The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-04
SOUTHERN EDUCATORS
WELCOMED BY HOOPER
GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE DE.
LINERS ADDRESS AT OPEN
ING OF CONFERENCE.
Object of Conference Is to Prevent
Waste of Brain and Muscle of
Southern Youth-Other
Addresses.
Associated Press Special,

Associated Press Special.
: Nashville, Tenn. April 4.--Goy
: ernor B. w. Hooper, who delivereS
;, the address of welcome in behalf Of
!. Tennessee, to the Conference fol
= Education in the South at the open.
: ing session here last night, gave
: cordial greeting to the conference
and commended it to the hospitality
Of the Volunteer State and the city
. of Nashville. 81 understand, he
said, after Introductory remarks,
''that the object of this conference
lis to prevent waste. not primarily
the waste of water. land. timber and
coal, but the waste of brain and
muscle, time and life of Southern
boys and girls. Those are the most
precious assets among all the re-
source of the richest and best
country on earth. Nor Is it disloyal
or unpatriotic for me to say that
this, of all our resources, has been
most neglected.
/ 1.-THE unusual power of the
streams that leap from our noun
tains and hills to the sea is not
hopclessly lost, for the sun and
wind will bring the water back to
where 1t may turn the wheels of in
dustry Not so with the wasted en-
ergies of men. The boy who is
compelled to pass through life with
undeveloped brain, unframed hand |
and uncultured soul is but the |
t,.tL trf1c or n [
have been His personal deprivation
is deploraBle and the loss to society
is great
In conclusion Governor Hooper
spoke in the highest terms of tht
aims of tho conference and babe it
Godspeed in its work.
Robert c. Ogden of New York,
president of the Conference Of Edu-
cation in the South, in opening his |
annual address before the : confer
ence, extended heartfelt greetings
to Vanderbilt University and the
Peabody College for Teachers, and
| reviewing briefly the work accom-
lplished by the latter institution in
+ the cause of education in the South,
declared that more than any 9TH
: Yer single Institution OF the South
j. Peabody College has sent forth iti
d graduates in the teaching profes
D sion, They have been a blessing 0
st untold value to the land"
e President Ogden then discusse'
g the history and work of the Confer
: enee for Education in the South
: saying I'VE have been able to enlist
many individuals III numerous d.
!, Irections-some in every state-and
by the judicious expenditure of an
Income so small as to be compare
lively negligible. to create numer-
Gus other sources of revenue that
could be adapted to the several sorts
of service. And so public opinion
has been created, educators have
been inspired, legislation has been
more intelligent, taxation has been
increased, careful study has been
stimulated, plans of development
have been put into operation, and
the whole spirit of the movement
has been kept in constant, progress
sive and intelligent activity" It's
greatest result, he said, rs to be
found in the coordination and close
association of several distinct
. boards, each charged with different
and special responsibilities but all,
with one exception concern exclus-
; lively with the educational welfare
of the southern people,
In discussing the work of asso-
ciated educational enterprises in
the South President Ogden referred
briefly to what had been done by
the late DR.. Seaman A. Knapp of this
Department of Agriculture, in the
interest of the farmers of the South
said few men in this generation OF
American citizens were his equals
: as source Of blessing to the coun-
4 try and as a splendid illustration 81
a devoted social service"
y Concluding he said: Eve are here
q in the interest of our common coun
U try and our common humanity by
{ the command of the little child, The
y humber and more needy the chile
s the more absolute is the command
1 We are here in obedience to the spir,
u it of holy service that marks the
noblest religious expression of tbs
n expanding period"