The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-17
FOR EDUCATION
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN
 BIRMINGHAM.
The Ogden Party VIII Many Visitors from Every Section Expected and an Interest ing Program Provided.

arations here are rapidly nearing com pletion for the seventh annual session of the Conference for Education in the South. This body met last year at Rich- mond, Va. It meets in Birmingham this year, on the evening of Tuesday, April 18th, and continues in session through the evening of Thursday. the 18th. All the meetings will be held in the Jefferson Theatre. A rate of one fare (plus 25c) for the round trip has been granted throughout tine section covered by the Southeastern Passenger Association.
 Those who expect to attend should im- mediately address Dr. J. H. Phillips. Superintendent of Schools. Birmingham. Alabama. Private hospitality will be provided so far as possible.
 Among the hotels at Birmingham are the following: Hotel Hillman; Hotel f Morris; Metropolitan. Hotel; St. Nicholas Hotel: Florence Hotel and the Colonial Hotel, At the opening session on the evening of Tuesday, the 18th, the Conference will be called to order at O clock. The address of welcome will be delivered by the Hon. T. G. Bush, of Birmingham, on behalf of the Mayor, the Board of Education, and the reception committees. The re- | sponse will be made by MT. Robert c. | Ogden. of New York, who will then de- | liver his annual address as president of l the Conference. The evening will close l with an address by the Rt. Rev. c. B. | Galloway, Bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in Mississippi. Bishop Gall loway's subject will be "The South and | the Negro" This address was originally l assigned to the evening of the 27th. but as the distinguished speaker feared he l could not attend on that evening, the | change was made to the opening night. The Conference will again assemble in Jefferson Theatre on the morning of | Wednesday, the 27th, and at 10 .o'c clock | will take up the general subject of Re | ports from the Field" This will be one of the most interesting sessions. Author I itative speakers from many sections of l the South will tell, in short, .clear-cut ad- | dresses, of the educational conditions I with which they have been dealing. Among these speakers are the Hon. s. | A. Mynders. State Superintendent of l Education of Tennessee; Lawton B. | Evans, Superintendent of Schools, Au- | gusta, Ga; the Hon. o. B. Martin State
 Superintendent of Education of South Carolina: the Hon. I. w. Hill. State su- perintendent of Education of Alabama i;
 the Hon. J. A. Aswell. State Superinten-
 dent-elect for Louisiana; pr. Charles D.
 McIver. President of the State Normal
 College, North Carolina: Dr. H. B. Fris- I A
 Hampton. Va; Dr. Charles w.. Dab
 ney. President of the University of Ten
 nessee; Dr. S. c. Mitchell, of Richmond
 College. Richmond. Virginia: and pr. Ed
 win A. Alderman, President of Tulane
 University, New Orleans, La.
 On the afternoon of Wednesday, the
 members of the Conference will be ac-
 corded a reception by the ladies of Birm-
 ingham.
 | UyoSuo.Ao,, o,,o..t.- 4 O ,.,,
 the Conference will be called to order
 again in Jefferson Theatre. There will
 be an address on ''The Practical and
 the Literary in National Life" by c.
 Alphonso Smith, Professor of English in
 the University of North Carolina; an ad-
 dress on The Profit of Good Training by Walter H. Page. Editor of The
 Worlds Work. New York City. Mir
 Pages subject is thes economic, practical
 value of education to the individual and
 to society. The evening will close with
 an address entitled "Americanism." by
 Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton
 University. Princeton. New Jersey.
 On the morning of Thursday, the 18th,
 the Conference will meet again in the
 Jefferson Theatre at 10 o'clock sharp, for
 the discussions of the closing day. The
 leading topic of this morning session will
 be that of Local Taxation for Public | Education. The discussion will be | opened by Mir. H. O. Murfee of Marion,
 Alabama. Mir. Murfee will be followed
 by the Hon. H. L. Whitfield, State Su-
 perintendent of Education for Mississippi.
 Addresses on the same general subject
 will then be made by the Hon. w B,
 Hill, Chancellor of the University of
 Georgia; and by the Hon. Sydney J.
 Bowie, member of Congress from the
 Fifth Alabama District
 On the afternoon of Thursday there will
 be brief business session and probably
 local excursion to some of the iron
 furnaces and other large industrial in- terests of the vicinity.
 The Conference closes with the meet ing on Thursday evening This session | opens with an address by pr. John Gra- ham Brooks, of Cambridge, Mass, on ''The North and the South in the Con- | ference for Education An address will | follow from the Hon. A. Montague, 1 Governor of Virginia, and perhaps from
 the Hon. N. c. Blanchard, Governor | elect of Louisiana. The closing address
 will then be delivered by the Rt. Rev. 1 Davis Sessums. IL. D., Bishop of Lou | isiana. Bishop Sessums's subject will
 be Some Impressions of the Conference" l The President of the Conference. MT. | Robert c. Ogden, of New York, will bring to the meeting special train with a large
 and distinguished party of personal l guests from the South and the North