The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
GIFTS FOR GEORGIA
GENERAL EDUCATION BOARDS
LIBERAL OFFER.
$4,000 FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
RECOGNITION OF WORK OF GEOR.
GA WOMEN.

as Announced by MIR. Baldwin
Fills the Hearts of Georsians with
JOy-In Addition to the Normal
Scholarships $4,000 Is Given to
Complete the Winnie Davis Mem
OriaI HaII-An Intending Campaign
for Universal Education in South
Agreed Upon.
Athens. Ga, April 26.-Four thou
sand five hundred dollars, one-half of
the balance necessary to complete the
Winnie Davis memorial hall; $500 to
provide fifty three-year scholarships
each year at the Georgia State Normal
School. to duplicate the as scholarships
provided by the women of Georgia, an
offer to duplicate for a period of three
years all new scholarships of $50 each,
that the women of Georgia may pro-
vide before Jan. 1, 1908, to number
not exceeding fifty, were the contri-
buttons to-day of the general educa-
ton board to the women of Georgia.
Men cheered and wept and women
laughed and cried in the fullness of
joy when they comprehended all that
the announcement meant. Ex-Gov.
w. 7. Northen, who was on the plat
form when the announcement was
made in the conference, sprang to his
feet and asked the women of Geor-
gia in the great audience to stand up
and then, when they had done so, ask
ed the whole audience to stand up, not
as people of one state, or many states,
but as people of one country.
The announcements came in the mid
die of the morning session by William
H. Baldwin, Jr., of New York. If
the conditions specified in this an
nouncement are complied with to the
full extent of the offer, as no doubt
they will be, the total amount of this
contribution of the general education
board will be s19,5OO. 1t was several
minutes before the conference was
sufficiently composed to resume bust
ness. Invitations were extended to the
conference to-day by representatives
of the states of Tennessee, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina and Florida to
have the next years meeting held in
one of those states.
DR.. w. T. Harris, United States COM
missioner of education, was the princi-
pal speaker of the morning session.
No meeting was held this afternoon.
the delegates and visitors joining in
the decoration day exercises here.
The Donation Announced.
The announcement of the donation
came in the middle of the morning
session. In pause in the speaking
Mr.. Ogden said that Mr.. William III.
Baldwin had word to say.
Mr.. Baldwin said that as the presi-
dent of the General Education Board
he wished to speak more particularly
to the women of Georgia, because this
was Memorial day, which they had al
ways done SO much to observe To
them the board had a special message
to be made through its secretary DR..
Wallace Butterick. DR.. Butterick's
announcement was briefly this:
THE General Education Board will
| subscribe to the Georgia State Normal
School at Athens for a period of three
years fifty scholarships of $50 each to
meet the 46 scholarships now provided
by the women of Georgia-$2, 500 a year
for three years-$7,500 in ALL
In addition TO the above, the Cen
| eral Education Board will duplicate
| for a period of three years new schol-
arships of $50 each that may be
provided by the women of Georgia
before Jan. l, 1908, up to number not
exceeding fifty.
Understanding that the women of
Georgia have raised $4,000 toward a
fund of $4,000 for the erection of the
Winnie Davis Memorial Hall, the
General Education Board will subscribe
one-half the balance, or $4,000, provided
the remaining balance is subscribed be-
fore JAM 1, 1908.
william H. Baldwin, Chairman.
George Foster Peabody, Treasurer.
wallace Butterick, Secretary and Ex-
ecutive officer.
tfI T., Curry FrodarfcIr CaIo-
Daniel c.. Gilman, Morris K. Jessup,
Robert c. Ogden, Walter H. Page,
Albert Shaw"
1t was several minutes before the
conference was sufficiently composed
to resume business.
The members. of the conference at
tended the exercises of Memorial Day
and were delighted with the magnif-
cent Grafton of Hon. Joseph r. Lamar
of Augusta.
The evening session of the conference
was held in the Seney-Stovall chapel
of the Lucy Cobb Institute in the pres
ence of an audience which crowded the
building to the doors. Mr.. Ogden pre-
sided. Dr. Walter H. Page read the
report of the conference committee on
resolutions which was in effect as fol-
lows:
Campaign for Education.
1.-THE unending campaign that this
conference met to further is a cam
paign not only for the free education
of all the people, but for free educa-
ton of such efficiency as shall make
the coming generations of the South
ern states the best trained men and
women that an enlightened democracy
can produce. To this end 1t urges the
increase of taxes for school use the
lengthening of school terms and the
better payment of teachers as fast as
prudent regard for the economic con-
ditions of every community will per-
nit"
The conference commends the exam
pies of those communities that have
laid special taxes for school better
ment. 1t urges vigorous agitation in
those states that do not permit local
taxation for the adoption of such law
1t urges also more generous state aid
to normal schools; it asks for better
equipment of the country schools; 1t
declares it's settled belief that the train
ing of the hand is of equal value with
the training of the mind and that the
two should go together.
1.-The Bureau of the Southern Edu-
cation Board located at Knoxville in
vites the cooperation of all schools
officers, teachers, editors, public SER
wants and public spirited citizens"
Among the speakers was DR.. Felix
Adler Of New York. During the even
ing the conference sent a cable mes
sage Of remembrance to DR.. j. l.. M.
Curry in Spain. where he has gone as