The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-04-28
TIE EDUCATIONAL cONFFR
SNCE
South Has Seen Generous to the Ne.
gro in Matter Of Education

South Has Seen Generous to the Ne
gro in Matter Of Education
The valuable result of this conference
Tor education in the South. said Pr,f
Minis, OF Trinity College. North Carolina
+ : that II Il teaching prominent North
era thinNers writers and speakers that
the Southerners are themselves WORKING
out their probe ms in ihe best wav thar
they can be solved
Industrial and Technical Training
was the subject presented at Friday :
session of the conference. DR. LYMAN
Hall. president of the Georgia Institute
. oi Technology made a strong plea for the
INDUSTRIAL education OF the white BOYS
VINO nave been almost neglected 10y the
phllanthropists. who have poured mil
mons ot dollars into colored institutions
Ike Hampton and Tuskegee. He declar
ell that IN the South neither racial nr,i
uulce nor trades uniOnism closed the
uoor ol opportunity To the negro A.
tncy DO IN some parts of the North AND
thnt the negro worker was better treat
80 IN the South than ia any other mart
81 the country.
he negro has been the lion in the
pain. the prescnt and often the insur
iuouniahie obstacle To education i'm the
south. declared Jusephus Daniels edi
w '"N ANNANAAN =. 7 news and ola
rerNer. IN ~ speech on educational con5i.
lions In the South
The nakei truth il that the bulk NJ m.
money that has gone To eduratinn hos
been given against the Judgment of the
b southern taxpayer
w hen Northern people come to the
T south To teach the negro aud in some
cases s-ociated with him on terms az
equality. l. it any wonder that many
southern people believed that the North
erhers We're try ing 10 put the bottom
+ rail ON top'r
Most Of the Southern people are on
, posed 10 the methods that have been t,,,r.
sued M eiucAtiug the negro They know
/ that the uplifting Of the negro j. n slo,y
/ process aad that giving him book learning
/ does not change his nature Records i'm
bn-tNn. W here the negro j. hest ,,fnrated
show that he there furnishes the LARGEST
proportion Of criminals. But no man j.
opposed To the Industrial education If
the negro. and we all applaud Mr.. An.
drew carnegie = great g,it 10 Tu-kepee
Institute
ne Southern people. as "A whole. do
not believe in the hig her education Of th,,
great body of the negroes. but they would
NOT close the door Of hope 10 any race
negro. Indian or Filipino"
DR.. Kirkland. chancellor of Vanderbilt
IniVerslty, made an address on The
Teacher and the State
President +. b. Nenable. Of the Ioiyer-
Sity OF North Carolina told of the work
oi the University ia the Southern States
and froi X. +. Mitchell. of Richmond
college, pointed out the duty of the citi
zen in aiding public education.
Local Taxation for Public Schools
was the principal topic discussed. DR.. G.
X. Glenn, of Georgia
President Robert C. Ogden. Of New
York, was reelected. b. b. Valentine
oil Richmond. Is chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee
EDUCATORS At rNIVERslrN-CoNfrRE
WARMLY WELCOMED BY THE FACULTY
At CHARLOTTESVILLE
IN adjourned meeting OF the sixth SEES
sion of the conference for education in
the south, which convened in Richmond
on the 22i, was held at the university
Saturday afternoon. This distinguished
body, with Robert c. Odgen. of New
ork. at its head, and accompanied by
the Richmond Educational Association
came up in n special train The car were
switched on siding at the university
and the four or five hundred visitors
were taken charge Of by the members OF
the faculty and their wives and other
ladies' and gentlemen of the community
VINO acted as guides about the grounds
and in the buildings
After the sightseeing the crowJ ~.
sembed In the large auditorium. where
an address OF welcome was delivered nv
DR.. Panl y. Barringer, chairman of ,Ls
faculty, TO which a cordial response was
.hsde by Mt Ogden, president of the con-
terence Dr Charles ". Kent, of the chair
OF tnghsh literature in the university.
delivered an address on the relation q,
the university to the public schools
DR. Francis G Peabody. Of H.
University, also spoke DR.. Charles w
DAbney. OF the University of Tennessee
explained the South's relation to This
movement. and Prof Richard Hasth
Da6ney, OF the university. addressed tbe
conference on Thomas Jefferson in nj.
Relations 10 Education"
At o clock an elaborate luncheon wa.
served to the educators. This tool oIaca
In the rotunds The special train con.
tanning the visitors, left for Richmond an
( o'clock Nv
President Ogden, of the Educational
Conference mas received an interesting
c0inhuhlcation from the colored people
VI hShnond- The latter expresses the
thanks for the work the conference has
undertas en- and is doing for the bIarI,
as well as the whites, and says fnrIber
among other things:
The negroes Of Richmond have nj.
ways been able to live in peace and har-
mony with the white race. The same
kindly feeling with coursed in the veins
OF the nanny and bodyiservant OF by
gone days exists to-day. We have lived
here and Prnepered, and thousands 81
~ rejoice IN the possession OF our own
vine and tig tree, with none to make us
afraid. There exists no personal feelings
oil antego nism between the white citizen
and the colored citizen of Richmond who
are TO the manor born ones trouble is
the Others trouble. and what benefits
one benefits the other"
Voted on Iiauor Questinn