The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-24
EDUCATION DISCUSSED
AT RICHMOND MEETING
Reports Made Showing Several States Per Cap
ita Expenditures for Education.
N. c. keWay Speaks


! ambiguous. The best place for US to
look for the best public is in our own
hearts. What there we find to be true
will be everywhere and everlastingIy
true. The things other men are think
ing about are the things we think
about when we think within ourselves
The statesman or the journalist who
does that becomes, by the laws of uni
versal nature, on confidential terms
with humanity. TO thine own self be
true, was the injunction of Polonius
10 Laertes. Know myself was the
injunction of d still greater philoso-
pher. Thereby comes courage. There
by comes strength. Thereby comes the
assurance which made the heart of
immortal: If God be for us who can
be against us'
/ The intense earnestness and the
equal simplicity which will follow
from the conjunction of our own heart
with the heart of the race will make
oratory justified, journalism unso-
phistical statesmen fearless and free.
1t would deliver us from the miserable
spectacle of Northern and Southern
senators and congressman voting for
what they condemn in their own minds,
yet voting for it, lest the rapacity or
the ignorance of their sections may
defeat them for reelection. The
wretched manifestations of men of his
toric names and flames talking drVel-
ing slush to rabble throngs would not
then challenge the scorn of man or
the judgment of heaven. The people of
both sections are far better than those
who give to them a low moral rating.
Their intelligence is far greater than is
that OF those who serve out to them
the food on which fools are fed. Read
ers better edit editors than editors
their papers when the latter put into
them anything which they know to be
wholly false or only partially true"
In closing he said: Fellow citizens,
let us remember the oneness of our
American derivation and destiny. 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 progress
through peace. Let us hail them as
but the prelude of still better days to
come. From this lakeland of time,
looking backward on the past, and for
ward on the future, let us strike hands
for the betterment of politics; for the
cleansing of rule; for the moral trus-
teeship of private wealth, and of pub
lie office; for the lifting of poverty,
S0ll-HeIps lllIO Juc
considerate leadership of ignorance
into knowledge; for the transmutation
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.
Another large audience, graced by
the wealth, culture and beauty of the
city, was present at this evenings ses-
sion of the conference for education at
the Academy of Music.
Gov. and Mrs. Montague were in
one of the boxes. President Cabell of
the Chamber of Commerce and Mrs.
Cabell were in another. The opening
speaker was DR.. L. H. Bailey, pro-
lessor of agriculture at Cornell Uni
versity, who discussed THE Forward
Movement in Agriculture" He was
followed by B. w. Caldwell, superin-
tendent of the Alabama State Normal
School, who told of educational condi-
tions generally in his state. The third
address of the evening was made by
DIR. Francis G.. Peabody of Harvard
University. His subject was "Knowl-
edge and Service"
At 1920 o'clock the conference ad-
journed for a supper at the Bazaar,
being held to raise funds for the pro-
posed arch in memory of Jefferson Da-
Wis.
1t was announced that a farewell
reception in honor of the conference
will be held at the executive mansion
tomorrow evening. Saturday will be
spent at the University of Virginia,
and the body will return here for the
proposed services in memory of the
late DR.. ]. L. M. Curry, which are to
be held next Monday.
At to-day's afternoon session the
opening topic was 1.-THE Consolidation
of Schools and Transportation of Pu-
pills. and the discussion was led by
George H. Halvey of Bridgewater, Va,
a one-aEmed Confederate veteran, and
G. P. Glenn, superintendent of schools
at Jacksonville, Fla. The concluding
address was made by w. w. Stetson,
superintendent of the schools of Maine
and P. P. Claxton, superintendent of
the summer school of the South, Knox
vile, Tenn. Their subject was 1.-THE
Model School"
Rev. DR.. ]. B. Hawthorne of Rich
mond, who was on the platform, was
called upon by President Ogden and
gave his ideas of what should be the
characteristics of a teacher.