Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-23
M'KELWAY FOR UNITY
Speaks at Educational Con-
ference in Richmond.
TELLS OF NEW ORDER
GLAD TO LET SECTIONAL AMI
MosITIEs PASS.
Large Attendance at This Morning 5
Observation-Disclosures Reports
of Delegates.
TELLS OF NEW ORDER

RICHMOND, Va. April 23.-PreSidehl
Ogden called the conference OF education u
order at the morning session. The attend
ance was very large. The first business was
receiving reports on field work. Jos D. Hfst-
ham of Alabama made the first report
showing the extent of the advancement III
legislation and individual effort for educa-
ton in his state. By comparison with h9
past history, he said. Alabama enters the
new century well equipped educatlonaIiy.
Dr. Charles w. Dabney of the University
of Tennessee followed. He said that one
of the great needs in the south was Men
and money to do more missionary WORK
among poor and isolated populations. The
people in one-half of the counties OF the
south are probably not able to support any
kind of decent school. even if they kno"
how to do So.
Reports were also made by DR.. Frizzel
of HAMPTON Va Dr. Edwin A. Alderman
of Louisiana and Dr. Mclvor of New ork
All We're encouraging. Dr. frlZzei naoe
the positive statement that Virginia was
not state in which illiteracy increased
faster than population
Dr. Alderman described interestingly the
educational campaign methods OF LOUIS
lana. and DR.. McIvor gave an interesting
account of the three systems for adVanc-
ing education in his state. 1t seemed 10 DE
the opinion that North Carolina made a
better showing than any OF the other states
reported upon.
st. Clair McKelway's Address.
The principal address of the morning ses-
sion was that of DR.. st. Clair Mckeiway
of the Brooklyn Eagle whose theme was
North and South. After declaring thai
1.-The contemporary north is in sympathy
with the contemporary SOUTH and thai
1.-The young captains and the young sol
| diers of industry refuse no reverence 70
the veterans of the civil war on either SIDE
| but the men of this generation are deter,
| mined to run it," DR.. Mckelway faid down
| these propositions which he elaborated II
the clearest and most earnest terms:
| 1.-THE sons will preserve and magnify the
| fame of their fathers, but they will no
| foster or fight over again their feuds, since
| the fathers themselves, an iliustrious and
| pathetcally thinning band, long ago re
| nounced rancOr and dissolved differences
| The affectiveS, both of the north and OF the
south, today believe in factories quite as
much as in pantheOnS, in energy more
than in inquests, and in schoolhouses more
| than in graves. A spent quarrel not of oul
| making and not of yours shall not be re
| vived or reworked to do the unmaklng o.
| either of us. We will filially honor the
| shades of our ancestors, but we will not Gu
| ourselves among their tombs. We viii
| honor as children their parents, the sur
| vivors of the struggle between the states.
Striking declarations in his address We're
| Better a decade of love and of peace thar
! a cycle of the mutilations and of the memo
ries of a civil war. And that with u
the tide of truth and of manhood has riSel
higher among the people than among Tia
managin politicians. There has been
manifest and an overwhelming reVol
iagainst the lowering conception of publ
Intelligence by beaten bosses, by mislead
Hing leaders. by discounted demagogueS AM
by stranded cranks.