Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-24
.EDUCAT|0NI INV SOUTH
DR.. LYMAN Hall Takes Hope
full View.
.CHAFFS NEW ENGLAND
FACETIOUSLY REFERS TO "IL-
LITERATE BOSTON,
Tells of the Obstacles Encountered in
Establishing Educational System
After the War,

RICHMOND, Va, April A.-The attend
ance at the educational conference this
morning was large and enthusiastic.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
President. Robert c. Ogden of New York;
vice president, Edgar g. Murphy Of Mont
gomery, Ala; secretary. B. J. Baldwin Of
Montgomery Ala: treasurer, w. O. Blair of
Winston Salem, N. C. Mr.. B. B. Valentine
Of this city was made chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee.
The remainder of the session was devot-
ed to addresses. DR.. Lyman Hall of the
Georgia Institute Of Technology was the
first speaker. He declared facetiously that
If the movement continued it's work the
people of the south would be talking of
Darkest New England" and referring to
'Illiterate Boston" He took a most en-
couraging view of the future Of the south
educationally and industrially.
Address by Editor Daniels.
The next address was by Josephus DAN
iels editor of the Raleigh News and OBJ
cratic committee from North Carolina. He
four obstacles to educational progress in
the south: 80.
Il. The negro, enfranchised against the
protest of the people who were forced
against their will to pay taxes to educate
him.
80 Poverty-g grinding poverty-following
war and reconstruction such as this gem
GRAFTON knows not of.
''3. The lack of qualified teachers and the
lack of inducement to capable men and wo-
men to become teachers
4. Georgia's physical difficulties
"These four obstacles but the greatest
of these 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
present and often insarmountable obstacle
to public education"
He took a hopeful view as to overcoming
all these obstacles, and, touching the great
est, said in part:
There is a class and in the class I be-
lieve most of the thoughtful people of the
south are to be found-who feel that, what
ever may be the result, they dare not shut
the door of hope and opportunity which
education will open to any people anywhere
the negro In the south, the Indian in the
west, the Filipino in Manila. They hope,
they believe, they trust, that eventually it
will prove beneficial, because they have
faith that light and knowledge will surely
bless wherever they abound" ..,
The Teacher and the State.
The last speaker was DIR. ]. H. Kirkland,
chancellor of Vanderbilt University, who
made an interesting talk on teacher and the
state. The conference then took a recess
until $3.50 pm.
The full executive and resolutions COM
naittees are:
Executive committee-Chairman B. B.
valentine, Richmond; j. G. Brown, Raleigh
N. c.; r. B. Fulton. Mississippi; President
Caldwell Of the state normal school of
louisiana; Superintendent c. B. Gibson
Columbus, Ga; D. F. Houston, Texas:
President Jesse of the University of Mis-
souri,; Superintendent G. P. Glenn Jack
sonvllle, Fla; S. A. Minders, Tenn; H. H.
Snider, s. c.
Commission on resolutions-Richard Wat
son Glider. editor of the Century; United
States Attorney General John B. Knox, E.
Z. Bronson, Georgia; State Superintendent
Joyner. North Carolina; E. c. Sanford
Knoxville, Tenn. 10,