The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-28
EDUCATION
Campaign for More and
Better Schools in the
South
WAR NOW ON
The Great Conference for Education
in the SOuth-Massachusetts Pays
Nearly Eight Times as Much as
lei to Educate Her Chill
ing A Northern Editor Talks
PhfIOsophy-The Reports from the
States Encouraging.

Richmond, Va, April 23.-President
Ogden called the conference for educa-
ton in the south to order today. The
attendance was very large. The first
business was reports on field work.
Jos. E. Graham, Of Alabama, made the
advancement in Legislation and individ-
ual effort for education in his state.
By comparison with it's past history.
He said, Alabama enters the new CEN
fury we'll equipped educationally.
DR.. Charles w. Dabney, of the Uni
versity of Tennessee, gave some inter-
esting statistics, among them these:
The amount expended for schools per
capita for children between the ages of
5 and 20 is in Tennessee, 1922, in Ken
lucky 1922; Texas 1888; Minnesota $3.50;
s1O.91; Colorado Sill; California s16.44;
Massachusetts $17.79.
Massachusetts pays nearly eight times
as much for the common school educa-
ton Of each of her children as does
Tennessee. One of the great needs in
the south, he said, was men and mon
ey to do more missionary work among
the poor and isolated populations. The
people in one-half of the counties of
the south are probably not able to sup
port any kind of a decent school,. even
if they know how to do So"
Reports were also made by DR.. Friz-
zell, Of Hampton, Va, DR.. Edwin A.
Alderman, of Louisiana, and DIR. Nc
Iver, of North Carolina. All were en-
c~ouraging. DR.. Frizzell made the posi-
tive statement that Virginia was not a
state in which illiteracy increased fas-
ter than the population. DR.. Alderman
described the educational campaign
methods of Louisiana, and DR.. McIver,
of North Carolina, gave an account of
the three systems for advancing edu-
cation in his state. 1t seemed to be the
opinion that North Carolina made a
better showing h any of the other
states reported upon.
st. Clair McKelway, of the Brooklyn
Eagle, made an address, North and
South" in which ne said:
THE sons will preserve and magni-
fly the fame of their fathers, but they
will not foster or light ever again their
feuds, since the fathers themselves. an
Ilustrious and pathetically thinning
band. long ago renowned rancor and
dissolved differences. Let what the
people that may elect to do otherwise,
the electives, both of the North and of
the SOUTH, today believe in factories. |
quite as much as in p~antheons, in en-.
ergy more han in inquests. and in
school houses more han in graves. A |
spent quarrel not Of our making and
not Of us. shall not be revived or re-
worked to do the u%nmaking of either
OF US. We will honor, as children their |
parents, the survivors of the struggle
between the states.
Striking declarations in his address
We're:
Better a decade of love and Of peace
than a cycle of mutilations and of the
memories of a civil war.
With us the tide of truth and OF
manhood has risen higher among the
people than among the managing politi-
clans. There has been a manifest and
an overwhelming revolt against the
lowering conception OF public intelii-
gence by beaten bosses, by misleading
leaders, by discounted demagogues and
by stranded cranks.
In closing, he said:
Fellow citizens. let US remember the
oneness of u American deviation
and destination. Let US be thankful
that in the baptism of blood all serious
causes of division and reproach were
purified away. Let US be grateful for
the years of peace through progress and
Of nrnpracs rhro,,rl 90
them as but the prelude of still better
days to come. From this table-land of
time, looking backward on the past. and
forward o. the future, let US strike
hands for the betterment of politics.
for the cleansing Of rule: for the moral
trusteeship of private wealth and of
public affairs; for the uplifting of pow
erty through self help. into comfort:
for the considerate leadership of ignor-
ance n knowledge; for the transmit
tation of provincialism into patriotism.
and Of patriotism into philanthropy"
At the conclusion of the address the
conference took a recess until $3.50 p. m
At today's afternoon session of the I
the opening topic was The :
Consolation of schools and the Trans ,
.portation of Pupils nj the discussion I
led by gorge H. Halvey, of Bridge {
water, Va. a one-armed Confederate I
and G.. P. Glenn, supertnten- s
lent of schools at Jacksonville. Fla. l
The concluding addresses were made :
w. W. Stetson, superintendent OF :
schools of Maine. and P. H. CIax- r
superintendent Of the Summer +
school Of the South, Knoxville, Tenn.
Their subject was 1.-The Model School,"
Rev. j. B. Hawthorne. of Richmond,
Who was on the platform was called
lpon by President Ogden, and gave his!