Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-02
WORK OF SCHOOLS AND PRESS
These Topics Are Discussed by South
Dakota Conservationists.
MODERN METHODS ARE NEEDED
Prof. BIgelOw says Present Educa-
tIonaI Methods Are wastefuI--
Newspapers Always BOOST
ing for the state.

PIERRE, s. D., July 1-(Speclal Tele-
gram.)-On account of the inability Of Ex-
Governor Lee to be present, Judge Carroll
OF Miller presided at today's session Of the
South Dakota Conservation and Develop
ment congress. He presented G. w. Camp
bell. president of the State Fair associa-
ton. who discussed local and state fairs as
great factors in educational work among
the farmers.
Prof. A. II. Biglow in discussing waste
in public schools, asks for the application
of modern business methods to school work.
only per cent OF the pupils in the COM
mon schools" he said complete the school
course. What business corporation would
for a moment continue the use of machln-
cry or methods which turn out Sc per cent
of waste7 1t would be replaced by better
equipment or methods at any cost
THE changes IN methods and manage
ment," he continued. would allow the
carrying out of proper education without
| any increase whatever.
Editor Bnncroft's Address.
The principal address Of the afternoon
l session was by w. T. Bancroft, president
Of the State Editorial association, who
| spoke on the Influence OF the Press In the
| Development OF the State" He said
II certainly deem 1t a high honor to be
| called upon to take part in the program of
the first conservation and development
congress Of South Dakota, also an honor to
| the newspaper publishers of the state,
whom 1 represent in the capacity of presi-
! dent of the press association, to be recog-
niZed as one of the important factors in
the upbulding and progress of this grand
young state of ours. AS a resident of the
/ state for the last thirty-eight years and
| an active newspaper man for over half of
that period, am somewhat aware OF what
The Influence Of the Press in the Develop
ment of the State the subject of my ad-
| Dress has been.
mo one will take issue with me when
say that the press has been one of the
greatest possible factors in the development
and progress of our state and its moral
welfare as well. The strong faith in the
future Of South Dakota manifested by
every newspaper man in it has been one of
the great characteristics of the average
editor. Through all the times of adversely
in his own business; through all the dis
couraging years of drouth, hot winds and
money panics. these men Of the press have
had prophetic vision of its coming great
ness in which they saw the dawning of a
day of rapid settlement sucn as we have
of that days sun high into the heavens
from whence it poured a flood of resplen-
dent glory upon a lovely landscape dotted
with the habitations Of men-that they had
a consciousness that the untenanted wilder
ness into which they had penetrated was
shortly to pass from under the dominion OF
silence-that the stiffness OF its vast soil
tudes was about to be disturbed by the
voices of n host of intelligent and news
paper supporting people.
How the Editors Came.
THE occupation of much OF the early
South Dakota was in this order: First,
the Indians; next, the newspaper men; then
the land agents; ard after them, white
I people. Thus our early newspaper men.
preceded by the Sioux and followed by the
land lawyers, came in between two bar
barous tribes.
I'VE are certainly cognizant Of many
benefits which the state has derived from
the press which went ahead OF the over
turning Of our flower-covered- sod, and
when the great state which has been
shaped out of the magnificent fertile lands
shall have grown old, the work OF the
early press will be further appreciated for a
reason which receives little recognition
now. The press has ever been a faithful
laborer in the great work Of educating the
people Of the eastern states az to the ad-
vantages South Dakota offered to them.
1t kas always been exerting its powers Of
persuasion to induce farmers to come here;
boom editions have been sprinkled as thick
as snowflakes all over the east and south,
and throughout the Dominion OF Canada,
picturing to the farmer the opportunities
for comfort and competence here. The
: lonely settler. anxious that his friends
should come to South Dakota, also took
/ from one to a dozen copies Of his home
1 paper and mailed them east and south