The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-16
BROAD SCHEME
 FOR EDUCATION
Movement Is Launched At At-
 Ianta to Aid South
CLAYTON FAVORS THE PLAN
Many Stirring Addresses Are Made In the Conference for Education and Reports Show Great Prog
 ress In Schools.

Atlanta, April 15-A movement to build up an educational scheme which shall embrace the entire south was launched today at a prolonged session of the cam paign managers of the conference for education in the south, now in annual session here. It was proposed that all states of the south be induced to take action toward spong educational sys- tenn, which shall be as uniform as pos sipie- The idea to be worked out was mus expressed by President P. P. Clax- ton or the University of Tennessee:
 We should have.' he said. s.an archi- teetural plan, built up from all the styles of education now in vogue in the south. We have been strengthening here and there for years with good results. until now It is time to construct a system more or less permanent for general de- velopment"
 pr. Claxton presided at the campaign managers meeting and 1t was decided to take early action to spread the uniform education idea.
 The Southern Association of College Women met for an afternoon session. presided over by Emma Boyd Garrett Of Atlanta. Elevation of college stand ards and revised courses of study to meet the demands of those seeking a broad ed ucation were the main themes of the college women's meeting.
 Educational Proqress,
 Reports on educational progress in the individual states of the south produced interesting figures. The Alabama report showed that the appropriation for eduea- ton in that state for the past year had increased S3l9,OOO. The compulsory edu- cation law just passed by the Arkansa B legislature was commended. Florida re- ported fl high schools, 75 junior high schools and fl rural graded schools.
 Georgia showed state appropriation for 1909 for schools of $2,250,000, an increase over 1908 of a quarter of A, million. For Kentucky one of the most successful years in state school his- tory was predicted for 1909 and Okla homa called attention to the salaries paid her teachers as being probably the highest in the south.
 Rural life as business and indus trial success therein was the leading feature of the night session, the prin- cipal address being made by Clifford Pinchot. His subject was How tn e National Government May Cooperate With the States In the Betterment of Rural Conditions"
 Morning Session.
 United States Commissioner of Educa- ton Elmer E. Brown and Clarence Ous- ley editor of the Forth Worth. Tex. Record, were also among the speakers of the second day of the conference. The morning session was given over to tn e state superintendents and after calling the body to order President Robert c. Ogden resigned the chair to Superin- tendent J. Y. Joyner of North Caro- lina
 Jere M. Pound, school commissioner of Georgia, sketched the educa tional progress in the southern states for the year calling special attention to the large increase of high sch ools, some betterment in supervision and mark ed attention to systematic support, em- bodied in the idea of local taxation. Not one of the souther groups of states has failed during the year to increase it's appropriation for general school purposes.
 Superintendent c. B. Cook of Arkan- sas presented a summary of accom- PiiohiliCht lOl anu 1nQuS- trial education in the south, citing cases of great benefit to those who needed help. the children of the rural districts. He concluded with an ex- pression of the belief that the south will find many of it's most vexatious problems quietly worked out by the agricultural and industrial movement.
 OusIey's Address.
 - educational progress In the south was made by Clarence OusIy, president of the Fort Worth Record. The address was not merely an appeal, however, but careful and conslderate discussion of the best interests and highest ideals of the people of the south
 In beginning he indicated that the southern states had been compelled by the wreck and waste of war to give one whole generation to the problem of meat and bread.
 q would despise myself" he said, If in this presence or anywhere, out of pas- sion or prejudice or masldin sentiment, should even unwittingly fan to flame again the faintest spark of a sectionalism almost forgotten and wholly forgiven, thank God; but I would be forced to confess in shame and humiliation an edu- cational backwardness and sloth amount Ing aiiioSt .o criihe upoH the part or the south If l did not remind myself and you of that not indifference but neces- sity not a wanton truancy. but the ball and chain of financial and social distress has hndered our progress. That is why we have llmped while other states have leaped in the march of education
 Referring to that progres which the south had made in education, Mir Ously pointed out that his own state of Texas gave the negroes nearly million dollars year for educational purnoses aI-