The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-30
NOTES REGARDING THE WINsTON-sALEM
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE,

conference may be bist understood
by studying the platform and reso.
lutions adopted. They are:
"The Conference for Education in
the South, on occasion of its fourth
annual meeting, held at Winston
Salem April 18th, 18Th and goth,
1901, reafirms its conviction that
the Questioning and supreme pub
lie need of our time, as we pass the
threshold of a new century, IS the
education of the children of all the
people. We declare such education
to be the foremost task Of our states
manship, and the most worthy OBJ
ject of philanthropy. With the ex,
pansion of our population and the
growth of industry and economic
resources, we recognize in d fitting
and universal education and train
ing for the home, for the farm and
the workshop, and for the exercise
of the duties Of citizenship, the only
ia ' dUlOA ~ Jul GALA4O w. NON-~
ards of family and social life and the
only hope for the ~perpetuity OF our
institutions, founded by our fore
fathers on the four cOrIer-stOnes of
intelligence, virtue, economic eth-
cheney and capacity for practical
self control.
eve recognize the value of efforts
hitherto made to solve u educa-
tiOnal problems, both rs respects the
methods to be used, and also as re-
CARDS sheer quality of the work to
be done. But we also find in the
facts as presented at the sessions of
this conference the imperati We need
Of renewed efforts on a lar ger scale !;
and we also find III the improved
financial outlook of the country and
in the advancing state of public Opin-
ion better hopes than ever before Of
Il large response to this great need.
As the first great need of our people
is adequate elementary instruction,
and as this instruction must come to
children so largely through mothers
and women teachers in their homes
and primary schools, we desire to
emphasize our belief in the wisdom
of making the most liberal invest
ments possible in the education of
girls and women.
"Whereas, therefore, the condi.
tiOns existing in the Southern States
seem now fully ripe for the large de-
velOpment, as we'll as further i'm
prOvement of the schools, and,
"Whereas, this conference desires
to associate itself actively with the
work of organizing better school
systems and extending their advan-
tages to all the people.
''ReSOlUed, That this conference
proceed to organize by the appoint
ment of an executive board of seven,
who shall be fully authorized and
empowered to conduct:
Il. A campaign of education for
free schools for all the people, by
supplying literature to the newepa-
pers and periodical press, by par
ticEpatiOn in educational meetings
and by general correspondence, and,
80. To conduct Il bureau of inf r
nation and advice on legislation and
school organiz4tion.'
K X X X X
On Friday afternoon, Mr.. G. B.
Gibson, Superintendent of Schools,
Columbus, Ga, made d very inter
esting address, in the course of
which he referred to a unique plan
for getting the children to school
which has proved u great success in
his section. Before hearing Mr..
Gibson, we had clipped a newspaper
article regarding the plan which we
give below:
"Fhe State School Commissioner
Of GeOrgia, in his last annual reD.rt.
recommends a plan for hauling the
children to school in the sparsa1v
settled rural DISTRICTS And the
plan adopted in one Of the counties
Of that State is not a bad one, either
on the contrary, highly commend
able. The Journal, Of Atlanta, tells
us Professor Glenn's idea has been
put into effect in the northern part
Of Muscogee county. A number OF
farmers petitiOned the county school
commissioner to establish a school
in their neighborhOod, but that off
cial did not consider it PRACTICABLE to
do 50. The nearest school was five