The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-25
OGDEN is PRESIDENT
OF CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION
IN THE SOUTH.
OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN
ON THE CONCLUDING DAY OF THE
RICHMOND MEETING.

Walter Ii. Hill of the University OF
Georgia Spoke on "NegrO Educa-
ton in the south.
Richmond, Va, April 24-The at
tendance at the meetings of the confer
ence for education in the South to-day
was large and enthusiastic. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the en-
suing year:
President, Robert G.. Ogden of New
York; vice president, Edgar G. Murphy
of Montgomery; secretary, B. ]. Bald
win of Montgomery; treasurer, w. o.
Blair of Winston-Salem, N. c.
The Executive and Resolutions Com
mittees are:
Executive Committee-Chairntan b.
B. Valentine, Richmond; ]. G. Brown,
Raleigh; r. B. Fulton, Mississippi;
President Caldwell of the State Normal
School of louisiana; Supt. c. B. Glib
son, Columbus, Ca; d. F. Houston,
Texas; President LESSEE of the Uni
versity of Missouri; Supt. G. P. Glenn,
Jacksonville, Fla; S. A. Minders, Ten
nessee; H. H. Snider, South Carolina.
Resolutions Committee - Richard
Watson Glider, editor of the Century;
United States Attorney General T. G.
Krox; E. C. Branson, Georgia; State
SUPERINTENDENT Joyner of North Car
DINA; E. c. Sanford. Knoxville.
Lyman Hall a Speaker.
DR.. Lyman Hall of the Georgia In
stitute of Technology was the first
speaker at the morning session. lie
declared facetiously that if the move
ment continued it's work the people Of
the South would be talking of dark
est New England" and referring to
"iLiterate Boston," He took a most
encouraging view of the future of the
South educationally and industrially.
The next address was by Josephus
Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News
and Observer. and member of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee from
North Carolina. He started out by
saying that there have been four OBJ
| stacles to educational progress In the
| South: First, the negro, enfranchtSed
| against the protest of the people, who
were forced against their will TO pay
taxes to educate him; second, poverty
grinding poverty, following war and
reconstruction such as this generation
| KNOWS HOl Ola lIlI0s lllC AoNh VI AOe1A-
| flied teachers and the lack of induce
ment to capable men and women TO
| become teachers; fourth, geographical
| difficulties.
1.-THE greatest of these obstacles"
| Mr.. Daniels said. land is now and
must be, at least in this generation, the
negro. He has been the lion in the
path, the ever present and often insur-
| mountab1e obstacle to public education.
Want Door of Hope Open.
Mr.. Daniels took a hopeful view as
| to overcoming all these obstacles, and
| touching the greatest, said in part
There is a class, and in the class 1
believe most of the thoughtful people
of the South are to be found-who feel
that whatever may be the result they
| dare not shut the door of hope and
| opportunity to any people anywhere
| the negro in the South the Indian in
the West, the Filipino in Manila"
They hoped, they believed, they trust
| ed that eventually it would prove bene-
| fetal, because they have faith that
| light and knowledge will surely bless
wherever they abound.
The last speaker was DR.. j. II. Kirk
| land, chancellor of Vanderbilt Uni
| versity, who made an interesting talk
on teachers and the state.
The conference then took a recess
until $3.50 p. m.
The fine audiences attending the ses-
sions of the conference for education
have continued to the end. The Acad-
envy of Music was again thronged to-
| night, the members of the conference
| and the ladies with them being REIN
| forced by many of the most prominent
| people of the city, not only education
ally speaking, but as respects society,
the professions and all lines of bust
ness and industry. The speaker were
r. Fulton Cutting of New York, whose
subject was THE Responsibility of
Government for Public Education;"
DR.. Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the
University of Georgia, who spoke on
! NEGRO Education at the South" and
Hamilton w, Mabie, associate editor,
and DR.. Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Outlook, New York.
DIR. AbbOtts Talk.
DIR. Abbotts theme was Impressions
of the Conference" and he spoke elo-
quently of the revival of education
represented by the conference. The
highest education, he said, lis that for
service. Industrial training, instead of
being looked down upon, should and
would, eventually, be believed he re-
garded as of the highest type in its
direction.
He paid a glowing tribute to the
hospitality of Richmond, and express
ed joy in the growing unity of the
country. The Civil War taught the
North and South to respect each other
as they had never done before.
Referring to the suffrage, DR.. Abb
bolt quoted Henry Ward Beecher to
show that many men in the North be-
lieved that placing the ballot in the
hands of the negro could never be a
success until the negro should fit him
self to exercise the privilege intelli-
gently. The ballot is a prerogative and
a responsibility, rather than a right.
Manhood suffrage is the thing, but it
must be remembered that manhood
comes first and suffrage second.
DIR. Abbott closed with a beautiful
forecast of what the present educa-
tional revival will result in, of what
the twentieth century will effect in the
way of perfecting manhood. He at
| tributed the beginning of the present
revival, by the way, to certain evan
| gelistic trip made some fourteen years
ago through North Carolina by two
young men. DR.. Alderman, president of
| the Tulane University. New Orleans,
and DIR. McIver, president of the nor
NAL school at Greensboro, N. G.
Richard Watson Glider of New York,
as chairman of the Committee on
Resolutions, preceded Or. Abbot with
| an eloquent expression of the thanks
OF the conference for the hospitality
extended at Richmond. and President
! Continued on Fifth Page.)