Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-27
SOUTHERN EDUCATORS.
Discuss the Facilities Given to White
 and Colored Races.

Washington, Dec 27.-The following
 address was delivered to-day before
 the Southern Educational association
 at Richmond:
 E. B. Fulton. chancellor of tila nj
 veTsity of Mississippi. in his annual ad
 dress IS president of the association.
 discussed the facilities for education
 given hy the south to The white and
 cClCred races. and said ill each state
 they had divided with the colored l;icA
 the funds l.. is. | bE taxes paid almost
 entirely hy white Meu and had given
 equal educational facilities at tile pub
 lie expense. He asked whether it had
 been proven that the studies which
 train 10 acuIenusS the Anglo Saxon
 mind Were the best to sharpen the
 Mongolian or the American intellect.
 Had not blind sentiment been aiming
 to give Anglo-SaX0n minds to the ne
 gro race instead of omering that de
 velOpment and training which would
 best meet the possibilities of that
 race? Millions of dollars had been
 spent annually for thirty-tiye years ill the southern states for the education of the negro race. Had there been an
 adequate return in advancement
 shown? II was. ha added. the duty of the intelligent educators of th@
 south 10 study and discuss these prob lamS ill all fullnesS and with impartial interest and tO determine in form and kind and method the education and training that should be afforded to the negro race.
 There are two important particulars in which coming changes will certain Iy modify the policies and the work of our schools of higher rank. In the | first place, those institutions wEich Il, ,.p11nDn.. nl, nni- versailles must see that vastly more is 1 lost than is gained when their rolls are swelled by the names of ilnlna ture
 and aimless students ill preparatory classes. and when the funds and en- orgies of the institution are spent in
 work that properly belongs to clement | ary or secondary schools. In the first | place. institutions intended to give l specially scientific or technical training l will learn that thcir best work is not | done when they attempt to work upon material that should be in the gram 1 mar school aS well as that which is
 more advanced. to give classical or | literary culture as well as technical. | to prepare for ultimate entrance into 1 the profession of teaching as well as | for the management of industrial en- 1 terprisas.
 Technical education in the south. in | the institutions already established. 1 and in those which may be established, 1 will not achieve for Individuals, nor l for the community. the highest and | fullest results until such education l shall be made to conform more fully | with the law which the experience of l all the past shows to be the governing | principle in educational advancement. | The greatest educational need of the south to-day is at least one institution | pre-eminently fitted by it's material ! equipment. it's means Of support and | it's, environment to command and hOld 1 without challenge the position of lead | CT in technical training among the in- stitutions about it. No one of the state institutions can claim this position for
 our section. To afford the material | appliances for such an institution as l we need. S1 100000 is q minimum sum. | To maintain it's work as it should be, | an endowment of not less than S3,OOO,- GOO would be needed. One institution. l with ample equipment, properly To- | cated and organized. could easily be made to exert q guiding and helpful | influence upon all manual and tech 1 nical training in all schools in the l south. Can there not be found some | where that union of wealth material | with wealth of noble libcTdlity which l shall provide in the first years of the i coming century for this most pressing need of education ill the south?