The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-12
CHOOSE OGDEN
PRESIDENT AGA|N.
Dr.. Mitchell is Made Chairman OF
the Executive Committee Of
Conference for Education.
MORE CAPITAL IN COUNTRY
That is What farmers Need,
Says DR.. Knapp-Hobson
Wants Federal Aid.

P1NE1IURsT, N. c., April 11.-Tho
Conference for Education in tho South
to-day elected officers as follows:
President, Robert c.. Ogden, New
York.
Vice President. ]. dundy Jordan,
Georgia.
Secretary b. J. Baldwin, Alabama.
Treasurer, William A.. Blair. North
Carolina.
Executive Committee: s. c. Mitchell,
Virginia chairman; Nv. II. Hand, South
Carolina; s. A. Minders, Tennessee;
George ]. Ramsey, Kentucky; Harry
Hodgeson, Georgia: Erwin Craighard,
Alabama; Paul II. Saunders. Mis-
sissippi; James II. billiard, and John
H. Hlnemon, Arkansas.
Better conditions for Southern
FARMS" was the subject OF an address
by DR. Seamon A. Knapp. of Lake
Charles. La, special agent United
States Department Of Agriculture. Dr..
Knapp spoke OF tho advantages to be-
derived by the farmers in developing
the soil, and In this manner increas-
Ing the output Of their acreage.
Other speakers were T. 0. Sandy,
Farmville. Va; E. McIvcr Williamson
Montclair. S. G., and Dr.. l.. H..
Bailey professor Of agriculture in
Cornell University. Mr.. Knapp said:
Riveted With Gold.
The largo body Of freedmen set
tied throughout the rural districts OF
the South has tended to lower farm
values and depress agriculture. The
effect is not the result OF color, but is
caused by the lower plane OF living.
We have lived under slavery where
the chains are ingeniously forged
and the bands riveted with gold. II
is all the same in effect, the impov-
erishment Of the masses"
DR.. Knapp declared that the nation
al banking law has caused a depres5-
Ing influence by diverting most OF the
money of the country into CONNER
cial channels. He advocated the estab-
lishmment Of agricultural banks
throughout the South to provide money
for farmers to harvest their crops and
to improve their farms.
THE banking capital OF our coun-i
try" he said. has stimulated COM
mercialism, and by Its concentration II,
tho cities has fostcred gambling in
stocks. The great luctuation in thu
values Of farms and farm products lies
In the fact that the money OF the
country has been loaned to the specu-
lative interests
Thrift Home Owners.
agricultural banks he Said, "stould
be established to assist in carrying out
the plan OF colo nizing the country with
thrifty home-owncrs.
millions produced by the farms Of
the nation.' said DR.. Knapp, .'have by
| the process OF banking BEEN transferred
to commerce. and no way has been pro-
| vided under the law by which the money
! OF the people can be used by the people
/ for time investments in providing for
| ownership of r>ral homes''
The conference ordered DR.. Knapp's
speech printed and circulated in every
State In the South.
Representative Richmond P. Hobson,
of Alabama, in an address night. an
| nounced he had arranged with Secretary
OF Agriculture Wilson for experts in soil
cultivation and good roads building to
accompany him on thirty days educa-
tional campaign throughout his congress-
ional district
| He urged national aid for rural educa
| ton In the South. sg