The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
Ogden's Party Welcomed to the South.
PROMINENT MEN PRESENT
Jurists. Business Men an
 Students Greet Them.
President Ogden Outlines work Which It is Proposed to Accom-
 plish-Prof. c. c. Thach De-
 Iivers Address of Response.

Athens, Ga, April 2.--In the chapel M the University of Georgia, welcome w1a tonight given Robert c. Ogden and hie party of philanthrophists by an auen~ blaze composed of prominent educaxoru from all parts of the South. jurists. bust< ness men and students. who came hers to be present at the first session of th4 fifth annual conference for education M the South. The conference was invita- to the State by. tho Georgia Isesislatufo and Hon. Clark Howell. president cf tn4 Senate, speaking for the commonwealth and for the municipality of AthsnM voiced the first words of welcome. After extending hearty greeting to the gather- ing of distinguished men and women MT. Howell said:
 ,This welcome is made doubly hearty in the declared purpose of this organixa< ton to conduct its work along lincq which will recognize the necessities of tho great masses of the whites as well as ok the blacks, who compose our populattou- In the excited rush of some of those philanthroptcally inclined to pile up funds to be devoted exclusively to the educa- ton of the negro, the struggling masses of the whites have been too often lost sight of.
 Best to Be Frank,
 ''It is best to be frank in this matter of so much importance to our well beinB The failure to secure heretofore the real, sincere and practical cooperation of the .auIl1 entitled to the very fullest support and sympathy from all the people of the sec ton most affected has been dues to the fact that the philantrophy which. has directed it's energy toward the South has been expended alnaest exclusively in tnal behalf of one rssce, overioohtng tfs greater necessities of the other. As re- suit of this course vast armies or p white boys who could not help themseiys3 have been, since the Civil War, working out their own salvation against edds which have required superhuman enduEe ance to surmount.
 Tn this day of trusts and combines let the work of this conference be to imr prove the opportunity to organize the big gest and most comprehensive trust yet attempted--an educational trust. in which every child will be a stockholder and every human head will be share of stock.'
 Significance of Movement.
 sswhen you do this you will have tn- ar1gurated a movement beside which Will he insignificant the combines which have cornered both the land and the ocean and
 which levy tribute on every morsei or food which enters the mouths or tns hungry. There will be created in such A combination a storehouse sof energys backed by riches greater than 'Golcon- da's. and which can be made to unfold to the eager world the priceless resurces Iocked in the fertile bosom of the wealthiest undeveloped territory of Gods green earth-an energy which will harness our rivers. start to pulsating as never before the beating arteries Of our com1 merce: create new factories. inspire new enterprises, transform idleness into in- dustry and touch with the magic wand of knowledge the source from which will spring an everfiowing fountain or peace contentment and prosperity.
 MT. Ogden was then introduced and delivered his annual address.
 This conference exists for holy eauge-holy in the highest sense. It's creed reflects the Divine love, broad and
 heneficent as the universal sunshine and expressed in the single simple dogma that every child in this broad land pos- sesses the natural right to 8 good Eng | fish education. The personnel is ccs~ mopolitan In a marked degree. Here are | Governors of States, officers of great cor porations. educators Of every degree, cIergymen of many communities, authors. bankers. merchants, lawyers. who, for inc time being have set aside their sev- eral cares for the larger interests of our common country. And the crowntnG grace, influence and power of this assem- bly appears in the presence of so many good women.
 Intellectual Awakening.
 "In morals and national things. the new century is an event to the world at large There is a sudden manifestation of accumulated power. Masses of capital rush together of magnetic impulse ana
 In startling magnitude. Community of lRr terest pools in concrete form. values that had not been comprehended in detail This material life is national. Simul- taneously with this realization of things an intellectual awakening appears. Geu- erous facilities for research are placed at the command of science. The increas~ ed endowment to great institutions of
 learning is the recognition of the debt that wealth owes to scholarship" The President then outlined the organt- zation and work of the Southern Educa- uonal Board and the Board of the Gen eral Education fund, formed since the last conference. As to the problem of education in the South, he said, in cons cluslon:
 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 tha future shall be furnished. It Is our duty to echo and re-echo these appeals that
 the ignorant shall rise mp and by the mere force of human right demand ade-s auate education. that the people should tax themselves for education. that school authorities should promote the best ideas of education that philanthropy should apuly the lacking margin beyond the cas- pacity of the public purse and private local liberality. Let no doubtful express sion of uncertain sound go forth. Edu. cation for all the peoples good, well- equipped school houses with competent