The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-04-29
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EDUCArIoNAL UuNsEKEN: :E.


money from the north, but because some
of those who have money are consclen-
tiously in earnest in the desire to place 1t
in the south and are going 20 do it, and
it therefore behooves our educators to
take part with these people and help
them put this money in sucu channels as
will do the most good. 1t was our priv
ilege to stop in Athens last week for a
few hours and to attend some OF the ses-
sions of the conference, and we were glad
to see so many leading and prominent
educators from South Carolina IN attend
ance upon the meeting. These men and
women from the north who have
come down here are deeply in earnest,
and from our observation at this confer
ence we believe their purpose is good and
that they are anxious to give of their
wealth with pure motives and with the
purpose of doing good to the greatest
number. They are going at their work
in systematic way, and while they are
making contributions they are also gath
ering information of the needs. 1t is
their purpose rather to help the common
schools and schools for training teachers
than to endow colleges. AS expressed by
President Ogden not to be satisfied until
there are well equipped school houses,
competent teachers and an eight-months'
term in every school district. This is
what we need. It is the great need of
the south-this and good public roads
should 60 together and then the rural
districts will be the ideal places to live.
Mr.. w H. Baldwin, Jr., expressed the
purpose of the conference as follows:
First. To promote education in the
whole country, irrespective of race, sex or
creed.
Second. To develop public schools, es
pecially rural schools.
Third. To, encourage self-help, the
urging of local taxation for schools.
Fourth. The training of school teach
ers, especially in the industrial depart
ments
Fifth. To cooperate with institutions
already established and to aid in their
maintenance and improvement.
Sixth. To cooperate with other insti-
tutions of learning.
Seventh. To collect educational statis-
tics.
Eighth. To furnish information re-
garding education and to be the clearing
house of educational statistics.
Ninth. To furnish the press with lnfor-
nation looking to the advancement Of
: education interests.
Tenth. To promote every form OF de-
serving educational work.
From President 0gden's annual report
we make the following extracts which
will give an idea of the purpose of the
meeting:
"This conference exists for holy
cause-holy in the highest sense. Its
creed reflects The divive love, broad and
benehcene as the universal sunshine, and
expressed in the single dogma, that every
child in this broad land possesses the nat
ural right to a good English education.
The personnel is cosmopolitan in a
marked degree. Here are governors OF
states, officers of great corporations, ed
ucators of every degree, clergymen OF
many communions, editors, authors,
bankers, merchants, lawyers, who, fl
the time being, have set aside their sew
eral cares for the larger interests of our
common country, and the crowning grace,
influence and power of this assembly ap-
pears in the presence of so many good
women.
"In morals and national things the
new century is all event to the world at
large. There is sudden manifestation
of accumulated power. Masses of capital
rush together with magnetic impulse and
in startling magnitude. Community Of
interest pools in concrete form values
that had rot been comprehended in de-
tail. This material life is national.
simultaneously with this realization
of things, an intellectual awakening ap-
pears. Generous facilities for research
are placed at the command of science.
The increase of endowment to great in
stitutions of learning is the recognition
of the debt that wealth owes to scholar
ship"
The, president then outlined the or
ganization and work of the southern ed
ucation board, and the board of general
education fund, formed since the last con-
ference.
AS to the problem of education in the
south he said, in concluding:
''Out of the case comes the silent ap,
peal of millions of children of school age.
With this appeal comes the cry Of our
country with a stern demand that from
this child material good citizens for the
future shall be furnished 1t is our duty
to so echo and re echo these appeals that
the ignorant shall rise up, and by the
mere force of human right demand ade-
quAte education, that the people should
tax themselves for education, that school
authorities should promote the best ideas