The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08

this money when they are aroused and
enlightened and make to feel in their
marrow and bones it's vital Importance.
1t is difficult to arouse democracies, and
especially rural democracies. They must
be talked to and plead with and written
at in effective ways, and the people of
the South are still old-fashioned enough
to submit to this The greatest oppor-
tunty ever offered to constructive philan-
thropy lies just here. in my judgment.
II there existed in each Southern State
group of able men. of power and proven
experience, guided in a systematic way,
whose business it was to cover the terri
tory Of that State in an untiring cam
paign OF education for number Of years,
the close of the first decade OF this CEN
fury would see the wise adjustment of
most of the educational difficulties of the
South. There would be opportunities for
these men to teach the teachers and the
people, to convert clever politicians and
journalists into educational statesmen,
to transform State Legislatures into ed
ucational associations, to suggest wiser
educational organization, and to stimu-
late to helpfulness and benevolence the
growing wealth of the South.
"The interest on a few million dollars
would put this movement on an enduring
basis. II the Peabody Fund has stimu-
lated it's thousands to encouraging be-
ginnings. this would influence it's tens of
thousands to splendid finalties Is it
too much to hope that there will arise
some genius of social cooperation who
Will undertake to make possible this
great agency-some Pierpont Morgan O.
the educational world, with his eyes upon
the common people who work in the
shadows of the world and upon a land
somewhat over borne with difficult and
vexed problems?
THE great need of the South in educa-
tion Is scientific correlation of the
various branches of its so-called educa-
tional system.
THE third great need of the South Is
few amply, even ma efficiently equip
ped institutions set at logical nd strategic
points in it's area, where sound modern
various learning might be taught to the
young men and women who must direct
our life. These institutions should be
especially effective in the subjects of
technology, economics, sociology, and
philosophy, for these are our issues for
the next twenty years. The cities should
take care OF their own schools, and they
will do So The churches should take
care Of their own, where they exist pri-
marily for church purposes. The State
universities and the land grant colleges,
simply as such, are proper charges upon
the State itself, and civic self-respect de-
dc hot ha nt,,ta ;,,n Il
maintained generously. Colleges for the
training of teachers will grow naturally
out of enlarged facilities for popular ed
ucation. A union of all forces-ecclesias-
tical, civic. and philanthropical-ar
needed, however to create inspiring in
situations, and, in addition, there must be
some certainty that the institutions so
aided have proven their right to exist
and occupy such a geographical position
as will insure their indefinite growth.
There are only six or eight such institu-
lions in the Southern States between
johns Hopkins on the North and Tulane
University on the South, including these
two institutions Hampton Institute and
Tuskegee Institute ought to be continu-
ally strengthened as the great training
grounds and experiment stations for the
education Of the negro race. To estab-
lish new colleges while the potentially
great institutions struggle on in poverty,
turning away precious young scholars
because they have no loan funds or fell
lowshirs or scholarships. is a piece Of
pure folly. =
'The fourth and acutest need of the
South--perhaps / might say of our whole
country-is an overwhelming circle of