The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-02-15
DIR. soHERER's QUANDARY.
Wouldn't Know What toldo. If Some
of Rockefeller Money Were Of
fered Newberry.

| 4. ~ %the fultOf OF Inc news ana
Courier: ] might sign myself, "Anx-
y ious Inquirer,' for that is the way
| feel. Like Goethe, 1 want more light.
A college president IN these days is
beset behind and before. Mr.. John d.
Rockefeller, alias the general educa-
tional board (alias also Standard OiD
strew, the educational pathway with
thifty-two rosy millions, developed ON
the: American beauty plan; the
"friends of the College, prod the
president Oh to get more money
honestly if thee can, john" while
the Baltimore Manufacturers Record
filings down challenge to Southern
college presidents to show cause !;
and the college president is also vexed
with at least the remnants of consci-
rnce. Will my brethren of the presi-
dental chairs please tell me what +
ough TO do?
The problem contains two elements,
and here they are. The first is all
mixed up with that black ghost that
will not down, the ubiquitous and
'sempitelnal race problem. Besieged
by the Manufacturers Record, l turn
to the World Almanac and read as
follows:
Officers of the Southern Education
Board: Robert c. Ogden, chairman; ;
George Foster Peabody, treasurer;
Edgar Gardner Murphy secretary
and executive secretary; with
a campaign committee compris-
ing the late Chas D. McIver as chair
man, Edwin A. Alderman, II. B.
Frisscll, Edgar Gardner Murphy, and
w. B. Hill (deceased.)
Officers Of the General Education
Board: Robert G. Ogden, chairman; {;
George Foster Peabody, treasurer;
Wallace Buttrick and Starr j. Muir
phy, secretaries; with executive off,
GERS comprising Frederick T. Gates,
Daniel c. Gilman, Morris X: Jesup,
Walter H. Page, j. D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Albert Shaw, Hugh II. Hanna, e.
Benjamin Andrews, and VIM. R. Har-
per (deceased.)
According to the same authority the
object Of the Southern educational
board is to awaken and inform public
opinion and secure additional legisla-
ton and revenues for the bettcrment
of the public schools, "the supreme
public need Of our time;' while the
! object of the general education board
is "to promote education in the Unit
ed States, without distinction of race,
sex or creed, and especially to pro-
mote, systematize, and make effec-
tive various forms of educational
beneficence. =
1t would certainly appear on the
face of things thatsthese two bodies
lare virtually, the same body, one
>branch existing for the purpose Of
Southern propaganda, while the other
acts as a distributing agency of cdu-
cational wealth., especially in south
ward direction. The men who COM
prise these two boards are of very
high character and of unimpe chable
purpose; but it may be permissible to
differ from them on subjects of the
gravest Importance. One Of the South
ern leaders of the movement said to
! me not long ago that. many of his
Northern associates on the boards
might and probably do cherish deep
| sympathy with racial equality, but
that the Southern members will be
able to receive the bounty Of their
wealthy friends while averting their
political tendencies. One thing I
want to know is, was he right9
It has been said in certain quarters
that Southern opposition to the work
of the Southern education board and
| it's twin ally arises from the fear that
, the propaganda of the gentlemen
composing these boards will antagon-
! ize child labor in Southern mills. To
; this extent I for one, am clearly with
them. Child labor is blot on the
country, whether in the South or in
New England. On the whole, / am
; inclined to believe that the alleged
evils of the so-called "Ogdcn move
! ment' have been as it were somewhat
magnified But there is another phase
of this question that seems to me very
lperplcxing. "a . r" -, ... -.
Every dollar of the f0rty~three mil