The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-26
TO HAVE EDUCATION DAY.
This Will Be One OF the Big Features
at the National Corn Show.

Columbia, Oct. 24.--Woodrow Will
son, Governor of New Jersey, can
| didate for President on the Democra-
tic ticket, and constructive educator
| and statesman, will be invited to de-
| liver the principal address on Ma
tional Education Day at the Fifth
National Corn Exposition here next
January. Talks by other prominent
educators and special features of in
terest to teachers are being a:rang-
ed for, and Mr.. J. E. Swearingen,
State Superintendent Of Education, is
preparing a letter to the various
county superintendent suggesting
their attendance and urging that the
county schools be closed and teachers
| and pupils be allowed to attend on
| this day
The prominent details Of National
Education Day at the Corn Exposi-
ton were announced yesterday by
DR.. S. c. Mitchell, President Of the
University Of South Carolina, who is
| chairman Of the committee on pro-
gram arrangements for this day. Ac-
cording to announcements by DR..
Mitchell, Governor Wilson is in mind
for the principal address. Another
noted educator who is expected in
| Columbia for this Day is Mr.. ]. D.
Eggleston, Jr. State Superintendent of
| Education Of Virginia. Mr.. Eggleston
has made a close stduy of rural
| school conditions, and is a recognized
| authority on this subject 1t is
known certainly that Miss Mabel Car
ney of Illinois, one of the foremost
women in the educational field, will
| be at the Exposition, and she will also
take part in the Education Day
program. She is in charge of the ru-
raj schol extension work for Normal
University. Normal, Illinois, and is
secretary Of the Illinois Country Life
Federation. National Education Day
has been set for Friday of the first
week, January 81.
Both DR.. Mitchell and Superintend-
ent Swearingen are greatly interested
| not only in Education Day, but in the
day following, which will be Boys
Day, marking the climax Of the Expo
| sition school for boys, to be held dur
hn
thousand boys will attend this school
| and take part in the formalities of
| Boys Day. Dr. Wallace Buttrick,
extension secretary of the General
Education Board, who has done much
| work to promote the Boys Corn clubs
in the South, will be present at the
| exposition on Boys Day.
In my opinion" said DR.. Mitchell
yesterday, in commenting upon the
| exposition and the features Of Edu-
| cation Day, this is one of the most
striking educational events that has
| ever come to the South, and it is TAX
en- for granted that teachers of South
Carolina and adjacent states will GER
| tainly embrace this opportunity TO
| identify themselves with the great
work for the enrichment Of rural life
The presence of a thousand boys in
the corn college makes in itself an
| occasion Of note and Importance not
to speak OF the splendid exhibits and
the might array Of educational talent
that will be on hand.
The school board cannot do a oct
ter thing for its community than to
arrange for the teachers and as many
| of the pupils as possible to be present
during Friday and Saturday January
81 and February l, in Columbia. The
whole exposition is proof Of the prac-
tical character Of education at the
present day and shows what science,
| applied to agriculture means both to
| the increase in productiveness Of the
| farm and to the enrichment OF the
| life Of the country districts Never
| before in the history of Columbia has
80 large a company engaged in SO
structural a task been assembled,
| and the massed strength Of the edu-
| cational forces Of the country should
| be present with a view Of impressing
| the nation with the fruitfulness and
power Of their work"