The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-25
OGDEN HEADS
 CONFERENCE Accepts Presidency for
 Another Year. OTHER OFFICERS ELEcTED
Dr. Baldwin of Montgomery Elected
 Vice President.
The Afternoos Session Was, Given over To open Forum on. comssi.ory Easeation = Many Cities
 Want convenflos.

Memphis, Tenn, April 2l.---The final session of the 1908 conference for ed- ucation In the South was held tonight.
 The set speeches of the evening were The South's Need of Educational The- sity of Virginia, and "Industrial Edu. cation" by Henry s. Pritchett. Prss- ident of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching. New York. Bishop Thomas Gailcr. of Ten nessee who spoke of impressions of the conference. The Bishop commend ed the work of the conference and its influence for better things.
 The report of the Committee on Res- olutions, adopted at the night session, expressed appreciation to President Og- den. recognition of the conference as great force for education in every way and for bringing the South and North to know each other better.
 The main feature of the resolutions adopted are: ,gs,s
 Improvement in county supervision as the strategic point In the entire ed- ucational system. 8 | E 'sThe establishment and adequate maintenance and equipment of public high schools and efieient means of linking the elementary public schools with the colleges and universities and of improving the scholarship of the rank and file of public school teachers. :.
 ''Tndustrial and agricultural aduca- tion in the elementary and secondary public schools #
 Tho education and professional mand for efdcient service aud for more money by incrsased taxation.
 interested attendance by urging the importance of education and also by eonsArvatiYe legal requirement. in such communities as are prepared for this.
 The Conferenee for Education iti n . south a5nld preelonKse enssrl9g; so6ay Hr sto the presidshiy. he having yieIded Co the solicitations of the feeders to take the place at least for smother year
 University of Virginia, presented the report of the Nomination Committee. through which. in addition to the pres ident, the Conference chose the fol- lowing oficers; z sN1
 Vice President, B J. Baldwin, Mont gomery; Treasurer. William A.. Blair. winston Salem; Executive committes. Wyciiffe Rose. Nashville. Tenn: s. C. Mitchell, Richmond; W. III. Hand, UnI- versity of South Carolina; S. A. Myn- ders, Knoxville; George J. Ramsey, Danville Ky; Harry Hodgson, Athens. Ga; Paul H. Sanders. Laurel, MiaG-: Erwin Craighead, Mobile; James K. billiard, New Orleans; John H Hine- mon, Philadelphia. Ark: John M Glenn. Baltimore. Md; J. Y. Joyner. Raleigh. N C.: J. B. Aswell, Baton, Rouge La. :; Edgar Gardner Murphy. Montgomery. Ala. IT. B. Frissele, Hampton. Va; J. H. Kirkland, Nashville. Tenn.
 The governor. business and leVp Arkansas club women urged the next session of the conference at Little Rock. Governor Noel of Mississippi, invited the conference to Oxford, Miss, saying that the state needed the influence of this movement better edu- sational uplift. Pensacola, Fla, also Invited the conference
 Mrs Chas. D. McIver. of Greensboro, N C.. and Mrs. J. D. Matlock. of Birm- ingham. presented the work of women in school improvement campaigns. Miss Lillian D. Johnson. of Memphis talked of higher education of women in the Southern States. and Miss Geor- gia l.. White, of smith College North ampton. Mass the general subject of higher education of women.
 The afternoon meeting was given over to an open forum on compulsory education, lead by pr. Wycliffe Rose, agent of the Peabody Fund Mfr. B. J. Baldwin, the newly elected vice presi- dent presided. W. H. Heck. of the University of Virginia. Henry S. Prit- chard, president of the Carnegie Foun- dalton for Advancement of Teaching, New York and Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee. were the speakers at the closing ses- sion this evening.