The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-13
|DR. R.AzE.R| R GIVE
BOARD PLANS { ),
Interesting Statement Concern
ing Educational Campaign.
NOT TO SPEND MUCH MONEY NC Y
dea is TO Get the People OF the South TO Be
Willing to Tax Themselves for
the Sake Of
Education.
NOT TO SPEND MUcH. MONEY

Southern Education Board. OF which he
and Hon, II. st. George Tucker arc the
Virginia representatives. OF the origin Of
the Board Dr.. Prayer writes:
at this meeting conference for edu-
cation in the South, at Winston-Salcni,
N. c., i'll April. {. year ago. were adopted
The following platform preamble and
resolutions, providing for the Southern
Education Board:
1.-THE conference for education in the
South reaffirms its convictions that the
ovcrshadowing and supreme need Of our
time, as we pass the threshold of a. new
century, is the education Of all the peo-
pie.
We declare such education to be the
foremost task of our craftsmanship and
tho most worthy object of our philan-
tircpy. With the expansion Of our popu-
lat:cn and the growth Of industry and
economic resources we recognize in
fitting and universal education and train
ins; for the home, for the farm and work
shop, and for The exercise Of the duties
OF citizenship, the only salvation for our
American standards Of family and social
life and the only hope for tho perpetIity
OF our institutions, founded by our fore
fathers on the four corner-stones OF i'll
te]Jigence, virtue, economic efficiency. ard
capacity for political self-control We
rccc anize tho Value of efforts hitherto
1rade to solve our educational problems,
beth as respects the methods to be used
and also as regards the sheer quantity
o. the work to be done. But we also find
in the facts as presented a the sessions
OF this conference the imperative need OF
renewed efforts on a larger scale, and
we also find in the improved financial
outlook of the country and in tho all
vancing state Of public opinion bctte:
hopes than ever before of a larger re-
sponse to this greater need. AS the first
great need Of our people is adequate eie-
1nentary instruction, and as this instrllc-
tion must come to children SO iar6elJ
through mothers and women teachers IN
their homes and primary schools, we DC
sire TO emphasize our belief i'll Tic WAS
dom of making the most liberal invest
mentS possible in the education oi S,!:s
and women.
'Whcreas, therefore, the conditions eS
listing III the Southern States seem aow
fully ripe for the large development. as
we'll as further improvement OF the
schools; and
..Whcrcas this conference desires TO as
sociate itself actively with the wo1k OF
organizing better school systems and eS-
tending their advantages to all the peo-
pie
Resolved, That this conference pro-
coed to organize by the appointment of
Ri 1IASCuuNC foOdiu. VIII Skill NO iuiiS
authorized and empowered to conduct
q, a campaign Of education for free
schools for all the people. by supplying
literature to the newspaper and peri
odical press. by participation in educa-
tional meetings, and by general corrc-
spondence; and (2) to conduct bureau
of information and advice on legislation
and school organization. For these pur-
poses this hoard is authorized to raise
funds and disburse them, to employ
secretary or agent. and to do whatever
may be necessary TO carry out effec-
lively these measures, and others that
may from time to time be found feasible
and desirable"
PERSONNEL OF THE BOARD.
In accordance with these provisions
of the conference, the Southern Educa-
ton Board was organized in New York
last November. with Robert c. Ogden,
Esq. of New York. president; DR..
Charles D N1cIver president of North
Carolina State Normal and Industrial
Colleee). secretary. and George Foster
Peabody. Esq, Of New York. treasurer.
Curry. President Dabncy. of the Uni
vcrsitN OF Tennessee; President Alder
man. Tulane University, New Orleans;
DR. IL. Is. Frisscll, Hampton. Va; Rev.
Wallace Buttrick, D. d. Albany. n. Y;
William II. Baldwin. Jr.. New York:
Dr. Albert Shaw. editor of the Review
of Reviews; DR.. Walter II. Page, editor
Hanna. Indianapolis, Ind.
The active operations of the board are
carried on through the following agcn-
cies: Supervising Director, Hon. ]. l..
AZ. Curry, Washington, D. c.: Director
Of Bureau of Information and Investi-
CATION, DR.. Charles W. Dabney, Knox
Vile Tenn: District Directors-Dr. c.
NrcTvn, Crennc,orp. = Io,, A
Alderman. New Orleans, La: DR.. II. B.
Trissell, Hampton, Va. Campaign COM
m:ttee-Dr. Curry (chairnnn). DR.. Dab
rey, DR.. Alderman, DR.. NIcIver and DIR.
Frisscll. Field Agents for Virginia
Hon. III. st. George Tucker Lexington,
Writing eff the aims of the Board. two
Of its members-Dr. Page, a North Caro-
linian, and DR.. Shaw-haye these things
to say: 1--WE hear much about Southern
natural resources and Southern industrial
development, which is taking long strides;
but there Is more potential wealth in the
unframed hands and minds Of the for
gotten masses than in all the forests and
mines and wells and rivers OF every
Southern State.
TIME FOR sECTlONAL1SNI PAST.
1.-THE time for sectlonalism surely is
rast. Past. too is the time Of the pious
y
cretion; past the era OF misunderstood
ing and of nnisdirected effort, and long past
is any care for this creed or that In
social or political action, if only men
may grow to their full statute under free
And now the time is come
when Southern and Northern men unite.
very largely under Southern leadership,
to remove this burden OF Ignorance for
reasons.
This voluntary movement, growing out
OF the Southern Educational Conferences,
is of happy augury, because it is free
from fads and all odor of professional
from all manner OF cant
md besSary. 1t makes no appeal for
support; it stands for&no particular peda- /;
gogical doctrine or method; it holds TO
or political creed; lit is simply
patriotic. It's aim is to encourage the
proper free trailling of every child in the
Sout,; Ssll it is interested in the South
only. because public education there Ia IS
farthest behind
unlike the Peabody and Slater boards,
this new Southern Education Bodrd VIII
not have funds to apportion in direct aid
0. schools; but it will gather facts, DIS