The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
FINAL SESSION
 OF CONFERENCE
 FOR EDUCATION Important Educational Move mentS Are Favored In the
 Final Resolutions
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS
 NEED MORE ATTENTION
Bishop Thomas F. GaiIor Comments the Work of the Conference.-The bama Educators Make ln-
 pressive Addresses.

Memphis. April 24-The final session of the 1908 conference for education in the south was held tonight.
 The set speeches of the evening were
 ne Souths Need of Educational Theo- ry," by ". H. Heck of the University of Virginia and industrial Education,' by Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Car negie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching of New York Bishop Thomas F Gailor of Tennessee spoke of impressions of the conference. The bishop commended the work of the con- ference and its influence for better things.
 The report of the committee on reso,u- tions, adopted at the night session, sx- pressed appreciation to President ogden, l recognition of the conference as a great 1 force for education in every way, and ] for bringing the south and north to know each other better
 The main features of the resolutions 1 adopted are:
 Improvement in county supervision as ] the stragetic point in the entire educa- f tional system.
 l tenance and equipment of public hign schools and an efficient means of linking the elementary public schools with the colleges and universities and of improv- ing the scholarship of the rank and file of public school teachers.
 industrial and school education in the elementary and secondary public schools. l The education and professional train ing of teachers to meet the demand for efficient tax and for more money by in- 1 creased taxation.
 Increased attendance by urging the importance of education and also by con- servative legal requirement. in such com munties are prepared for this"
 The conference, amid prolonged cheer ing, today reelected Robert c. Ogden of New York to the presidency, he having yielded to the solicitations of the leaders i to take the place at least for another year. | President D. A. Alderman of the Univer- sity of Virginia presented the report of the nominating committee, through which
 in addition of the president the confer ence choose the following officers: Vice president, B. J. Baldwin, Montgomery j treasurer, W. A. Blair, Winston-Salem Rose, NasnN-s.n c c Nfit1 pichmonda a George J. Rams Il " " Horr,,
 iodgson, Athens, Ga, f,ll H. ssanders PLaurel, Miss; Erwin Craighead, aNtohua. NJames II. Dillard New Orleans; Joi,n IT Hinemon, Philadelphia. Ark; Johi, M Glenn, Baltimore; j. H. Joyner, Raleiss, N. C.. J. B. Aswell, Baton Rouge, La. ; Edgar Gardner Murphy, Montgomery H. B. Frisselle, Hampton, Va.; J. H. Kirk land, Nashville.
 The governor, business men and 1500 Arkansas club women urged the next ses- sion 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 from better educational uplift Pensacola, Fla, also invited the confer- | ence.
 Mrs. Charles D. Me1vor of Greensboro, l N. C., and Mrs. J. D. Mattlock of Bir- mingham presented the work of women in school improvement campaigns. Miss Lil- lian D. Johnson of Memphis talked of 1 higher education of women in the south- ern states. and Miss Georgia l.. White of 1 Smith college, Northampton, Mass, the general subject of higher education of | women
 The afternoon meeting was given over 1 to an open forum on compulsory educa- ton, led by Dr. Wycliffe Rose agent of 1 the Peabody fund. Dr. B. J. Baldwin, l the newly elected vice president, pre- sided.