The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-29
LOCAL TAAAl1 ton
FOR EDUCAT ton
Southern Education Board TO Help
Campaign Along.
BIG MEETING AT ATHENS, GA.
AT Conference TO Be Held There hundreds of
Representatives from Southern
States VI ill Be Present.
Plans Discussed.
BIG MEETING AT ATHENS, GA.
(Dy Associated Press.

- H'tS>'oitS dill Gay.
1t JULIUS Jordan, of the Arkansas
University, delivered an address advocat-
an. 4 change Of the time Of meeting of
the ASSOCIATION from the winter to the
summer lie also ADVOCATED the estab-
llshment OF Il normal school in connec-
tLoa with the association.
Ino Executive Committee was instruct
ed to change the time of meeting to the
summer. The next meeting will be held
next summer
Several resolutions were passed by the
association on the recommendation OF the
Comm ittee on Resolutions.
Among them was the following:
THAT the association Condemns the
employment in mines, mills and fac
tories of children of immature age and
urges the immediate enactment Of such
State legislation as shall offer us Just
and humane restrictions upon child labor
in the mines and manufacturing estab-
lishments in the Southern States
This was adopted amid applause.
OFFICERS CHOSEN.
The following officers We're elected for
tho next year:
President, Superintendent w. n. sheats,
Tallahassee. Fla
Vice-Presacnt. c. r. Glenn, Atlanta.
Secretary, 2. P. Claxton, Greensboro,
n. C.
Treasurer Frank NJ. Smith, Knoxville
Tenn.
A resolution, was adopted expressing
thigh appreciation of the great services
to the cause of education given by the
present United States Commissioner of
Education and the work of the National
Bureau of Education.
DR.. Dabney presented an Invitation
from the city of Knoxville, for the next
meeting. and T. ". Colston presented one
from San Antonio. Texas. This matter
was left to the committee and officers, as
usual.
Or. Josiah Perniman, of the University
of Pennsylvania, this evening was the
principal speaker ana despite the wealth
er he was greeted by a good audience.
his address was "a masterpiece, regar:ed
by many the best of the session.. 1t dealt
with archaeological subjects.
SPLENDID ADDRESS.
Professor Leconte stevens, of wash
ington and Lee University, made a sple1-
did address this afternoon, dealing
with intercollegiate athletics in a MASTER
ful manner. 1t was regarded as one CT
the ablest talks of the Kind ever made
South and precipitated a discussion, par
ticipated in by a dozen members of the
conference.
There will be,.two special Sunday ST, S
sions, Dr.. Penniman being the spears er
at the first on THE Literary Devclu J.
ment Of the Bble:'' ~
A chorus of 100 voices will render th e
music.
just before the close of the mornn: 8
session of the Southern Educational AS
ISOLATION to-day President Charles D. Mo ?
Iver in behalf of the Southern Board { IT
Education made a statement to the ass ,
citation in regard to the conference I Or
education in the South which will nc id
its fifth annual meeting the first OF NJ fay
| in Athens. Ga.
ARRANGING PROGRAMME.
| The Campaign Committee of the Sou tn
| ern Education Board acting for the on
| ference has been in session in Column bla
| during the past two days and has be gun
20 arrange the programme for the m GET
| Ing at Athens. There will be at this fcon-
| ference several hundred people from very
| Southern State ard about sixty Mort ihern
| friends, who are members Of the coIflfer-
| ence
The origin of this conference five years
| ago at Capon Springs. W. Va, wass eX-
| planned. At first it was a conference. OF a
few Southern and few Northern men.
| all of whom We're anxious to aid IN any
| possible way in the educational ST. uggle
/ going on in all parts of the South Three
! meetings were held at Capon ST. rings.
where the members of the conf ierence
were entertained by Major Sales TT his
hotel. Last year at Winston-SaleI n.
! c. the fourth annual session was: held,
and it was very largely attended. bik,th by
Northern and Southern people. The
| Athens meeting win evidently be. much
more largely attended.
AS the name implies, this is Ia con
| ference between people interested. in the
same cause. It's object is to prcjl 1ote in
every possible way universal edIs!cation
At the Winston-Salenl conferer zee pro
vision was made for Southerrft Educa.
ton Board, which should have ithe RICH
as the Executive Board of the cI1nferenC.
/ to collect money and to apply it'll to carry
out the purposes of conference.
LOCAL TAXATION.
This Southern Education Boar III will un:
dertake with funds now in hantE to aid j,
certain portions of the SoutheEs~n State:
campaigns now being made for local tax
alton to improve the public schoo
system. TO do this Il tey have
divided the work into t, go parts
a Bureau of Investigation and IN
formation is to be conducted under
the dictatorship Of DR.. CHARLEY; w. Dab
ney at Knoxville, Tennessee. The bust
ness of this bureau will be t''h collect in
formation and print it in surh form a:
shall make effective campaign, document:
in favor of increasing PUBLIC: school ia
cilities The field work is. placed II
charge OF three district directors, E. a
Alderman and B. Frissell arid c.. D. Nc
| Iyer, and both the work OF INhe 1nforma
ton bureau and the field Work is to o.
undar the direction OF Hcn. }. l.. NJ
Curry. as supervising director.
TO STRENGTHEN SYSTEM.
The Campaign Committee, which ha
been in session here this we SEX, and which
has absolute charge OF theF Work under
taken by the conference. lsa composed
+ Nessrs Curry. Alderman, ElTrissell, Dab
ney and McIver. The entiiss WORK OF IN
C.amnairn COMMITTEES will lie, for strength
ening at every point the pupnc scnoo
system. No money will bef c1str1nuteo u
This committee to conduct Ia campaign il
behalf of better school fsEllltles iot, gu
children.
The Campaign Comrnlttfe IS arrangln
an attractive programme Tor the th ~.
days meeting at Athcnsk Questlons o IL
cussed there will be 10 tsal taxation 70
q public schools, indust11aH education. "
traini,q Of teachers ami methpo's Of St
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