The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-08
FOR THE AID
Of SOUTH
DISTINGUISHED GATHER
ING IN WASHINGTON
TAKES UP IT'S PROB
LENS FOR DISCUSSION.

WASHINGTON. Dec. What
may prove an epoch In the CONNER
cial development of the south was
opened today in the southern COM
mercial congress. Assembled In the
congress are the leaders in the ma
tion big affairs, whose mission IL
is TO discuss the resources. indus
tries and possibilities of the south
This congress is one of the several
bodies, all national in scope, which
will assemble here this week for
more thorough study of the prob
lem of conservation Today's prog
ress furnished a series of notable ad
dresses. bearing on the resources of
the southern states. Important ex-
hibits were furnished by the geolog
ical survey, the department of agri-
culture. forestry service. etc.
Opening address was by DIR. AL
derman gave the south credit for
having made great strides In the edu-
cational advantage which IL offers.
He summarized what i4e said were
the grave difficulties which essential
ly had been overcome. and declared
that Judged by the standards, no part
of the republic in the past genera
tion has achieved truer educational
progress than the states of the south
'and that nowhere does there seem
a fairer chance to work out a salts
factory educational system" He
said he knew of no social movement
in modern times, founded in higher
purpose, carried forward with greater
self reliance. steadier zeal and larger
results to its credit than the educa-
tional battle of the south since
1870. Il like somehow 20 think.
he said, that this movement began
when General Leesdeeided not to be-
come president of an insurance com
pany at large salary, and became in
stead president of Washington cor
lege at a salary of 81 500 year
In the civic battle of 80 odd years.
he said some fundamental things in
theory and practice has been settled,
while others remained unsettled As
TO the things that had been fairly
settled he stated that tie southern peo-
pie had the political patience and
the mental equipoise not TO disturb
the only good thing bequeathed to
them by popular education. placed in
their organic law. An overwhelming
public sentiment. he declared. had
sustained the policy of education of
all the people at public expense,
thus making of a social system semi
feudal in nature, democracy in So
cial usage as well as in political phil
osophy."
DR.. Alderman asserted that the
south had developed genius OF school
organization necessary TO create
southern state, fairly complete as to
its machinery and methods. quicken
ed and strengthened by normal and
industrial schools for both races and
vitalized by the establishment in the
past five years of 6o0 public hig.
schools. The high school established
and supported by the state, which he
said had hitherto been insufficiently
represented in the school system.
would accomplish three great re-
suits; first, a boy or girl of real abil-
ity heretofore doomed to remain un-
developed in the mass, may pass into
these schools and from them to larger
service in the community or to the
colleges. universities and professional
schools. Second, If education should
end in these high schools for such
ambitious youth the average of edu
Gated force in community is errOn
eously increased: and third. the lower
schools are thus stimulated, the col
lege noruished, the whole system uni
fed, and the maximum of individual
ability inherent in the children of a
commonwealth discovered and edu-
Gated for the state service He said
that 120 institutions of higher learn
ing had been revived or established
instrueting nearly 10000 students
Their establishment and rebuilding,
he declared, had been invaluable ex-
periences in interpretations of social
needs and in self-reliance and self
sacrifice. Today" he said. the
spirit of research and scientific inves-
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