The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-16
B|G CONFERENCE
 FOR EDUCATION
Prominent Men et the South
 Will Meet At. Memphis
PROGRAMME IS EXTENSIVE
President Robert c. Ogden Will De- liver the Annual Address and Southern Educators Will
 Discuss Live Subjects.

Nemphis. April 15.-The conference for education in the south will open in Mem- phis April 2. ,,,
 Governor Patterson of Tennessee VIII deliver the address of welcome.
 Hon. Joseph NJ. Hill,. chief justice or the supreme court of Arkansas, Will oe- liver a word of greeting from that s.ate' Robert c. ogden will then deliver the an n1al address of the president which VIII be followed by an address on ie eress of Arkansas,' by J. Il. Hihehiou' president of Henderson college, Arkansas' The session Thursday morning VIII pe given to the state superintendents or eou- cation in the south. The state supeiin- tendents of Alabama, Arkansas, florios'' Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi' North Carolina. South Carolina, Tennes- see. Texas and Virginia will atlehu.
 The special programme IS:
 "Public High Schools" by J. D. Eggles- ton. state superintendent of puphe ih- struction of Virginia; Public schooi Funds" by 0. B. Martin, state supei III tendent of education of South Caroiina' "Teacher Training and Salaries, py J. M pound. state school commissioner or Georgia; County Supervision by J. b. Aswell. state superintendent Of eouea'io'i of Louisiana.
 Thursday evening the address will be on .'The Methods of an Education Cam paign,' by P. P. Claxton, professor oi education in the University of Tennessee' .erhe Christian South and Negro Educa- tion." by the Rt. Rev Theodore D. Brat ton. bishop of Mississippi, and "Popular Education and National Eniclency' py the Hon. James Bryce, British ampassa- dor to the United States.
 Friday morning, April "A, there will be addresses on the work of the women Of the south in the better of conditions in rural schools by Mrs. Beverly B. Munford of Richmond, Va; Mrs. Charles D. Nc Iver of Greensboro, N. C., and Mrs. J. D. Matlock of Birmingham, Ala. "The Higher Education of Woman" will be discussed by Miss Lillian D. Johnson of Memphis, Tenn, vice president Of the Southern Association of College Women, and Miss White, president of Smith col lege, North Ampton, Miss.
 Friday afternoon there will be an "open Forum on the subject of Compulsory Attendance" Dr. B. J. Baldwin, pres ident of the board of education of Mont gomery will president. Dr. Wickliffe Rose of Nashville, Tenn, agent of the Peabody education board will be followed :. .by,- Clarence -H.~Poes ,editqr 'of the Fro gressive farmer of Raleigh, N. C.; Ed win Craighead, editor of the Register Mobile, Ala; Prof. w. H. Hand of the University of South Carolina; Hon. H. E Reynolds, chairman of the committee or education in the Alabama senate Col. Ii S. Stone, general counsel of the LoulsVille and Nashville railroad, Louisville, hy.i George F. Milton, editor of the Knoxvile Sentinel. and others
 On Friday evening there will be ad- dresses by Prof. w. H. Heck of the Uni versity of Virginia on 'rhe Souths Neeo of Education Theory and on "lndustrla Education" by Dr. Henry s. Pritchett formerly president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now president oi the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance ment of Teaching. The final address vii be delivered by the Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor. D. D., Memphis. Tenn, on the general subject of Impressions Of the Conference"