The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-28
CONFERENCE
 IS AT WORK Business Sessions Ars
 Being Held. MANY SPEECHES HEARD Reception Given the Distin- guiShed Visitors. pr. Charles W. Dsbney Enters Plss for the Education of the
 People of the
 Mountains.

@e*sAt9hAsesttt first business session of the seventh an. nual Conference for Education in the South was, held this morning and thert was another large attendance, thougf not quite as many as were in the thea Ire last evening. At 10 o'clock President Robert c. Ogden called the conference tf order. He announced that the executive committee would meet immediately after | the morning session. A compliment wal passed on the program. after report | were received from the field.
 Hon, s. A. Mynders was first introduced He gave an outline of educational con, dttions in his State and had statistics galore to quote from. He spoke of locag taxation. which was one of the promt nent causes for education in that State Hon. 0. B. Martin, State Superintend, ent of Education for South Carolina, wal next introduced. His paper was brist ling in humor. Hon. H. L.. Whitfield State Superintendent of Education fof Missouri. presented strong paper.
 Negroes are Present.
 During this last paper eighteen negroes entered the theatre.
 Hon. I. w. Hiil, State Superintendent o Education of Alabama. was next intro duced. He said there was a lack of wei qualified teachers In the State and thh
 
 sfble to pay better salaries to the in structors.
 Hon. L. B. Aswell State Superintend ent of Education Of Louisiana. made strong appeal in behalf of education. pr. Charles D. McIver. president of tht State Normal College of North Carolina delivered strong paper. He spoke of | strong effort to be waged for local taxa ton for the benefit of the public schools k A number of telegrams were read q the conference, Governor R. c. Blanch ard of Louisiana. being among the absen tees R. H. Jesse. president of the Mis- soufi State University. nisos sent a mes sage regrettsng his absence. A telegram was also read to the conference in ref erence to Vice President Murphy. who it dangerously Ill in New York. Some hopt was expressed of his early recovery.
 Dr. Dabney's Plea. Dr. Charles w. Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee was the next speaker. He took uI white and hack education. H. paid Bishop Galloway a high tributs for his eloquent appeal for education of the negro and took the opposite view that the best way to educate ths negro is by the better education of the white man. He pleaded especially foI the education of the white men of the mountains over nine-tenths of whoss population are white. He said the ne. gro population is always found in tht valleys and cities. Among the white men of the mountains of North Ala. bama less than 1-2 per cent. are for. eign born or of foreign parentage Tennessee has but 1 per cent. while Illinois has 51 per cent. He said the mountains are the great breeding ground of America and pleaded foI their better education. Others whe heard were Hon. J. B. Aswell. State superintendent of EducatIon-elect. oii Louisiana; Dr. H. B. FrisselI. principa, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va; Dr. Edwin A. Alderman. president of Tu. lane University. New Orleans, La.
 This afternoon a reception was gfv- en at the InIiman Hotel. The palm room, the private parlors and other reception halls of this hotel were crowded, many citizens turning out to pay the distinguished visitors a cor. dial reception. The evening program was made up as follows:
 The Evening Program.
 "The Practical and the Literary in National Life" by c. Alphonso Smith. professor of English in the University of North Carolina; Standards of Ad- mission to Southern Colleges" L. B. NA&BtHS' NACc ol AhG Out- versity of the South, Sewanee. Tenn; "The Profit of Good Training" Walter H. Page. editor of The Worlds Work, New York city.
 The executive committe will an- nounce later in the session officers nominated for the next term. The nexf meeting place will be decided on lat- CT in the year. The program of exer- ctses for tomorrow include morning and evening sessions. with excursions to points of interest in the immediate Birmingham district,
 An Alabama educational committee was organized in this city this morn ing, for the purpose of aiding the cause of education in the State, and espec- tally in assisting the State superin- tendent of education in his efforts for the betterment of the schools of Ala bama,
 l. W. Hill was elected president of the organization with Harry Gunnels, of Montgomery, secretary. An execu- tive committee. which is to have di- rect charge of the management of the organization was elected. as followst Prof. I. ". Hill, Major W. w. Screws and Dr. B. J. Baldwin. all of Mont gomery. The organization will meet May 25th in Montgomery, when the following committee will report dei- nite plan of action for the orxaniza- ton: Prof. J. W. Abercrombie of the University of Alabama; Mir Rufus N. Rhodes of Birmingham; MT. R. E. Pet tus of Huntsville; Dr. J. H. Phillips of Birmingham; Col T. G. Bush of Bir- mingham.