The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-19
Conference For Education in
South Begins Wednesday.
HUNDREDS WILL COME.
They Want TO Help the South in Her
% Noble Effort For Popular Im-
provenentT True Spirit Of
q sa Brotherhood. M

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Wednesday afternoon OF this week the
great conference for Education In the
South, will begin at the Academy of
Music. In this city. "
s, The occason&1s SO great in It's import
;ance and SO b far-reaching in It's results
as to attract TO Richmond at this time
+ the most 4 distinguished large company
|of citizens Of the United States that
has ever visited the city. Not only do
they come from the North, but from the
South and the West. They come. giving
their time and money to- discuss qules-5
tions Of general popular educati ton, and AM
above all to arouse the people Of the
whole country to a fuller real lization OF
the necessity for popular education as the,
remedy for u Thousand evils. present
and prominent In American civilization,
and solution OF many problems that
for years have beset and baffled enlight-3
5ened thought. y; & N H
Northern people who love the whole
country. who have forgotten two pas
sIons, which engendered and were enguid-l
4 ed by the war between the States. have
undertaken to help the South help her her
self.
S No grander spectacle has been before,
the eyes OF all nations than the effort the
South has been making since the devas-.
tation& OF the war to recover the ground
lost then in wealth and the general condi-
tion OF her people. The undertaking was
enormous. The South's resources We're
ex usted, 3 all the people we're poor. prac-
sticaIly, and they we're hampered by me-
ff,. nrnhlar1a nraHant tad
themselves at once, how to bring about
those general conditions which foster the
healthy development Of the country's re-
sources and how to educate her children.
From the gloomy day Of Appomattox
down to the present. she has been striv-,
ing for industrial and educational growth
tor in these two are the safety Of q na-
stionand the happiness q. of people. Ihose
who have looked on have not failed to
note with pleasure and pride In their
B "a CO the honesty OF motive and firmness
5of {purpose displayed by the South. Wlth-
out asking help from a ny, she has proud
Nv shouldercd her burden n and moved
along, Not a murmer has escap ped her
lips. Though the negro, egged and abet-
ted by those who prospered to be his
friends, has done much to pull her back
and humiliate her she has divided her
half loaf with him all the time, un-
N WAS NOT: EVER THUS.
years ago the North did not know the
south q I Well as now, broad minded peo-
4nle there did not know tho conditions here
MS they do now and many honest people
believed that the South mated the ne
gro and was mot DONG 5hers pest 10y nm,
But things have changed. What with
coming in touch with Southern people
Nv coming here or Southern people going
there. What with reading Southern news
IA pers and reports on education from the
south, they have become convinced that
the South has been working out It's own
salvation in the proper way, that this
country Sj has risen with reHarKaple
growth from its own ashes and that It
q is now doing all 1t can to help all its
neople. white and coored alike. Broad
minded gpeople of the North who have
Bbaen watching the South now come for-
ward ana say to Southern men; You
are right, brothers, You are doing your
lest ard we want to help you all we can
to continue the work as you nave mapped
1t out. VIII you let us K
f'i 4 nnroa Z het, tGGs - y, spirIt of Blindness
wIthoutlth suggestion of patronage. the
South has gratefully answered. ]" Yes"
Vi! With this end In view, the Conference
Fis "a 3be held this week. that the North
and South may talk over the situation
and that both may be aroused and wax
ened to a fuller sense OF tho splendid OPP
portunlty that's pressing upon them
COME ON srEr,aAr. ssrt nraa,dent .IMMiN ~ tbe
r,ichn,ond Education Association, has as
s,Hnas homes to not less than four huns
drad nersons. Many more than these will
some. she stated yesterday afternoon
hat sbe had just received q great pack
81 III letters y from persons who at the last
minute have decided to come hut the
homes are practically exhausted and thls
IN ~ inu houses. II would not be surprising
- iSn 'six hundred people come, and there is
hardly q doubt of five hundred being
here ,ere'i from the Arst meeting,
"yI The first detachment. consisting Of
president Ogden and n New York and
Boston party, will reach Mere Tuesday
night on a special train. About one huns
80 gTS,ND,tt,,ad on Seven III FsagN r