The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-04-30
EDUCATORS MEET.
v. A. Blair, OF Wiaslon.saIem, Treas.
ufer, for The lnsuing Year.
&c. OGDEN IS tLtCIED PRESIDENT
Or. Alderman and DIR. Mciser Re
sponsibie for The Beginning OF the
Present Rcyi, 81.

Richmond. Va. Spcelai.-The attend
ance al the meetings of the Conference
to- Education In the Soath was large
aEi enthusiastic. The following OIL
GERS were ele ted for the ensuing
year: President. Robert {. Ogdon. oi
New YORK: y,gs president. Edgar c.
aUyphy. q Montgomery. Ala: secre-
t1Ty. y. J. Baldwin. oi Montgomery
Ala; treasurer. W. \. Blair. of Win
Ston-Salcm. y. {. The executive ami
resolutions committees arc: Executive:
Chairman. 3. y. Valentine. Richmond.
j. q. Brown. Raleigh. y. c.: Il. B. FUl-
ton, Mississippi; President Caldwell. Of
the State Normal SehCul OF Liuis!aua:
Superintendent {. r.. Gibson. Coium-
bus. Ga; ID. +. Houston. Texas: Presi-
dent JeSse. Of TIE University %: h.s
souri; Superintendent G. u. Glenn
jacksonville Fla: S. 4. Minders, Ten
nessee; II. II. Sniler, South Caroiinc
committee Oh resolutions, Richard
Watson. Glider. editor Of The Century.
United States Attorney General p. c.
Knox; Z. c. Bronson, Georgia; State
superintendent Joyner. North Caro-
Lima; Z. c. Sanford. Knoxville. Tenn.
DR.. Lyman Hall. of the Georgia In
stitution OF Technology, was the first
speaker at the morning session. He de-
ciared facetiousiy that il the move
ment continued its work, the people Of
| the South would be talking OF Darkest
| New England and referring TO "ill!t-
crate Boston" He took a most encour-
aging view OF the future Of the South
educatiCnally and industriaily.
| "a a. Nv nh,-c
| Daniels, editor of The Raleigh News
| and Observer, and a member of the
! national Democratic committee from
North Carolina. He started out by say
| ing that there have been four obsta-
| cles to educational progress in the
! South: l, The negro. onfranchisad
against the protest of the people. vino
were forced against their will to pay
| taxes to educate him: ?. Poverty
| grinding poverty, following war and
| reconstruction such as this generation
knows not of; 8. The lack Of qualified
| teachers and the lack of inducement
to capable men and women to become
| teachers; 4. Geographical difficulties
| The greatest OF these obstacles has
been and is now and must be at least
| in this generation. the negro He has
been the lion in the path, the ever pres
ert and often insurmountahle obstacle
to public education"
Mr.. Daniels took a hopeful view as
| to overcome ali these obstacles and
| touching the greatest. said In part:
There is class, and in that class,
believe most of the thoughtful people
OF the South are to be found, and feel
| that, whatever may be the result
they dare not shut the door of hope
and opportunity 10 any people any
! where-the negro in the South, the In
dian in The West, the Filipino in Ma
Mia. They hoped, they believed. they
trusted, that eventually it would prove
| beneficial, because they have faith that
light and knowledge will surely bles:
! wherever they abound.
The last speaker was DR.. J. H. Kirk
land. chancellor OF Vanderbilt Uaiver.
sity. who made an interesting talk or
teachers and the State. The conference
| then took recess until $3.50.
The fine audiences attending the ses
siors Of the Conference for Educator
have continued 10 the end. The Acad
emy OF Music was again thronged a.
night. the members OF the conferenc,
and the ladies with them being re
enforced by many Of the most promi
nent people Of the city, not only edu.
cationally speaking. but as respects so
oiety, the professions and all lines o
business and industry. The speaker,
were DR.. Walter B. Hill. chancellor o
the University OF Georgia. who spok,
on Negro Education ct the South
and Hamilton w. Mable. associate edi
tor, and DR.. Lyman Abbott. editor, o
the Outlook. New York
DR.. ADbott's theme was impression.
at the South" and he spoke eloquent
ly of the revival Of education repre-
sented by the conference. The highes
education, he said, is that for service
Industrial training, instead of bein;
looked down upon. should, and would
eventually, he believed, be regarded a
of the highest type in its direction. H
paid glowing tribute to the hos
pitality Of Richmond and expressed 10,
il the growing unity of the country
The civil war, he said, taught tn
North and South to respect each othe
as they had neTe er done before. Refer
ring to the suffrage, he quoted Henr,
Ward Beecher TO show that many mel
In the North believed that placing til
bollot in the hands of the negro coul'
not be a success Until the black ma
should ft himself to exercise the priv
ilege intelligent'y. The ballot is pre-
rogative and a responsibility. ne said
rather than right. Manhood suffrag
is the thing, he continued, but it mus
be remembered that manhood come
first and suffrage second. DR.. Abbot
closed with beautiful forecast CT wha
the present educational revival will Te
suit in, OF what the twentieth centur
will effect i'll the way of pcrfectin
manhood. He attributed the begiRnin
CT the present revival, by the way, t
a certain evangelist!c trip made som
II years ago through North Carolin
b ytwo young men, DR.. Alderman. pres
| i6e0t OF Tulane University, New O!
| leans, and Dir. McIver. president Of ID
Normal School, at Greensboro.