The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-31
Southern Educational Asso-
citation Speaks Out.
ASKS. STATE LEGISLATION
The Education Conference Meets With
Hearty Endorsement.
Or. CHAs. D. NEVER TfLLs0F lrs PLANS
VIII Wage Campaign For Local Taxation to I'M
prove Public Schools Premises of
Liberal Contributions From
the North,

the North.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 2S.-The attend
ance upon the third days session of the
Southern Educational Association was
day.
DIR. Junius Jordan, of the Arkansas
University, delivered an address advo-
eating a change of the time of meeting
of the association from the winter to
the summer. He also advocated the es-
tablishment of normal school in coz
nection with the association. The ex-
ecutive committee was instructed to
change the time of meeting to the
summer
Several resolutions were passed bg
the association on the recommendation
of the committee on resolutions. Among
them was the following:
"That the association condemns the
employment in our 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
establishments in the Southern States
This was adopted amid applause.
The following officers were elected for
the next year
President, W. N. Sheets, Tallahassee,
Fla; vice president, G. r. Glenn, At
lanta; secretary, P. P. Claxton, Green's
boro, n. c.; Treasurer, Frank NJ
Smith. Knoxville Tenn
A resolution was adopted expressing
high 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 sinvitation
from the city of Knoxville for the next
meeting and T., M. Colston presented
one from San Antonio, Texas. This
matter was left to the committee anc
officers as usual.
Dr. Josiah Penniman, of the Univer-
Sity OF Pennsylvania, this evening was
the principal speaker and despite the
weather he was greeted by a good audi
ence
Prof. Leconte Stevens, of Washington
and Lee University, made a splendid
address this afternoon, dealing with in
ter-collegiate athletics in a masterful
manner.
There will be two Sunday sessions to-
morrow, Dr. Penniman being the
speaker at the first on THE Literary
development of the Bible" A chorus
OF one hundred voices will render the
music.
s
just before the close of the morning
session of the Southern Educational As
'soclatlOn today President Charles D. Nc
iGer in behalf of the Southern Board of
Education made a statement to the asso-
cation in regard to the conference for
education in the South which will hold
its fifth annual meeting on the first of
May in Athens, Ca
The campaign committee of the South
ern Education Board, acting for the con-
ference has been in session in Columbia
during the past two days and has be-
gun to arrange the programme for the
meeting at Athens. There will be at this
conference several hundred people from
every Southern State and about sixty
Northern friends who are members of the
conference.
The origin of this conference five years
plahed. AT first it was a conference of
few Southern and few Northern men,
all of whom were anxious to aid in any
possible way in the educational strug-
gle going on in all parts of the South.
Three annual meetings were held at Ca
Ion Springs where the members of the
conference were entertained by Major
Sales at his hotel. Last year at Win
Stn Sal
sion was held and it was very largely
attended both by Northern and Southern
people. The Athens meeting will evil
IDENTIFY be much more largely attended.
AS the name implies, this is a confer
ence between people interested in the
same cause. It's object is to promote
in every possible way universal education
At the Winston Salem conference pro-
vision was made for a Southern Educa-
ton Board which should have the right as
the executive board of the conference
to collect money and to apply it to carry
out the purposes of conference.
This Southern Education Board will I'M
dertake with funds now in hand to aid
in certain portions of the Southern States
campaigns now being made for local tax
alton to improve the public schools sys-
tenn. To do this they have divided the
work into two parts.
Bureau of Investigation and Infor-
nation is to be conducted under the di-
rectorship of DR.. Charles w. Dabney, of
Knoxville, Tenn. The business of this
bureau will be to collect information and
print it in such form as shall make eff
fectve campaign documents in favor of
increasing public school facilities. The
E,ld In, c,o IF
district directors, Il. A. Alderman, HI. B.
Grissell and c. d. McIver, and both the
work Of the Information Bureau and the
field work is to be under the direction
OF Hon. j. L. NJ Curry, as supervising
director.
The campaign committee which has