The Omaha guide., 1939-05-27

9te- HOIlpl0n dlulIlIl group, pres. AflTuT
Howe warmly presented DR.. Patterson to
the audience. The datter discussing the
wisdom of the Hampton program of edu-
cation said in part, the wisdom of the
Hampton program had to be established
amidst the early different beginnings of
other educational ventures. We Jar well
imagine that the decision reached as to
the kind of education that this institution
should offer required all that a boyhood
as the son of missionary parents in ha-
wall, a close c0mpanionShip with Mark
Hopkins, one of the great teachers of this
nation, and a period of service with Ne
gro troops in the Civil War could give. Let
us remember that the eagerneSs for a
classical education on the part of the re-
Gently emancipated slave was generous
ly endorsed in the attitude of America to-
ward education. The land grant college
established according to the Morrill, Act
in eighteen sixty-two, in order to promote
liberal and practical education in the re-
Spective states, Mas ContempOraleouS
and ever today the battle continues to
establish a complete dignity of vocational
and technical education that will give
it a parity status with the classics. Thus
the ~oft-repeated question as 10 why the
man who knows what was done and who
did it should be regarded as superior to
the one who knows what to do and how
to do it. To have been able TO maintain
a straight course through the years in
terms of the traditional emphasis of the
Hampton program is the finest possible
evidence of the Scantity of that program.
After discussing national, social and
economic changes, DR.. Patterson turned
to the problems of the South and said
among things that no section has been
more heard or wrote about in the past few
years than the South. The country at large
is concerned about the South as an inte-
grail part of the nation, a section whose
social and economic lag is finding social
and economic re~precussions of increas-
ing severity in the nation at large. The
future of cotton, the freight rate struct-
ure, human migration, and even measures
of internal adjustment are being scrutin-
lied closely from without lest any sudden
change in any of these factors result in
distress to other areas of the nation. If
the South says equaIize freight rates, the
North says no. If the South says we will
grow more livestock and feed and food
crops, the middle west says no. If the
South attempts to industriaIize the ansW-
er is the same. 1t is to be regretted that
the interest and concern with which much
of the nation regards the South is weight
ed on the side of alarm for proposed
chances in terms of immediate maIadjusi
ment in preference to what may be a sat-
isfactory adjustment for the long pull a.
head.
From within, the South is concerned
about the twenty five million mouths il
must feed in the absence of new frontiers
to conquer if these frontiers are regarded
in terms of areas of unexpected natura
wealth. With its chief money crop ir
unquestioned jeopardy. with millions Of
its fertile acres lost by erosion and much
of its prime forest growth want only des-
troyed, it must also face the FACT thai
u:IIionc of ifc citizonC oro nounrfu n. ctric,