The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-03-29
SPECIAL CARS WILL
BRING THE VISITORS
TO THE CONFERENCE
TWO CARLOADS OF NEW YORK.
ERS LEAVE MONDAY
FOR NASHVILLE.
MARTIN LITTLETON IS COMING
Well Known Attorney and Congress-
man viii Speak at Educational
MISUNDERSTANDING Fisher, of the
Interior Also on Program.


NASHVILLE, Mar. 2S.--Two spec.
ial Pullmans will leave New York on
next Monday morning early for Nash.
vile, and will bring a distinguished
party here to attend the sessions of
the conference for education in the
South, to be held in this city Wed.
nesday, Thursday and Friday of next
week, according to DR.. A. F. gour.
land, of Washington, D. c., for TWEEN
tX years professor at Peabody Col
iege, who arrived Wednesday to make
some preliminary arrangements. DR..
Rourland is assistant to DR.. Wickliffe
Rose, executive secretary of the
southern educational board.
That the conference will be attend.
ed by many notables, including men
and women of prominence in all
walks Of life, was the statement OF
DR.. Bourland. Among those expected
are Martin Littleton, New York's
lawyer and congressman, and ma
live Tennessean; Walter L. Fisher,
secretary of the interior; st. Clair
Mckelway, editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle; Walter E. Page, editor OF
Worlds Work; Jos. E. Hedges, IA.
nous New York after-dinner speaker;
the minister from the Netherlands,
Robert c. Ogden, president of the
conference, and hundreds of others
well known over the nation. Mr.. Og.
Gen will be in charge of the New
York special and will reach Nash.
vile Tuesday
"The conference will be attended
by men in all walks of life who are
interested in the cause of education -
said DR.. Bourland. There will be
bankers, lawyers, ministers, educa.
tors and in fact representatives of
all lines of endeavor. 1t is by no
means confined merely to educators,
cut is comprehensive in it's scope,
and promises much in the way of
quality, though no effort is made to
secure a large attendance from the
numerical standpoint. All the states
from Maryland to Teads, including
Oklahoma will be represented. The
presidents of all state universities in
the south, all state superintendent
of public instruction, all state high
school inspectors, all state supprvis-
ors of rural schools, the professors of
education at all state universities,
will be present The national bureau
of education will have a full represen-
tation. Prof. P. P. Claxton, commits
sioner of education; K. c. Babcock,
Harden Undegraff and A. c. Mona
gnan being on the program. Prof.
Claxton will probably reach Nashville
today.
The work of the conference is di-
vided into three classes, the general
sessions, the open sessions and the
special conferences of workers. The
general sessions and the conferences
will be of an executive nature, ana
the public will not participate, but
tie open sessions will be for the
public, and no doubt will be largely
attended"
The rural school department and
the demonstration farm work, afiliat-
ed branches, will be housed on the
third floor of the Y. M. C. A. building,
these departments being the ones in
which DR.. Bourland is especially in
terested. DR.. Rourland will be in
Nashville until the conference closes.
Railroad tickets for the conference
of education in the south, which will
be held in this city April 8, and 5,
will be on sale at all points in Ten
nessee, April and at the rate of 8
cents per mile plus rs cents, and will
be good on all trains arriving in
Nashville before noon April 4.
From points outside of Tennessee.
south of the Ohio and Potomac riv-
ers and east of the Mississippi river,
tickets will be sold on the certificate
plan. The limits on the certificates
for returning to the original starting
point has been extended till April 20,
in order that delegate sto the educa.
tional conference may stay over for
tie Southern Commercial Congress.
Rates for the Southern Commercial
Congress, which will convene in
Nashville April $40, have been an
nounced at cents a mile, plus 25
cents from all points In Alabama.
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, North Carolina.
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia.