The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-05-01
DISCUSS EDUCATION
The Southern Association Holds
Conference in Athens, Ga.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT OGDEN
Hundreds in Attendance on the Meet
lng-Objects of the Confer
ence Briefly Outlined by
w. n. Baldwin, Jr.

The Southern Educational Confer.
ence began its sessions at Athens,
Ca, Thursday afternoon.
In the chapel of the university OF
Georgia a hearty welcome was given
to Robert C. Ogden and his party OF
philanthropists by notable assem-
blage.
The purposes Of the congress, as
outlined by w. H. Baldwin, Jr., are
as follows:
First. To promote education In the
whole country, irrespective OF race,
sex or creed.
Second. To develop public schools,
especially rural schools.
Third. To encourage self-help, the
urging Of local taxation for schools.
Fourth. The training of school
teachers, especially in the industrial
departments.
Fifth To cooperate with schools
already established and to aid in their
maintenance and Improvement.
Sixth. To cooperate with other in
stitutions Of learning.
Seventh. To collect educational sta
tistics.
Eighth.-To furnish information re-
garding education and to be the clear
ing house of educational statistics.
Ninth. To furnish the press with
information looking to the advance.
ment OF education interests.
Tenth. To promote every form OF
deserving educational work.
President ogden's Address.
In his address Thursday night be-
fore the conference, President Robert
g. Ogden, Of New York, said in part:
"This conference exists for a holy
cause-holy in the highest sense. It's
creed reflects the divine love, broad
and benefcent as the universal sun
shine, and expressed in the single sim
pie dogma, that every child in this
broad land possesses the natural right
to a good English education. The per-
sonnel is cosmopolitan in a marked
degree. Here are governors OF states,
officers of great corporations, educa'
tors Of every degree, clergymen OF
many communions, editors, authors,
bankers, merchants, lawyers, who, TOR
the time being, have set aside their
several cares for the larger interests
of our common country, and the
crowning grace, influence and power
of this assembly appears in the pres
ence of 50 many good women.
In morals and national things the
new century is an event to the world
at large. There is a sudden manifes-
tation Of accumulated power. Masses
Ct capital rush together with magnetic
impulse and in startling magnitude.
Community of interest pools in con-
crete form values that had not been
comprehended in detail. This mate
rial life Is national.
simultaneously with this reallza-
ton of things, an intellectual awaken
ing appears. Generous facilities for re-
search are placed at the command OF
science The increase Of endowment
To great institutions OF learning IS the
recognition of the debt that wealth
owes to scholarship"
The president then outlined the or
ganization and work of the southern
education board, and the board OF
general education fund, formed since
the last conference.
Al to the problem Of education in
the south, he said, in concluding:
"Out Of the case comes the silent
appeal of millions Of children OF
school age. With this appeal comes
the cry of our country with stern de-
mand 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 ig-
norant shall rise up and by the mere
force of human right demand adequate
education, that the people should tax
themselves for education, that school
authorities should promote the best
ideas of education and that phllan-
thropy should supply the lacking mar
gin beyond the capacity of the pubic
purse and private local liberality. Let
no doubtful expression or uncertain
sound go forth. Education for all the
people; good, we'll equipped school
houses with competent teachers and
an eight months term in every school
district. Let this and nothing less
he the aim of this conference"