The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-17
CONFERENCE
 ADJOURNS Educators Had Great |x Meeting. .LEASANT AND INSTRUCTIVE Dr. Van Elise Discusses State
 University and lis Service. He Claim. That There Must Be rr.cti-
 cal study in All Those Thins. The People 

Atlanta, Ga, April 16.--With mixed feelings of satisfaction and regret. the twelfth annual conference for educA- ton in the soutk closed tonight. The satisfaction was at the immense amount accomplished during the scho1- astic year just terminated The regret was thatsthe meeting so. pleasant and instructive was so brief. Every mem- Der of the conference united In a declaration that never had the members experienced as satisfactory meeting. The early sessions of the closing day were devoted largely to women and worhen's work in the problem that the conference is endeavoring to in- terest all good citizens in solving. Women who have devoted their lives | to teaching or sto the study of those econofStc problems which every com munity has to solve some time or other. save to the conference members the benefit of their conclusions. The ne- gro problem was considered, too. from the standpoint of f~the educator and some attention was paid to economic developments in connection with edu- cation.
 At the evening session. "the State University in the Service of the State" was discussed by Charles R. Van Hise. President of the University of Wis- consin.
 The entire day tomorrow will be de- voted to1a visit to the Berry School at Rome. Ga. That education is of little value un- less 1t can be utilized by the people to solve the material as well as the spiritual problems of life, was the com ciusion of pr. Van Hise. the final speaker of the conference. He held that If the state university did not | f1 hn NA hA States citizens. it was not meeting the requirements of the State. pr. Van Hise divided his. subject into four parts. namely: Instruction of students, re- search into and for those things pecu- lfarly needed by the State service to 1 the people by experts, the carrying of Knowledge to- the people. He l claimed that there must be practical study in all those things the people need. For instance. Georgia should study cotton. utilization of water pow CT and the production of collateral ir- dustries. This. he said. was the func- Istton of the state. He declared, further, that the State should educate for aii its people. A doctor Is not taught simply that he may be . practitioner. but that he may teach hygiene and sanitation; that disease may be prevented as we'll as
 
 science is provision of this service to the people. Marconi's discovery saves the shipwrecked at sea, but be- hind Marconi Is the discovery of the sound waves. He declared that stu dents of economy--political economy and sociology---lead in the industrial progress of the country and are in- fiuences in the general economies of the people. In word. he declared the zl.rA A. 4t.. <@Nm .{x of education, from which Is drawn knowledge wherever 1t is needed and practical service wherever it will do the most good.
 pr. E. A. Alderman. President of the University of Virginia. who was to have spoken on "Educationai Organ ization." did not arrive in time to make his address. 7
 Before the conference adjourned. the following resolutions were offered and adopted:
 Resolved, That the Conference for Education in the South recommends for special attention in the work of the immediate future:
 First-Improvement in country su- pervtsion as the strategic point in the entire educational system.
 Second-The professional training of teach CTS to meet the just demand for more efficient service and especially the strengthening of the department of education in the higher institutions for the training of men as teachers and principals of high schools and as superintendents.
 Third-The extension of local school improvement leagues to every commu- nity in the South. and the earnest eff fort to place the work upon a self-sus- taining basis.
 South-Continued efforts In behalf of compulsory education in such man. ner as may be deemed wise in each state.
 Fifth--we recognize with delight the increase fin dignity and power of State supeFintendents of Education, which Is attracting the strongest men among us, and the growing recognition of these leaders as the real shepherds of the people.
 SIxth-The National Bureau of Edu- cation at Washington has made such use of It's limited resources as has rendered 1t valuable re-enforcement of every good educational movement throughout the land. We are glad to note that Congress has begun to make distinct in appropriation, as what has hitherto been made Is totally inade-' quate to the needs of the office and protection fully disproportionate to the lHpOTtdnCC VI NHS AhSCACStb WnlCn II serves. We respectfully urge upon Congress that 1t undertake without further delay the placing of this bu- reau upon a plane of efficiency such as will enable it to render in full the service which the States represented in this conference require and expect from such a Federal office."
 Officers Elected.
 Atlanta, Ga. April 16-Robert c. ogden of New York was elected for the tenth time president of the con ference for education in the south.
 The officers chosen were: Vice President, B. J. Baldwin of Montgom- edy, Ala. Secretary Wycklyffe Rose Treasurer, William A. Blair. Winston Salem. N. C., Executive Committee, Wycklire Rose. Nashville. S. c. Nit chell. Columbus. g. c. W. H. Hand. Columbia, s. C.. s. A. Mynders Knox, vile, Tenn. c. J. Ramsey. Frankfort, Ky, Harry Hodgson. Athens. Ga. James IT. Kirkland. Nashville. Paul H. Saunders, laurel. Miss. James H, Dil- lard, New Orleans: James H. Hinman, Ark.,: J. Y. Joyner. Ral- eigh, N. c. J. B. Asweli. Natchitochss. V ~Aaa~ H,srRhv MonfNrnun