The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
EDUCATORS WILL
 DISCUSS PROBLEMS
Association to Meet in
 Houston, Texas
FOUR PHASES OF WORK
Education of Farmers Children and Mountain People, the Training of Southern Girls and the Edu-
 cation of the Negro

Montgomery. August 26-(speeiaD-In a
 stirring address to the educators of the
 south. the essential feature of which is
 the recitation of five great reasons why
 the fall convention in Houston. Texas 1 should be largely and enthusiastically
 attended, Professor NJ A. Cassidy of
 Lexington, Ky. president of the South
 ern Educational association and William F. Feagin of Montgomery, secrstary, to-
 day made public some of the great and
 overshadowing school problems which will come to the attention of the assoeia- tion. The address is of especially vital importance owing to the avowed inten-
 tions of the association to solve its own problems without other sectional in reference
 The startling declaration that millions
 of white children of the south are being
 educated away from service instead of toward it" Is amplified by the authors
 of the address. The address relates the classes of children who are enduring the
 wrong. as follows:
 First the farmers children second,
 the children of the mountainous sections;
 third, the factory children: fourth, the southern girls, with respect to their edu- cation to the high ideals of woman
 hood: fifth, the negro children. "ignor- ant disease breeding, superstitious and
 unproducing.
 The address Is emphatic in calling into play patriotism of the sufficient quan- tity that will assure an overflowing crowd in the Texas city November 30, December l and The call is as fol- lows:
 ITO the Educators of the South-Are you a patriot2 Reflect. before you read further. If you are, now is the time to test your patriotism. The test is not so ostentatious as in war, but. if you are true patriot, it will be a more effec- tive service than can be rendered in any physical strife. The south has Its prob lens and southern men and women alone can solve them. Will they do 1t? Will you do your own part? If you are a patriot then hear what there is for you to do.
 "The proper education of all the chill dren of the south is the south's real problem today. It is of vital importance, and only southern educators know how to handle it effectively. The question will be fully discussed at the meeting of the Southern Educational association dL Ie&dSt NONeHlpeT OV, 1t- cember 1 and . and il is hoped that the discussions will lead to immediate ac- tvity. If you are a patriot, will you rot come to Houston and help solve it?
 Millions of white children in the south are being educated away from service in- stead of toward it. This is especially true of the farmers child If the farm CTS children were educated for their en- vironment, there would be incalculably
 more happiness. prosperity and social | elevation through the rural south and
 the whole nation would reap the benefit. | The education of the farmers child is
 a vital question which will be discussed
 at Houston. It's solution means so much
 to the south, that, if you a patriotic
 educator you will be in Houston and help solve 1t.
 Hundreds of thousands of boys and girls who live In the mountains of the south have no educational advantages. They can and must be trained into gC od, productive citizens. Ways and means of doing so will be ably discussed at 1ous- ton. Are you a patriot? If so, come 10 Houston and do your part.
 Thousands of southern children are wearing their lives away in factories, where they are denied the inalienapie rights of the young-air, sunlight. play and training. Ways and means of help ing these children will be attempted at Houston. If you are patriot will you not come and help do this?
 Are southern girls being educated ac- cording to the high ideals of womanhooj that was once the glory of the south? The Houston programme contains such topics as The Education of Girls The Home and the School Training for Mother hood These will be discussed by some of the south's most eminent educators Will you be there to lend your voice and help?
 There are millions of negroes in the south who are ignorant, superstitious, disease breeding, unproducing, and a. merace to society. The present state of negro education promises to continue this deplorable condition. If it is so continued the whites will suffer even more than the negroes The meagre and often mis- directed education which the negroes are getting is admittedly opposed to ther own interests and to the welfare of the section in which they reside. We may differ con corning the character of training that should be given the negro, but we all realize that the condition is bad that the question Is a serious one and that only harm can result from our ignoring it. The negro must be better educated-in the true meaning of the term. Tt is folly to argue otherwise. He must be trained for his environment, and be taught now to hNS hiordlly ana nyBlenlcaily. Ills educa- ton should be industrial and moral rather than literary and cultural The south could more safely exist half slave and half free than half enlightened and half ignorant. The reason is apparent
 The Education of the Southern Far mer, The Education of the Mountain Children, The Education of the Factory Children The Education of the Southern Girls, Negro Edueation'-the are some Iof the vital questions to be considered. They have too long been neglected or en- trusted to those who cannot understand them as can those who live in the south. The south is not inefficient, nor is she a mendicant. She has the intellect to plan and the resources to accomplish Has she the will? That remains to be seen. If the educators of the south will sr lend the Southern Educational association TOT Houston and will manifest the ntel- l'gehce and enthusiasm of which they are capable, the meeting sill be the beginning or new era for this section
 Aside from these vital topics. lhere will | oe many departments, where questions of