The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-28
Conference for Education Had
 Two Sessions Yesterday
REPORTS FROM THE FIELD
Walter H. Page Made Closing Address Last Night-Today's Programme
 Includes Two Business Ses- :. sions and Trip to Ensley.

IN sessions of the Conference for Education in the South, which is holding its seventh annual meeting at the Jefferson theatre Two sessions were held, the first in the morning at 10 o'clock and the second last night at 8 o'clock.
 At the morning session the orchestra circle and the dress circle were comfort ably filled, while there were many people ! in the gallery. At night all three floors \ were crowded to their capacity and a large number found standing room only. { There was a social reception at the Hotel Hillman in the afternoon from 3 to 8.
 Two splendid addresses were delivered Hast night, one by Prof c. Alphonso Smith of North Carolina on ''The Prac- tical and the Literary In National Life" and the other by Walter H. Page. editor of Worlds Work" on The Profit of Right Training"
 The conference meeting will come to an end tonight. Two sessions will be held, the first this morning at 10 o'clock and ! the second tonight at o'clock.
 Today's Programme. The following is the programme for to- \day:
 10 a. m-"Local Taxation for Public Ed lcation'
 Addresses by:
 Mir H. O. Murfee of Marion, Ala.
 Hon. H. L. Whitfield. state superintend- Int of education of Mississippi.
 Hon. Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the University of Georgia.
 Hon. Sydney J. Bowie. member of con- Wgress from the Fourth Alabama district.
 At 8 o'clock the visitors will be taken Aon trip to Ensley, where the steel mills and other industries will be -'isited The pecial cars conveying the party will
 ave the Bijou theatre corner of Third
 venue and Seventeenth street, just one
 ock north of the Jefferson theatre, at y o'clock promptly. The cars will go to V rnsley vil one route, returning over the other. The party will return to the city Rt 6 o'clock.
 S. D. m-"The North and the South in the Conference for Education," by Dr.. John Graham Brooks of Cambridge, Mass.
 Some Impressions of the Conference" by Rt Rev Davis Sessums, LL.D., bishop of Louisiana.
 At midnight tonight President Robert c. Ogden's party will return to New York ' the visitors will return to their homes to- night or tomorrow morning. At the city hall. where the bureau of Ninformation is established, it was report ed officially that up to last night 76S vis- itors had registered h This morning at o'clock an educa- \ tional meeting will be held at the city hall to which the visitors are cordially invited to attend.
 \ Yesterday Mornings Session.
 The morning session of the conference vesterday was devoted to hearing re- ports from the field.
 H. l.. Whitfield of Mississippi, superin tendent of education. was introduced by President Ogden. The speaker discussed the educational conditions existing in his state, saying that three years ago he organized campaign for better schools which proved successful He declared to the conference that Bishop Galloway had been his main-stay in bettering the con- ditions in Mississippi. He was applaud p ed.
 President Ogden read a telegram from Governor Blanchard of Louisiana, ex- pressing regrets at being unable to at tend the conference.
 Dr. H. B. Frssell, president of Hamp- ton Institute at Hampton, Virginia, was then introduced by President Ogden. He told of the educational progress of the state of Virginia. saying that much good had resulted from the plan adopted to send men from county to county arous- ing the people to the value of education His reference to the work of Governor A. | Montague of Virginia for the better ment of the school brought forth ap- plause.
 Dr. Charles w. Dabney president of the University of Tennessee, made in- teresting address to the conferenc, plead ing for the education of the mountain boys" as he described them. Eliininat- ing the cities he showed that the per centage of illiterarcy among this class of people was almost one-hah.
 pr. Edwin A. Alderman of New Or leans, president of Tulane University, was called upon by the president for re- port. He told of the wonderful educa- tional work his people were doing, aided by the educational committee. The cam paign of enlightenment he declared, must continue
 superintendent Myndus' Report.
 The first report from the field was that of Hon. S. A. Myndus. state superintend- ent of education of Tennessee.
 His address follows:
 ..Tennessee was the first state form ed out of territory to be admitted into the union, and 1t is the only state that at the time of it's admission into the union, found the title to its public lands vested in the general government and not in the state or township. The liberal policy of the federal government in pro- viding for public education in states formed out of territory was not adopted until six years after Tennessee became state and was not made to apply to Tennessee until two years thereafter. Tennessee's Share.
 When the state did receive the bene- fit of the act 1t should have received four hundred and forty-four thousand. four hundred and forty-four acres. but in fact received only twenty-two thousand,