The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-25
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1907.
Dread remorse when you are tempted
to err: remorse is the poison OF life
Bronte.
The Rockefeller Movement.

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The Ogden movement for education
has been much discussed by Southern
newspapers; by some approved and en-
couraged, by others denounced. The
Times-Dispatch has watched the move
,nent with keen interest, and Is con-
WINGED that it has done much good
Tho conferences for education that
have been held year after year in the
women together In a good cause, and
no one who has watched without pre-
JUDGE can have failed to see that since
these conferences began there has been
a great awakening in all the States OF
the South and a wondrous educational
revival. It viii not do to say that this
was mere coincidence, for in many. If
not in most, instances the Southern men
and women who have led in the cru
SADIE have taken a conspicuous part in
the conferences for education.
The Times Dispatch retired when it
learned that some of the Northern
leaders were in the habit Of entertain
ing negroes in their homes, but 1t still
believes that the movement did much
good, and we have not yet seen evil
dence of any harm that it did in the
South.
The movement has now taken new
Education Board, and Mr.. John ID.
Rockefeller has placed large sum OF
money at the boards disposal to be
used in promoting the interests Of
small colleges in all parts of the coun-
try. The Outlook, which is edited by
DR.. Lyman Abbott, conspicuous
figure in the Ogden movement. has this
to say of the Rockefeller educational
fund:
with this financial power in control
the General Educau.on Board is in po-
sition to do what no other body in this
country can, at present, even attempt.
1t can determine largely what institu-
lions shall grow. and, in some measure,
what shall stand still or decay. 1t
4 can look over the territory of the ma
ton, note the places where there is
famine of learning, and start new edu-
1 cational plants of any species 1t chooses
and revive old ones. 1t can do In many
ways " ut the government does for
education in France or Germany. It's
power will BIO enormous: 1T seems as
ii it might be able really to determine
the character of American education.
The funds it bllels represent only q
fraction Of the ameulits which 1t Will
really control; by giving a sum to an
institution on condition that the insti-
tuition raise an equal or greater
amount. It will be able to direct much
larger amounts than it possesses"
We confess that we do not like the
tone of this article. The Tlmcs-Dis-
patch has always opposed government
aid to public schools for one reason
among others, that If the government
should give money to the Southern,
schools it would naturally insist upon
having voice In the management OF
the schools. For the same reason we
should be opposed to any Rockefeller
donations to Southern schools II they
carried with them condition that the
General Education Board, or Mr.
Rockefeller. or any Northern man OF
syndicate should determine the char
acter OF American education
The Outlook has put the Southern
schools on notice, and they will govern
themselves accordingly. Any Southern
school which would compromise its
principles or It's independence for
money would be a menace rather than
a benefit to society.