The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-04-30
EDUCATORS MEET.
W. A. Blair, Of WinstOn.Salem, Treas
urer, for the Ensuing Year.
OGDEN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
Dr. Alderman and DR.. Mclver Re-
sponsibIe for the Beginning of the
Present Revival.


ance at the meetings OF the Conference
for Education in the South was large
and enthusiastic. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing
year: President. Robert c. Ogdon, OF
New York; vice president. Edgar e.
Murphy, of Montgomery, Ala; secre-
lary, B. j. Baldwin, Of Montgomery,
Ala; treasurer, w. A. Blair, OF WIN
ston-Salem, N. c. The executive ana
resolutions committees are: Executive:
Chairman, B. B. Valentine, Richmond;
]. G. Brown, Raleigh, N. c.; r. B. Full
ton, Mississippi; President Caldwell, OF
the State Normal School of Liuisiana;
Superintendent C. B. Gibson, Colum-
bus, Ca; D. F. Houston, Texas; Presl-
dent Jesse. OF the University OF Mis-
souri,; Superintendent G. P. Glenn,
Jacksonville, Fla; S. A. Minders. Ten
nessee; H. H. Snider, South Carolina;
committee on resolutions, Richard
Watson, Glider, editor of The Century;
United States Attorney General P. C..
Knox; E. C. Bronson, Georgia; State
Superintendent Joyner, North Caro-
lima; C. C. Sanford, Knoxville, Tenn.
DR.. Lyman Hall, Of the Georgia In
stitution of Technology, was the first
speaker at the morning session. He de-
clared facetiously that II the move
ment continued it's work, the people OF
the South would be talking Of Darkest
New England and referring to "illit-
crate Boston" He took most encour-
aging 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
national Democratic committee from
North Carolina. He started out by say
ing that there have been four obsta-
cles to educational progress in the
South: /. The negro, enfranchised
against the protest Of the people, who
were forced against their will to pay
taxes to educate him; 2. Poverty.
grinding poverty, following war and
reconstruction such as this generation
knows not Of; 8. The lack Of qualified
teachers and the lack OF inducement
to capable men and women to become
teachers; 4. Geographical difficulties.
The greatest of these obstacles 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 pres
ent and often insurmountable obstacle
to public education"
Mr.. Daniels took a hopeful view as
to overcome all these obstacles and
touching the greatest. said in part:
There Is a class, and in that class,
believe most of the thoughtful people
of the South are to be found, and feel
that. whatever may be the result,
they dare not shut the door Of hope
and opportunity to any people any
where-the negro in the South, the In
dian in the West, the Filipino in Ma
Mia. They hoped, they believed, they
trusted, that eventually 1t would prove
beneficial, because they have faith that
light and knowledge will surely bless
wherever they abound.
The last speaker was Dr.. ]. H. Kirk
land, chancellor of Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, who made an interesting talk on
teachers and the State. The conference
then took a recess until $3.50.
The fine audiences attending the ses-
sions of the Conference for Education
have continued 10 the end. The Acad-
emy of Music was again thronged at
night, the members of the conference
and the ladies with them being re-
enforced by many Of the most promi-
nent people of the city, not only edu-
catiolally speaking. but as respects So
ciety, the professions and all lines Of
business and industry. The speakers
were DR.. Walter B. Hill, chancellor Of
the University Of Georgia. who spoke
on Negro Education at the South"
and Hamilton w. Mable. associate edi-
tor, and DR.. Lyman Abbott, editor, Of
the Outlook, New York.
DR.. Abbott's theme was Impressions
at the South" and he spoke eloquent
ly Of the revival Of education repre-
sented by the conference. The highest
education, he said, Is that for service.
Industrial training, instead of being
looked down upon, should, and would,
eventually, he believed, be regarded as
of the highest type in its direction. He
paid a glowing tribute to the hos
pitality of Richmond and expressed Joy
in the growing unity of the country.
The civil war, he said, taught the
North and South to respect each other
as they had never done before. Refer
ring to the suffrage, he quoted Henry
Ward Beecher to show that many men
in the North believed that placing the
bollot in the hands Of the negro could
not be success until the black man
should fit himself to exercise the priv
ilege intelligently. The ballot is pre-
rogative and a responsibility, he said,
rather than a right. Manhood suffrage
is the thing, he continued, but it must
be remembered that manhood comes
first and suffrage second. DR.. Abbott
closed with beautiful forecast OF what
the present educational revival will re-
suit in, of what the twentieth century
will effect in the way Of perfecting
manhood. He attributed the beginning
of the present revival, by the way, to
a certain evangelistic trip made some
IA years ago through North Carolina
ytwo young men. Dr.. Alderman, pres
ident Of Tulane University, New Or
leans, and DR.. McIver. president Of the
Normal School, at Greensboro.
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