The Denver star., 1915-11-20

made today by public agencies and pri.
vate benehcence He was u business
man. He knew business methods. He
had personally shared in the work OF
organizing the scattered and ductuat
ling retail trade Of the sixties into the
great department stores of today. No
one who knew his work in the estab
ltshment founded and still headed by
John Wanamaker but saw in that work
the training. and ability which later
fruited In great national task. Above
all. he was large minded. large heart
ed Christian to whom all men were
brothers and all work divine service.
Th1s task was as simple in its elc-
ments as 1t was difficult in its solution
There were the great, liberal, but un-
co-ordinated expenditure Of southern
states for white and black, effective
and useful. but twenty years ago out of
the current of national educational
movements and development There
were the institutions for the Negro
founded by northern benevolence and
TOO often for various reasons now hap
PLY disappearing apart from the COM
munities in which they were. There
were the southern colleges and univer.
stiles, the academies and lesser insti-
tutions, old and new, which before the
civil war had given the south larger
proportion of college graduates than
any other section, but whose work at
the opening of this century was not In
many cases interviewer with the new
education of the south.
Contributions on a large scale came
as result of Mr. Ogden's labors. He
was member OF the General Educa-
ton board, with the Rockefeller fund
to disburse, and he inspired its work
in the south, work with grants in
aid Of institutions, long continued ex-
penditure for agricultural training
and, more lately, the sanitary cam
paigns against the hookworm and 9th
er maladies. The Jeanes fund of ST.
100000 for aiding rural Negro schools
in the south is the outcome of the
movement of which Mr.. Ogden was
the head. and is spreading industrial
training. There are other great gifts
But gifts are nothing unless in them
abides the soul of good, born of good
men working together to good ends in
noble self sacrifice. Mr.. Ogden de. |
veloped n new tool and instrument of |
national education and self knowledge. |
Year by year. at his own cost and eli |
expenditure out of all proportion to his |
means and income. as lesser and mar |
rover men reckon values. he took n
trainload of northern and southern
largely of their means and those who
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southern city to another. In each-in
WinstonSalcm. y. c.; In Athens, Ga:
in Richmond, Va: Birmingham. Ala:
Columbia :. c.: Lexington, Ky: Pine
hurst. y. c.. Memphis. Tenn: Atlanta.
Ga; Little Rock. Ark: Jacksonville.
Fla, and Nashville, Tenn.-there was
held Il conference of the Southern Edu.
cation board. which he had organized
and to n large extent supported.
The press of the south gave these
conferences a wider and more liberal
report than have the newspapers OF
any part of the United States given TO
IN educational movement. These re
ports educated n public Of newspaper
readers no halls could hold and no
city could gather The work which
the south itself had done grew plain
Needs still greater became visible.
This new movement in education
valuclesS but for the work already
done. supported and continued by
southern taxpayers and southern cdu.
cators,. co-ordinated. inspired and
made OF national knowledge all that
was in progress for white and black
alike.
Professor Talcott Williams Is III"
director of the school OF journalism of
the Pulitzer foundation in Columbia
New York.