The log cabin Democrat., 1910-04-07
GREAT CONFERENCE
 FOR EDUCATION PRES. OCDEN'S ADDRESS
DELEGATES ARE WELCOMED TO CAPITAL CITY BY GOV
 ERNOR DONAGHEY.

Little Rock, April With almost every educator of prominence in the south in attendance, the Conference for Education in the South convened in it's thirteenth annual session in the auditorium of the Hotel Marion yes terday afternoon The afternoon ses- sion was short, being devoted entirely to the appointment of committees and to perfecting the organization. Robert c. Ogden of New York, who ahs been the president of the organization for ten years, presided. The first real ses- sion was last night, when at 8 o'clock the 2,000 delegates gathered in the Capital theater and listened to the address of President Ogden, the vel come address of Governor Donaghey and an address by L. D. Harvey of Menominee, Wis. The exercises open ed with devotional services led by Henry s. Hartzog, president of Qua cl ita college.
 Then came the annual address of President Ogden, which was a beauti- fully worded account of the years work President Ogden deplored the ignorance of the people in shirking school taxes, stating that the outlook fer social and political affairs in this country became bright only when brighter became the prospects for higher education.
 President Ogden spoke of the Gen. eral Education Board, which had as it's beginning a $1,000,000 fund giv- cn by John D. Rockefeller and which has been expended entirely in educa. tion in the southern state. He said this board had three maia lines of wcrl: Fiji st, the prom 'tior of prac- tical farming n. the southern states. Scaond, the development of a system of public lhgh schools in the southern states. Third the promotion of q higher education throughout the Unit ed States The first three years was spent by the members Of the hoard in studying the country with which 1t mad to deal, coming to the conclusion that IS S5 per cent the people of the south live in the country and by farming, the greatest good and the first results could best be obtained by working in that direction. Doctor Seaman A. Knapp, a government eX- pert who had been successful in con-
 
 was called into work, permission being given by the department of agricul- ture that he work in the other south ern states as we'll as Texas and Louis jana if the General Board would pro- vide the funds for the work. This was agreed to and since 1906 there has been expended $2S5,700 in this work with $102,000 appropriated for the current year. There are now 135 su- pervisors of demonstration farms in the south, with 13,5S9 farmers pur- suing improved agricultural methods under such direction, with 187 ,680 farmers pursuing similar work as in- fluenced by those farmers. The Boys Corn Clubs are given welcome hand by President Ogden. He names the II southern states which have state uni versailles being assisted by the Gener- eral Board, and of other funds being paid to employ special high school or secondary education representatives. President Ogden stated the work of the board had resulted in the building of at least l 1000 new high schools and the raising of $5,000,000 for their erection and equipment. The board, according to President Ogden, has giv- en S4,692, 800 toward education in the United States, which resulted in $1S- 000,000 being raised altogether. Of the amount given by the board, $1,- 412,500 has been distributed in the south.
 President Ogden stated that al ready reports prepared show there will be expended in the southern St ateS this wear two and a half times as much for public education as in 1900. The value of school property is three times as much. Appropria-