The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-09-27
PURPOSES OF THE "OGDEN MOVEMENT"
OFFICIALLY STATED.

the Charlotte Observer has often surprised us by
it's unfair and unreasonable attacks on what it
chooses to call the ogden movement" in South
ern education-meaning thereby the work carried
on by the Southern and General Education Boards
composed of such Southern men as DR.. Edwin A.
Alderman, DIR. Charles D. McIver, Rev. Edgar
Gardner Murphy and DIR. Charles w. Dabney, and
such Northern men as DIR. Albert Shaw, DIR. Wal
ter H.. Page, and Mr.. George Foster Peabody.
We have been amazed that the Observer should
overlook the utterances of these men and find it's
Interpretation of the movement in the deliver
ance of some old fogy like DIR. Edward Everett
Hale, who merely attended one meetin" of the
Southern Educational Conference as an onlooker
and has no more to do with the direction of the
so-called Ogden movement than the editor of the
Observer himself.
We do believe, however, that Editor Caldwell is
a thoroughly sincere man, and we must believe
he is sincere in saying, as he did last Wednesday:
eff Mr.. Ogden's efforts are mainly toward up
lifting the negro, let him go ahead, as he has a
right to do. In the meantime, however, the Ogden
movement should take the Southern people into
it's confidence and be candid about what it is up
to. 1t will find that the better way"
This indicates that the Observer is seeking light
that it would really like to have an authorita-
tive declaration as to the purposes of the ogden
movement" And fortunately such a declaration
is not far to seek. Clear, explicit, unmarried by
one uncertain vote, is the following official plat
for as outlined by DR.. Edgar Gardner Murphy Ca
native of Alabama), the executive secretary of
the Southern Education Board-and we hope that
the Observer, with it's accustomed fairness, will
reprint this declaration for the benefit of it's read
erse
line movement represented by the General Ed
~ucation Board and the Southern Education Board
has proceeded upon certain definite assumptions.
I speak of them again, after our year of work,
witness that we have kept faith with them.
"G) This movement has assumed that when
philanthropy comes into the South with an ex-
elusive interest in the negro, it is likely to fail
in it's service both to the South and to the negro.
The South, under the irritations of such a policy,
is tempted to leave the negro wholly to the care
not because I would imply that they have been
forgotten, but because I think you will bear me
of voluntary forces. IF the South is not to draw
the race line against one element of the popula-
ton, the North should not draw that line against
another. Racial favoritism makes for inter-racial
hatred. The educational, policy of a genuine
patriotism will include all the children of the
unprivileged, white as well as black.
"(2). We may next remember our assumption
that, if broad educational policies are to be at
tempted in the South, they should be largely
worked out by Southern men. Southern men are
face to face with the conditions; and just as
there should be the sympathetic recognition of
the leadership of Northern men in Northern af-
fairs, so there should be the sympathetic recogni-
ton of Southern men in the affairs of the South.
This is simply a principle of craftsmanship; it is
self-evident.
"(3) We have also worked in the conviction