation of programs suitable for your individual needs — to get motion pictures upon which you can absolutely depend. Our Library Covers Wonderful Travelogs. Reliable Sociological Studies. Interesting Nature Studies. Clean Dramas (without objectionable matter). Wholesome Comedies (that ainuse,without offense). Patriotism. Aninnal Husbandry. Army and Navy. Religion. Agriculture. Industry. If what you want isn't listed here, write to us. We have it, or will get it for you. r^ikaJK TIT ^^H i^H^ PwBB W&i **"^ " III ^^-:^mbB 100 eggs to 100 chickens shown in two minutes From "Poultry Raising." Shows eggs actually hatching We are afhliated with the Better Films Clearing House, furnishing only "approved" films, with no objectionable features. Our co-operative work with leading institutions proves the value of ATLAS SERVICE. Complete Line of Projectors and Accessories. Sepcialists in Producing and Circulating EducationalIndustrial Pictures. THE ATLAS EDUCATIONAL FILM COMPANY 63 East Adams Street, Chicago, 111.