The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-30

and of the possibilities of the land in which they lived, filling them with ouenchiess zeal for their people.
 The Chinese Prince Pu Lun now visit ing in this country has been amazed at American education. Among other things he has said
 'T have been most surprised to find tifat every man and woman in America is educated. This. believe, is the bas- is of the success of the American peo- rle One of his aides General Wong. | in making a plea for the easy admis- l sion to the United States of Chinese students, has said. "One fourth of the Chinese students who were in this country when I was in college have since fallen in battle. shot in front. | To get shot in front was something
 they learned in America" | It's so easy as we read history to | feel that the great deeds have all been done and that we have just missed our chance by arriving too late. But the
 men who are doing the worlds work
 without having time to talk about 1t would tell you that there never were
 better openings for constructive states manship than are confronting the pres ent genel ation. Be of strong heart young men. urge you to look to your own education. to lay hold of your l own ODDOFIuultleSt lkkfAb yON ut0S S0ANO the State, the Church, and the Univer-
 sity in your day. You men of Alabama have your. own problems to face, ser ious ones that have been perplexing the South for a generation, the most im- portant of which are those having to do with the facilities for elementary,
 secondary and industrial education off-
 cred to every member of this Common
 wealth Not the least serious one of these is the newest one presented by 1.-the coming of ai1 sorts from the North and South of Europe into your mills and factories, into your cities and on to your farms. In the face of this in- Aux of foreigners into, this great State
 of Alabama may all intelligent. educa- ted, highminded citizens of this Com monwealth, combine themselves. sup can. ecclesiastical. dogmatical politi- cal. to mould the people into a strong hodv of highminded, patriotic, Christ lian citizens of the Nation. For your encouragment and inspiration in the
 presence of these educational problems of civilization I beg to remind you of the most honorable place occupied by constructive ideas of southern origin fin the educational history of our coun- try.
 Among the clements of-American ed- ucational systems that we owe largely I to the South I may mention the cleo .ive system in collegiate feducatton, the T pubIic school idea fin popular education, | tEk importance of individual instruct I ion as exhibited in the private schools,
 tutors and governesses of the old re-
 zine. the honor system and the prinei- pIe of self government in the adminis- tratIon of school discipline as exhibited SO splendldIy in this place. the Rugby l of America-.while as to the reorganiz- ation of the American college. the men | who I believe hold the key to the sit Iuation is man of southern birth, Woodrow Wilson. thirteenth president of Princeton University.
 Every southern man and woman Eshould read with intelligence and dis | crimination Edgar Gardner Murphy s l recent book op Problems of the Pres ent South-a discussion of certain Of the educational, industrial and politl- | cal issues in the Southern States.
 And now one word as to the kind or practical philanthropy I had in mind.
 Educational institutions need what all human institutions need for their
 successful adminstration-men and
 money Men to assume rssponsihtllt-
 ies. money to make opportunities The hnaneial administration of an institute , ion may be never so sound but T i'