The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-31

been in session here this week and which
has absolute charge of the work under
taken by the conference is composed OF
Messrs. Curry, Alderman, Grissell,, Dab
ney and McIver The entire work Of the
campaign committee will be for strength
ening at every point the public school
system No money will be distributed
l,y this committee to institutions of
learning. The committee simply proposes
to conduct campaign in behalf of better
school facilities for@our children.
The campaign committee is arranging
an attractive programme for the three
day meetings at Athens. Questions dis
cussed there will be local taxation for
public schools, Industrial educetion, the
training of teachers and methods of Sc
curing better public school houses.
1t is not the purpose of the Southern
Education Board to undertake to lnau-
gurate new enterprises, but simply to
strengthen what already exists. What
ever work it does will be done in har-
mony with the efforts Of local school au-
thorities.
The friends from the North have asked
for the privilege of making a liberal
contribution in money for this purpose,
and they ask that the Southern members
of the board appointed on the Campaign
Committee shall take absolute charge
of the work and conduct it as seems best
to them. George Foster Peabody, the
treasurer of the board and the most
liberal contributor is native of Co
lumbus, Ca, where he spent his boyhood
days He has made liberal donations to
NH To- pntprnriSpS
in four or five Southern States during
the past year, his gifts being especially
liberal to his native State of Georgia
Mr.. Ogden, president OF this board,
last year brought large company OF
friends on a special train chartered at
his own expense. Whether he will pur-
sue the same course this year or not, the
committee is not authorized to say.
Whether he does so or not large num-
Der of Northern friends will be present
at the conference.
The Campaign Committee desires the
cooperation of all who are working for
the upbuilding of the public school sys-
TENS of the Southern States. 1t hopes
not to be misunderstood. The field is
so large that it is exceedingly difficult
to know where or how to begin. 1t cam
not begin to help everywhere at once.
1t will have at it's disposal about $40, 900
year for the next ten years, beginning
January LIST. 1t desires the sympathy and
support especially of the teaching pro-
fession and wherever any work has been
projected so far 1t is meeting with cor
dial CO. operation. Doubtless the friendly
relations established by the Southern
Educational Conference between thinking
citizens of the North and thinking citi-
zens of the South will result in the flu
ture in much good to the South, outside
the specific work of this campaign COM
mittee, but that is not matter for the
immediate consideration of the Southern
Education Board or it's Campaign Com
mittee.
At the conclusion of President MvIver's
statement Prof. Thatch, of Auburn, Ala,
spoke Of some good results from the or
ganization of this board in his State,
and offered the following resolution,
which, after two or thre speeches of
endorsement, was adopted by a rising
vo.e:
Resolved That the Southern Educa-
tional Association in convention assem-
bled at Columbia, S. c., hereby expresses
it's sense of cordial appreciation and
hearty approval of the movement made
for the benefit of education in the South
under the auspices of that body of educa-
tors, philantropists and citizens of the
North and South, known as the confer
ence for education in the South.