The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-29
FIREMAN AT MARION
DEAN OF PENNsYLvANIA UNI.
 vERSITY SPEAKS.
Paid Tribute to Educational Work in the South and Spoke of the Negro-Governor Heard
 in Marion.

Marion, May 2s.-(speciaD-Dr. Josiah H. Perriman. dean of the University of Pennsylvania, delivered an able address at the Marion Military Institute at Il o'clock today.
 speaking of the educational work in the South Dr. Perriman said: "I may be pardoned for paying on this occasion tr-Sute to the noble educational work now being done in the Southern States It is the education of the white man that is the real problem now and it is greatly to the credit of the South that this should be so. for it is the giving of a large pro- portion of the available taxes paid almost wholly by white men to the support of negro schools that has actually deprived the white population of schools they so much need. The Southern white man is paying for the education of the negro, and depriving himself and his children to do 1t.
 Consider what the conditions would be if all the taxes paid by white men for educational purposes were available for white schools. Of course 1t is impossible that this should ever be the case. but it brings the problem before us in a strik- ing manner to think that the men who pay the taxes are paying a third or even more of all the available funds which must be regarded an enormous burden. The present educational system of the South is only generation old. and. whei we consider the deplorable poverty at the close of the Civil War we can only wonder at and admire the enormous prog ress that has been made, especially in the matter of providing education for all at public expense Schools of all kinds have been founded often under the most un- favorable circumstances. and with ut terly insufficient appropriation. but year Ak-~ work as best hey could, enlarging and improving.
 Nowhere in the world has more won derful recuperative power or nobler zeal been displayed than in the Southern States. Poverty is always an obstacle to education. but the schools and colleges of the South have done remarkable work with small annual appropriations and in- comes. It is an interesting fact that in some of the Southern States the rate of taxation paid for education Is as great as that in Massachusetts. It is not the rate but the property on which the rate is paid that marks the difference. North Car olina, for example, with an area seven times as great as that of Massachusetts, and a population two-thirds as great. has only about one-tenth as much tax able property Similar comparisons might be made with some of the other Southern States.
 The education of the negro is impor- tant. but not so important as the educa- ton of the white man, who must be edu- cated to exercise wisely the dominance over the negro that. in the nature of things, he must exercise, whether educat- ed or not"
 The address was Suo of the ablest ever delivered to this people, and was appre- ciated by one of the most cultured audi = AL-A Ar. Id AI-H- city, among the number was noted Cover nor Heard of Louisiana and President Thach of the Polytechnic Institute at Au- burn together with other prominent men and women from this and other States.
 Today and tonight closes all of the school exercises. The progress made the past session has been good, much better than was anticipater considering at most a total crop failure last year. The attend leading people from various sections of the country.
 The Standard received news yesterday of the death of Mir. George c. Rogers, which occurred at the home of his daugh- ter Mrs. Garth fin Bryan, Tex, last week. MT. Rogers was born in North Carolina in 1913 and was 90 years old at the time of his death. He lived a while lcHIcSSSe, IuONiNS LO T-cIIy SOunly in 1883. He resided in Marion several years at which time he was editor and owner of The Marion Commonwealth. Two sons and five daughters survive him.
 Gov. W. W. Heard and wife of Louisi ana are stopping at the Marion Hotel. They are attending the commencement exercises of the Judson from which their daughter, Miss Eva, graduates this ses- sim COVernOr Heard ia a stranger here He was born and partly raised in Perry County, although he moved to Lou isiana many years ago. He is a close relative of J. L. and J. B. Ford of Ma rion.
 MT. M. F. Brooks. clerk and register of Escambia County. is attending com mencement exercises this week. He has a daughter attending the Judson.
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