The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-24
Dr. Dabney Speaks on the Need of Men and
Money to do Missionary Work in
the South
ADDRESS BY DR.. McIVER
81. Clair McKeIway Follows With an Eloquent
Speech on the North and South---Re-
ports by Drs. Alderman, Frz-
zsII and Others,
(By the Associated Press.)


Richmond, Va. April 23.-President
Ogden called the conference for education
in the South to order today The attend
ance was very large. The first business
was reports on field work. Joseph B.
Graham, of Alabama. made the first re-
port, showing the extent of the advance
ment I'M legislation and individual effort
in his State. In his comparison with its
past history he said, Alabama enters the
new century well equipped educationally.
DR.. Charles d. Dabney of the University
of Tennessee. gave some interesting sta
tistics. among these:
THE amount expended for schools per
capita for children between the ages of
five an dtwenty is: In Tennessee, 81. .32;
in Kentucky, 1922: Texas, 1888; Mime
sofa. 1888; Michigan, $500; Ohio, 1894
New York. $1091: Colorado, s1111 Cali
fornia, 1854; Massachusetts. $17.79.
Massachusetts pays thus nearly eight
times as much for the common school
education of each of her children as does
Tennessee.
Vhe VI the BTedLeSL sueeOS III the SOutl
he said, was men and money to do more
missionary work among poor and isolated
populations. The people in one half OF
the counties of the South are probably
not able to support any kind of a decent
school, even if they knew how to do so.
Report swere also made by Dr. Frizzell
of Hampton. Va. Dr. Edward A. Alder
man of Louisiana, and DIR. McIver. of
North Carolina. All were encouraging
DIR. Frizzell made the positive statement
that Virginia was not State in which
ilHteracy increased faster than popula
ton. DIR. Alderman described the educa
tional campaign methods of Louisiana and
DR.. McIver gave an account of three sys
TENS for advancing education in his State
1t seemed to be the opinion that North
Carolina made better showing than anv
OF the other States reported upon. st.
Clair McKelway, of the Brooklyn Eagle
made an address on North and South +"
in which he said among other things:
My friends: Those for whom and with
whom l have the honor to speak would
bring to those to whom have the honor
to speak the greeting of the North to
the South. New York, from which l
come, and Virginia in whose capital city
l speak, belong to the aristocracy of
America. They are numbered among the.
original Thirteen. Both are battle
SCARED with revolutionary suffering and
crowned with revolutionary triumphs
Both have been united to defend the
Union against every foreign foe Both
are unit in the spirit of right be-
tween men and of justice between States
which makes and which alone can keep
the Republic peace. **%
The contemporary North is in sym
pathy with the contemporary South We
recognize that with you, as with us,
the folk who face toward the future
outnumber those who face toward the
past by many to one. The young cap
tains and the young soldiers OF industry
refuse no reverence to the veterans of
the Civil War on either side, but the
men of this generation are determined to
run it. The sons will preserve and will
magnify the fame of their fathers but
they will not foster or fight over again
their feuds, since the fathers them
selves, an illustrious and a pathetically
thinning band, long ago renounced rancor
and dissolved differences. Let what peo-
pie that may elect to do otherwise, the
electives both of the North and of the
South, today believe In factories quite as
much as in pantheons, in energy more
than in inquests and in school houses
more than in graves spent quarrel
not of our making and not of yours,
shall not be revived or reworked to the
unmaking of either of u.s. We wsll
hlially honor the shades of our ancestors,
but we will not put ourselves among their
tombs. Better decade of love and
OF peace than a cycle of the mutilations
and OF the memories of a Civil War!
TWO SECTIONS ONE IN FEELING.
Let what have said explain and jus
tiy my omission to dwell on sentimental
Ilhes oil allusion. Frankly | think those
hnes have been overworked There was
reason Tor accentuatips them until few
years ago. The reason ceases when the
object was attained s*s With MS there
is no race question that comes as near
TO us as our doors. With YOU there is
Beside, there are not so many of Won
as there are of US, nor among Won is
there SO large proportion of those who
differed from you in the mast as tho
case is with us. The number of neonIo
determines the quantity of government
The quantity of government determines
the number of preferments In the same
way the amount of population determines
the volume OF business, and that in turn
determines the appeal of ability to op-