The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-06
BACK FROM TOUR
THE OGDEN PARTY IS ENTHU-
 SIASTIC OVER RESULT.
Hope to Raise $5o,o 1000, ,ooo to Educate the Poor-Party Travel
 ed 2,662 Miles-W. Fl. Bald
 win, Jr., Outlines Objects.

| New York World
 After a journey covering 2.662 miles, Robert C. Ogden. accompanied by his eighty guests returned to New York yes terday on the special train on which they nave been travelling through the South for two weeks visiting educational cen tres.
 Those in the party are the prime mov- for the South by which 1t is hoped to | raise a fund of 50. 900. 900. During the trip It received its first considerable impetus in the gift of q, 900 by John D. Rock
 The leaders of the movement returned full of enthusiasm and greatly encour- aged. Mir. Ogden said that the annual conference which lasted four days at Ath- meeting the organization has ever held and rehected the widespread interest of the south. The leading public men of that section were present.
 Among those in Mir. Ogdens party were William H. Baldwin, Jr., George Foster Peabody, Dr. Felix Adler. John Crosby Brown. Morris K Jessup and many others of national fame either as or educators.
 The party visited points iu Virginia. the Carolinas. Georgia Alabama and Ten nessee. The aims of the great movement next to Mir. Ogden. took the leading part in the investigation made on inc tour. Mir. Baldwin said:
 ''First-To promote education in the whole country irrespective of race, sec
 "Second-To develop public schoos. es- pecially rural schools.
 Third-.To encourage self-help. the urging of local taxation for schools
 'Fourth-The training of school teach CTS. 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 sta tistics.
 "Eighth-To furnish information regard ing education and to be the clearing house of educational statistics
 Ninth-To furnish the press with in- formation looking to the advancement of educational interests.
 "renth-To promote every form of de- serving educational work"
 We found the South aroused and sympathetic said Mir. Ogden. Not 2 note of sectionalism was struck. The whole meeting and trip were harmonious. every one. both Northerner and South erner. being animated by one thought. and that the good of a common country.
 ''The movement is now on working basis It will work in cooperation with the Slater and Peabody funds and will help 50 far as 1t can. existing institu- uom. US great object Is to build up the pubic school To do that We will strive to foster those schools where teachers are prepared. Before the public schools can be elevated the teachers must be supplied. The poor of the South need not only to be schooled, but to be taught ] how to cook. how to blow. how to Keep l house. how to do the everyday things of life. It is great work and the fruits of it will not be seen perhaIs for twenty-five | years. George Faster Peabody. Treasurer of the Board. will hereafter devote a great part of his time to carrying on the work. | so great proportions has 1t assumed. A l bureau for the conduct of a campaign of | and information has been | opened at Knoxville ',uder the direction l of Dr. Charles W. Dabney head of the | University of Tennessee. Dr. Dabney is | one of the many progressive educa tors of | the South who. like Dr. Alderman. Pres | ident of Tulane University. is taking | great interest in the movement. l If the movement assumeg the propor- | tions it's projectors hope for it/wiIl. in the | words of Mr. Baldwin. be Or. the same | sigsntic scale as the gr>at industrial l of the day. The mex. confer | ence Of the board win be held somewhere l in the South next year at point to be | determined by the Board later on.