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Schooling Is Not Education.
In my opinion—for which opinion I do
not claim perfection, by a very great deal,
but I have the steadfast opinion that
every boy and girl should have a plain
common school education. The state does
that and more. too. where they will ac
cept it, and certainly every child should
1 accept It. but that is not all that Is es
sential in procuring an education.
There are many men who have been
students, well schooled In books, yet are
sometimes are not respectable people In
a community. And I am going to say
also that I have known a great many
people who were useful, valuable and
most respectable who had little or no
schooling at all. But they were educated
in other and honorable ways, neverthe
less.
As a rule, our teachers In schools are
only expected to know what the text
books teach and sometimes the text
books are put up mainly to sell, as we
understand.
• An education means preparation for
usefulness in life, whether it is learned
from text-books or in other ways.
I listened to an address made by State
School Commissioner Glenn during the
post winter, in which he gave his ex
perience with a "lost boy." Perhaps oth
ers of our readers have heard him on the
same subject. He Interviewed a small
criminal who was being conveyed to a
chaingang somewhere and found he had
received cnly the rudiments of an Eng
lish education; thereupon he urged the
necjssity for doubling the present school
appropriation as a remedy for s&viny
lost ooya. because schooling would be
efficacious in recovering lost boys.
I yield to no person in my admiratio.i
for educated persons who are well vers
ed In text-books, honorable and sterling
as to character, but I have lived long
enough to know that all the criminals do
not come from the ignorant or Illiterate
classes, and there is much valuable edu
cation which is not derived from text
books. The importance of manual train
ing Is beginning to be appreciated. Brain
work and hand work united make the
most available education. Unless the in
formation derived from text-books can
be applied to useful purposes ft is sim
ply decorative art rather than profitable
education. A carpenter who is profi
cient In mathematics has an advantage
that an uneducated carpenter may well
envy him. but there are successful car
penters who have learned to build, to
plan, to erect, who have this education
only in the head, put there by experience
and constant practlcs. without the aid
of books or school teachers.
It wou'd be the height of felly to say
that one knew all about the carpenter
bustness because he learned mathernat'es
from text-bcoks. and the other knew
nothing because bis figuring and measure
ments were acquired by exercise and
habit and not from text-books. School
ing is. therefore, not education.
In regard to the loot boys. I think
moral education must emanate from the
home, not from the general use of text
books. ,
There was something radically wrong
with the morals of the lost boy the com
missioner was so interested in. and the
rudiments of an English education had
simply nothing to do with making him
better or worse, because his education In
honesty and decency had been entirely
overlooked.
Homes for Self-Supporting Women.
Some weeks ago I called attention to
the good work that is being done by the
Woman's Christian association In large
cities, in providing a respectable place
for women who must be self-suppqrting,
where they may go. not only for noon and
evening meals, but for rest, for educa
tional work and such innocent recreation
as their busy lives allow. I had a friend
who had occasion to visit the “Business
Women’s club" in Louisville. Ky., and
she wrote me of the excellent work that
was done in that line. My last mail
brought me a sweet letter from the pres
ident of the elab.’ How grateful I do feel
when a little word of mine is helpful and
cheering! Said she: "I address you as
a fHend. for you are a friend, although
we have never seen each other and may
not in this world, but your earnest words
convince me. A friend employed on one
of our religious papers (The Christian
Observer! noticed an article in the Semi-
Weekly Journal, of Atlanta. Ga.. about
our club. She brought it to me yesterday.
il do appreciate the kindness of publish-
• Ing things that are good, to try to make
the world better, and the lives we touch,
happier and brighter, and I call you our
friend and I write to thank you. If you
can send me names of prominent women
in Georgia who would like to enter upon
such philanthropic work I will send them
cur 'Tear Book.” etc.”
Mrs. James Buchanan is the president's
name. Her address is 431 Walnut street,
Louisville. Ky.
These energetic women have by their
efforts purchased a splendid lot, costing
$14,000. They have paid ss.ooo up to date.
The house when complete will have 40 to
M bed rooms, which will be rented to self
supporting respectable women at S 3 per
month, and they can get their meals at
the restaurant as they desire.
This is an educational, uplifting, pre
ventive work, far better in results than
to care for suffering women after wrong
ha« been Inflicted on them. There is noth
ing in life so beneficial to any character as
self-reliance along with independent integ
rity and genuine self-respect. Os course
We would prefer to find every girl and wo
man in the United States safely domiciled
tn her own happy home, but alas! that
cannot be. It is labor and toil, vexation
and vain human hopes -which we must
contend with in our present life. I am
glad that these dear good philanthropic
women of Louisville, Ky., were cheered
by my words.
The Duty of the Voter.
In an abstract view of the subject the
privilege of choosing one's own repre
sentatives is also one of the most serious
responsibiity and danger, as well as a
r><h and lofty prerogative.
If your representative speaks in your
stead or acts as your agent it is impos
sible to be too much concerned about the
selection of a proper sort of a candidate
LT the reeteictions you may place upon
his actions when he is allowed to stand in
jour place and decide upon what is proper
for you and your own household in a so
cial and legislative point of view.
It is a magnificent opportunity which
the Maker of heaven and earth has
granted to the individual voter in these
United States of America.
Our ancestors believed they were build-
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ing well when they threw off the British
yoke and won for their descendants the
inestimable blessings of civil and relig
ious liberty. To perpetuate and maintain
these privileges they adopted the ballot
system, where every qualified voter might
express his convictions and demand hon
est government for the whole country in
a fair and proper way at the voting
place.
When we look at our modern elections
and see the motives and mainsprings of
these public expressions at the ballot box,
the patriot must unavoidably suffer from
dread and apprehension in forecasting the
future of our common country in the
years to come. We seem to be triflers
where the most serious results are men
acing our happiness and prosperity. We
appear to be grossly indifferent when the
fate of ourselves and our own children
hangs in the balance.
The modem voter is in too many cases
not only indifferent and frivolous, but
criminally neglectful of his duty to the
dependent classes which are allowed no
vote, but whose destiny is at the mercy
of the unworthy and unstable voter. Our
forefathers understood the value of a
vote, or rather they properly estimated
the obligation of the voter. We seem
to forget at the present time their wise
counsels. A young man boro of and
reared by American parents was required
to wait until he was twenty-one years
old before he could assume this obliga
tion. No foreigner could enjoy the privi
lege until he became acquainted
with our laws and civil institutions
and then took a solemn oath to be true
and legal to the republic. These restric
tions were absolute. These ancestors
were careful people. They endured hard
ships and toil beyond compare to leave
this nation to their descendants as the
land of the free and home of the brave.
A man who sold his vote at that early
age of tho republic would have been dis
graced in the sight of his neighbors and
ostracised by his brethren in the church.
I can well recollect hearing much older
people than myself talk about the Yaxoo
sals in a Georgia legislature, where mem
bers were given money, land and va
rious bribes for voting to sell this pre
cious territory for a few cents an acre.
L’p in Washington city in the house li
brary. under the name of American state
papers, anybody can go today and get
th? names and full account of how these
men sold their votes. I took a list my
self years ago. The stain of dishonor is
there to stay. It was put there to stay
as an example to coming generations.
A man’s honor in those days counted
for more than lands or money. A vote
was a sacred privilege, a trust, based on
Indivdual integrity.
Our very existence as a nation depends
on preserving this privilege as our ances
tors desired it should be kept, clean and
honest.
I with I might call back twenty years
of vigorous life that I might, with God’s
help, try to influence the young men of
today to examine into the sacredness of a
ballot in a free government by the peo
ple and of the people. As sure as we
live this obligation should be continually
explained by press and pulpit. The pre
servation of individual character Is large
ly at stake in this iesue.
The young people who watch their eld
ers <n popular elections are not blind or
Indifferent. They hear the talk about
tricks and trades. They see the vto’.atlpns
of taw around and about the polls long
before they'can cast a ballot for them
selves.
If they flr.d negroes or degraded whites
made drunk on whisky or paid money, or
bacon, or shoes, or flour, or anything else
by car.dtdetja and heelers to control elec
tions. or it they see or hear of tissue
ballots, of fa'as counts or destroyed votes
they a'iil be Influenced by this sad exam
ple or despise the persons who are guilty
of this crime against free government,
no matter how they stand financially in
a community or to whom they are re
lated.
It is common talk today in Georgia that
no candidate can succeed unless he is fa
vored by the "machine,” for if he Is voted
in he will be counted out.
No greater libel may be charged against
our public character if this statement is
false; no greater shame can be exposed
if it is true.
I do believe the demoralisation of ne
gro labor and much of rape violence we
owe to undue familiarity with corrupt
votes, as performed by the bad men of
both races: and it is only fair to say that
the men who would corrupt a negro’s
character or Integrity are no better than
the poor ignorant creatures who make
merchandise of this privilege when recog
nised as free cltlsens in this country.
I do believe, also, it was a sin and mon
umental crime against the privileges of a
republic to place ignorance and depravity
where it has been thus used by bad men
of both races.
The old ship of state has been fearfully
battered in the last 40 years. There is a
providence which watches over the lame
and the lasy'or it would have gone to
pieces on the rocks long ago. When brib
ery succeeds anywhere there are indica
tions which point to final shipwreck, and
the destinies of this people seem to be in
the hands of wreckers who are luring us
to ruin by false lights. Look at your own
child and then answer the question.
"Shall he try to cheat and defraud at the
polls?” Take warning! Look at your own
daughter and ask yourself if her life and
fortunes, after you are gone, must be at
the mercy of lawmakera who go into of
fice bound hand and foot by the influences
which elected them? For ycur own sake
as an honest citizen, act in this matter
as if God was now calling you to account
for the trust reposed in you! Your vote
is really cast for all the women, all the
youths, all the dependent classes of your
country. Men of Georgia, set a good ex
ample for your own boys!
England Proposed to Antagonize the
United States.
By reason of some friction between Ber
lin and London deplomats it Is discovered
that England was quite ready to aid Spain
in curbing the UnltM States at the break
ing out of the Spanish-American war in
the year 185®.
Great Britain proposed a general alli
ance for curbing purposes, and Germany
refused to sign the paper presented by the
English ambassador at Berlin. '
It is somewhat unfortunate for Great
Britain that her officials denied this move
ment looking to Spain's protection against
the United States when hostilities began
over Cuba.
Os course it was entirely natural that
Great Britain’s sympathies should be en
listed on the side of monarchy and against
a republic.
The very existence of a mqaMM|L de
pends largely on preventing
of republican forms of goveißßPit. It is
a fight for life with di
vine right of kings must not
Inside their dominions, and the L of
self-preservation demands that of
a feather should flock
Therefore, it was to be expected that
Great Britain should be more frlefidly to 1
Spain than to the United States.
Nevertheless, it is very unfortunate for
Great Britain that a question of veracity
should have arisen in regard to Great
Britain's attitude toward the United
States, as late as 1898. It will be an un
wholesome sort of remembrance whenever
another fuss among nations is on hand,
because hypocrisy anu prevarication are
as unsightly in state papers as in private
papers.
The denial Is the worst part about the
whole business, and Great Britain will not
add any appreciable honor to her good
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 24. 1902.
PERSONAL
MAGNETISM
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for the Purpose of Teaching Per
sonal Magnetism and Hypno
tism by Correspondence.
EVERYBODY MAY NOW LEARN
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The American College of Sciences of
Philadelphia, Pa., is a novel institution.
It is chartered under state laws, with
a capital of 1100,000 for the purpose of
teaching Personal Magnetism, Hypnotism,
Magnetic Healing, etc., by correspondence.
At an expense of over $5,000 the college
has issued a remarkable work on these
sciences, ten thousand copies of which will
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Is .elegantly illustrated with the most ex
pensive engravings, and it is decidedly the
finest and most comprehensive work of its
kind ever published. It? is the product of
the combined talent of thirty distinguish
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thoroughly explains all the hidden secrets
of Personal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Mag
netic Healing, etc. It is full of surprising
experiences, and makes many startling
disclosures in regard to the use and possi
bilities of this secret power.
The college absolutely guarantees that
anyone can learn these sciences in a few
days at home, and use the power without
the knowledge of his most intimate
friends.
The reporter asked for the names and
addresses of some of the pupils so that he
might communicate with them personally.
Several hundred were offered, from which
the reporter selected eighty-four. The re
plies received were more than sufficient to
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the wonderful benefits to be derived from
this mighty power. There were absolutely
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J. H. Schneller, 1412 Avon street, La
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teries of nature. My own father could
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i hypnotism taught by the American Col-
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name and reputation by talking one way
and acting another.
It is very fortunate for this country that
British tergiversation has been thus
checked by exposures in Berlin.
It should be, a healthy lesson for our
anglo-maniacs who are forever toadying
to English titles and becoming sycho
phants when Great Britain makes de
mands.
JUNO’S NEEDLE THAT
BUILT HER A HOUSE
When our grandmothers were girls, you
all know, needle work was a fashionable
diversion. Although the dear little Irish
poet reminded those demure maidens of
long ago that "the safest shield against
darts of Cup'.d is Minerva's thimble,"
most of them not only wore thimbles but
snared hearts in the floss attached to
their needles.
. The needle is not only woman's ancient
weapon against ennui but the oftentimes
frail and brittle oar with which she at
tempts to paddle her own canoe on life's
uncertain ocean.
All this while you are doubtless strain
ing your mental vision to behold the point
of "Juno's needle" and wondering what I
can have attached to the eye thereof that
is worth waiting to see. What do you
suppose "Juno” did with her needle be
side using it "to broider the long clothes
and neat little coat” of her two chil
dren?
She built a house with it!
Yes. a house of six rooms, most of the
woodwork being mahogany, the weather
boarding of hardwood shingles and this
house stood in a forest in Liberia near the
coast.
But how did I come to know about this
marvelous story? It is as simple as twice
two is four.
Ever since I began to read, the trav
els and adventures of men and women
have delighted me. You might not be
lieve how young I was when I had been
everywhere with "Peter Parley,” with
Bayard Taylor, with Robinson Crusoe,
with Young Marooners, with Swiss Fami
ly Robinson, and every shipwrecked trav
eler that fell into my hands.
The first books that brought Africa to
my Imagination were the travels of Dr.
Livingston, the stories of the Dutch set
tlers that Bill Nye travestied so excru
ciatingly, and many journals of natural
ists and travelers in the dark continent.
I read with greatest Interest "Cast Up By
the Sea,” "Uarda” and the "Sad Story of
an African Farm,” though I never could
be interested in any of Rider Haggard's
books. Africa has always been a fasci
nating country to ms, and when I saw so
much in the papers about "our brothers
in black” going over to possess their an
cestral lands, I was moved to speak on
the subject to a few colored sisters of
my acquaintance.
Imagine my surprise when my long-time
washerwoman, Kitty Marshall, told me
she had a sister who had lived in Africa
for sixteen years and was now a resident
of Macon, Ga.
I exacted a promise from Kitty then
and there to bring that sister of hers to
see me, to tell me all about her African
experience the first time she came here
on a visit.
That is how I came, soma time ago. to
see “Juno” and to hear a brief account of
her life in Africa. She is a very intelli
gent yellow woman, perhaps 60 years old,
but still robust, erect and wei. dressed.
She wore quaint rings on her fingers and
a gold watch with the tiny golden chain
and slides that our grandmothers wore.
She looks somewhat like that “Lily of the
Sky” who came here some years ago as
queen of the Hawaiian islands.
I found that Juno had married a weal
thy free negro merchant in her 17th year,
and soon afterward had gone to Liberia
to live. They carried furniture, provisions,
seeds and money with them to that far
off land.
Soon after their arrival in Africa Juno’s
husband was prostrated with fever and
was ill for more than a year. She herself
had only slight fever, and never went to
bed, her youthful vigor, her energetic na
ture and devotion to her husband uphold
ing her. During the long months in which
she was becoming acclimated she sewed
busily and made money. She had been
trained as a seamstress by her American
mistress.
The African landlady that was engaged
in the business of caring for immigrants
suggested to Juno that it would be well
to begin the erection of a house, so as to
have a home ready for occupancy when
her husband should be restored to health.
SO the house was built by slow degrees
of mahogany and other fine hardwoods,
from the fruits of her needle. The first
floors were of bamboo thatch. Imagine a
house with a kind of wicker floor! After
ward a plank floor was put in and many
years afterward her husband made of it
a nice nine-room house.
Juno told with much enthusiasm of the
fine corn they raised, as well as the many
native food plants—the sugar cane, coffee,
oranges, . lemons and plantains. No
peaches, apples or plums would grow at
all.
“Africa is the home of the negro race,"
said Juno with emphatic nods; “it is a
land that richly repays labor. To be sure,
idleness in Africa meets with the same
reward as it does in America, but a man
can work half as much in Liberia as he
does in Georgia and make twice or thrice
as much.” ♦
After the death of *-er husband Juno
longed to return to America and live
near her relatives and frienus. Against
the advice of her lawyer she sold all her
property in Africa and returned to Ma
con with her two children.
6ne was still equipped with her faithful
needle, and life regained for her much of
the comfort and peace of her youthful
days. Juno believes a woman of her race
can earn money with a needle rightly used
in almost any corner of the world. Her
experience in Liberia is worth remember
ing. L ' c -
OUR SCHOOLS AND CANADA’S.
Continuance of the Test of the Relative
Thoroughness of Instruction.
Baltimore American.
A novel and Interesting test of the rela*
tlve thoroughness of the public school sys
terns of the United States and of Canada
is being conducted by Anson A. Gard, for
merly of New York, but now a resident of
Canada, and the author of a book on
Quebec. Mr. Gard is in this city as the
guest of Mr. Irvin G. Herman. Geography,
history, and the forms of government are
the fields in whtth the test is being made
It came about as a result of a contro
versy whfch resulted in a wager between
Mr. Gard <nd a prominent teacher of Mon
treal, and to be decided on whether Cana
dian school children know more generally
about the United States than American
school children do of Canada.
The Canadian test took place in Mon
treal about the middle of January. More
than 1,000 children of the high and gram
mar schools of the province were assem
bled and fifty questions about the United
States prepared by Mr. Gard were pro
pounded. One afternoon this week Mr.
Gard asked fifty questions about Canada
of fifty pupils in a public school in the
central portion of this city. The same
fifty questions were asked of pupils in
Brooklyn, N. Y., and Hackensack, N. J.,
this week. Mr. Gard said the answers
given by the Baltimore pupils were far
better and showed a greater degree of
thoroughness than those given by the pu
pils of the Brooklyn schools.
Mr. Gard stated that thus far in his in
vestigation he had found that the Cana
dians knew a great deal more about the
United States than the American school
children did about Canada. Mr. Gard will
make other tests in the near future in
Washington and Philadelphia.
NOBODY~sfOQD~UP.
The Failure of a New Street Car Con
ductor’s Scheme to Get
AU the Fares.
Indianapolis Journal.
Old street ear conductors sometimes have a
great deal of trouble with their "under
studies.” It Is the custom of the Indianapolis
company to "break in” new men by sending
them out over the lines with experienced em
ployees who have been long in the service.
This is done in order to train the new men
to act as substitutes or "extras." Recently a
Brightwood line conductor had one of the new
men in charge. On the first trip the begin
ner was shown how to collect fares, how the
rod connecting with the indicator should be
manipulated to show a ticket, how it should
be worked to indicate a cash fare and how the
trip reports should be made out. In the mean
time teaching him the names of the streets
and when to call them. On the next trip the
understudy thought he had learned his part
so well he asked permission to run the car
himself under supervision. The old conductor
watched the new man collect the fares and
saw that he missed a number. When he re
turned to the rear Os the car he was Informed
that he was five short—that there were thirty
passengers and he had collected only twenty
five fares. Without waiting for further advice
the new man put his head In the door of the
car and shouted:
"All who have not paid their fares will please
stand up."
Not a passenger moved. Perhaps they were
too amazed—probably as much astonished as
the old conductor. The silence was becoming
almost painful. Finally a suburbanite nudged
his neighbor and asked him why he didn't
stand up.
"Can’t He,” was the reply. "I’m honest.
Paid my fare.”
By this time the humor of the situation
began to dawn on the other passengers. The
men laughed and the women smiled—all ex
cept five girls in the front part of the car,
who were so busy talking they had not heard
the new conductor's "stand-up” order nor
witnessed what followed. One of the girls had
a bunch of transfer tickets partly concealed
in a glove. The old conductor knew where the
missing faces were and had Intended to tell
the new man, but the latter did not give him
time. The incident was ended by the old
conductor walking to the talkative girls and
saying “Fares, please.” as if nothing had hap
pened. The transfers were surrendered with
out the girls knowing an attempt had been
made to introduce an innovation in street car
ethics.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
The amount of gold coin in actual circula
tion in the world is estimated by the Bank of
England officials to be about 885 tons.
French gray has practically been decided
upon as the most serviceable and most invisible
color for the war paint to be used on vessels
in the English Navy.
Ct.a result of the recent earthquake near
Lucca Is that the lake known as the Lago
Santo, in the Tuscan Apennines, has gradually
disappeared within the. last few days.
One of the Ostend steam trawlers, after but
twelve days at sea, returned to port last week
with a catch which sold for over 12.435. The
haul and the price constitute a record for the
town.
Cancer Cured.
Dr. B. F. BYE'S Oils for cancers and
tumors are a painless cure. Most cases
are treated at home without the services
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Educational Field |i
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Conducted By Hon. M. B. Dennis
HOW EDUCATION BOARD WILL
IMPROVE RURAL SCHOOLS
A new and Important movement in be
half of the rural public schools of North
| Carolina was set on foot at a conference
between leading educators and business
men last week. The conference was held
in Greensboro, under the auspices of the
state association for the'improvement of
the public schools, assisted by the south
ern education board. Among those pres
ent were the governor of the stat*, the
state superintendent of public instruc
tion, presidents and professors of the
leading state and denominational colle
ges, and a number of city and county su
perintendents of schools. Every phase of
the educational life of the state was rep
resented. The prime object of the con
ference was the advancement of the gen
eral educational life of the commonwealth
and the keynote of all the discussions was
the improvement of the rural public
schools as the best means of accomplish
ing this end. The quickened interest in
education during the past few years has
resulted in giving the towns and cities
greatly improved school facilities, but
the new life has not touched the rural
districts, except in rare instances. The
result is that, while the schools of the
towns and cities have advanced steadily,
the rural communities have stood still,"
or gone backward. While special taxes
have been levied for school purposes in
the centers of population, the meager
sums apportioned among the sparsely set
tled country districts have been insuffi
cient to meet the demands of the people.
This has resulted in an influx of popula
tion from the country to the towns, caus
ing some apprehension as to the future
welfare and stability of the rural dis
tricts.
Believing the time had come when the
educationally stronger communities should
help the weaker, a number of leaders in
education called the Greensboro confer
ence for the purpose of devising ways and
means of improving the school facilities
of the rural districts. Several practical
movements were inaugurated which will
mean much for the cause of universal
education in this state and throughout the
entire south. One of these is an organiza
tion of women which has for its object the
improvement and beautifying of rural
school houses and grounds. Another prac
tical result was the formation of a society
for consolidating rural school districts,
building better school houses, and secur
ing longer terms and more ■ capable
teachers.
The women’s organization was conceived
by the students of the North Carolina
State Normal and Industrial College for
women, a majority of whom are from the
rurai districts and know from experience
the wretched conditioh of the buildings
and the unfavorable surroundings of most
of the country "free schools.” The mis
sion of this society is to agitate and cre
ate a sentiment for better things, and the
fact that the organization already has
members in every county in the state au
gurs well for the movement.
These women believe it is impossible for
the people to take the proper interest in
education so long as their schools are con
di ctul in -‘maii un<i uncomfortable huts,
surrpunded by uncouth and untidy
grounds.
When the women have created a senti
ment in any community for better school
houses and grounds the other organization
will undertake the task of supplying the
demand. At the Greensboro conference a
local organization was formed for Guil
ford county and more than $4,000 was sub
scribed by the people of Greensboro for
building school houses and improving
schools in the rural districts of the county.
This amount was duplicated by the gen
eral education board through its secretary
and executive officer. Rev. Dr. Wallace
Buttrick, who was present. None of this
fund is to be applied to any school until
after the people of the community have
voted upon themselves a special tax for
education .thus encouraging the principle
of self-help. The money is available for
schools of both races. This is the first in
stance in the south of a general subscrip
tion to be used for public education out
side the community in which it was raised.
Other towns and cities in North Carolina
will probably follow Greensboro's exam
ple.
No event in the recent educational life
of the state has attracted more attention
or aroused more enthusiasm than the work
of this conference. Leading educators pre
dict that the movement here set on foot
will result in great good to the cause of
universal education throughout the entire
south and prove the beginning of a vig
orous educational, campaign. The senti
ment of the meeting may be judged by the
fact that Governor Aycock's declaration
that the time for talking was over and the
time for practical work was at hand if
the south is to banish illiteracy from its
borders, was more loudly applauded than
any other utterance of the conference.
The Greensboro conference was signifi
cant not only because of the prominence
of the participants and the enthusiasm of
the meeting, but especially because this
is the first appropriation of the General
Education Board since it opened its offices
in New York. The board has at its dis
posal between one and two million dollars
to aid in southern educational develop
ment and its action is supposed to indi
cate one direction in which a large part
of the money will be appropriated. Liberal
help to those determined to help them
selves is clearly indicated as the policy of
the board.
W. H. Baldwin, Jr., is president and
George Foster Peabody treasurer of the
General Education Board. Its other mem
bers are Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Albert Shaw,
Morris K. Jessup, Frederick T. Gates,
President Gilman, Robert C. Ogden and
Walter H. Page.
North Carolinians are grateful for the
generous action of the board. All classes
of citizens are hopeful that the policy in
augurated will do much to stimulate the
already marked activity everywhere mani
fest in the state to secure an effective sys
tem of public schools in the rural dis
tricts.
Greensboro, N. C.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR
EDUCATION IN TJ4E SOUTH
Preparations arg rapidly maturing for
the meeting of the Fifth Annual Confer
ence for Education in the south, to be held
at Athens. Ga.. April 24 to 27 inclusive.
It is expected that there will be an even
larger gathering of educators and citi
zens from all over the south than there
was last spring at Winston-Salem, N. C.
Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York,
president of the southern education
board, which is the outcome of these con
ferences and which recently started the
general education board to finance this
great movement in the south, will bring
on a special train a number of distinguish
ed educators and philanthropists from the
north and will be greeted at Athens by
a large number of prominent teachers, cit
izens and public men from the south.
All persons interested in educational
advancement in the south will be cordlaly
welcomed. The railroads will give a rate
of one and one-third fare on the certifi
cate plan south of the Potomac and Ohio
and east of the Mississippi.
The program which follows shows the
high character of the discussions and in
cludes a number of prominent speakers.
The conference will open on Thursday
afternoon, the 24th. with a business ses
sion; 8 p. m., the address of welcome vzill
be made by the Hon. Clark Howell, of
Georgia; the president's annual address
by Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York;
a response, by Prof. C. C. Thach, of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Friday,
April 25th, 10 a. tn., a business session of
the conference; “Education and the Vol
untary Tax.” by the Hon. C. B. Aycock,
governor of North Carolina; general dis
cussion, introduced by the Hon. H. St.
George Tucker, of Virginia; Dr. John
Massey, of Alabama, and the Hon. Robert
B. Fulton, chancellor of the University of
Mississippi; 3 p. m., "Popular Education
as the Primary Policy of the South,” by
the Hon. Hoke Smith, of Georgia; "The
Press in its Relation to Popular Educa
tion,” by the Hon. Edgar Wilson, of Mis
sissippi. and the Hon. St. Clair McKel
way. editor of the Brooklyn Eagle; “The
Bureau of Investigation and Information
of the Southern Educational Board,” by
Prof. P. P. Claxton, of Tennessee; gen
eral discussion, introduced by Mr. W. H.
Baldwin, Jr., of New York, and the Hon.
Hugh. H. Hanna, of Indiana. 8 p. m.,
"Education Through Handicraft," by
Carleton B. Gibson, superintendent of
schools, Columbus, Ga.; “The Child of the
Operative,” by Lawton B. Evans, super
intendent of schools, of Augusta. Ga.; the
"Child and the State,” by Dr. Edwin A.
Aiderman, president of Tulane University
of New Orleans, La.; "School Houses and
, School Environment,” by Dr. Charles D.
Mclver, president of the State Normal
school, Greensboro, N. C. Saturday.
April 26th, 10 a. m., business session of
toe conference; "Educational Supervis
ion,” by Dr. W. T. Harris, U. S. commis
sioner of education: "The Denominational
College and Popular Education," by Prof.
H. N. Snyder, of Wofford College, S. C.:
"School Equipment and Re-enforcement,”
by Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of Review of
Reviews, New York; general discussion,
introduced by the Hon. John M. Small.
M. C., from North Carolina, and Dr. H.
B. Frissell, principal of Hampton insti
tute, Virginia. The afternoon of Satur
day. the 26th. will be given to attendance
upon the exercises of memorial day. 8 p.
m., "Educational Progress at the South,”
by the Hon. A. H. Longino, governor of
Mississippi; "Co-operation in Educational
Effort.” by Judge Thomas C. Jones, ex
governor of Alabama; general discussion,
addresses by Mr. Hamilton Mabie, of New
York, Professor Farnam, of New Haven,
and Dr. Felix Adler, of New York; bene
diction by the Rt. Rev. W. N; McVicar, T.
S. D., bishop coadjutor of Rhode Is
land: Sunday, April 27th, Sunday services
in churches, morning and nigh-;; general
assembly in afternoon to be addressed by
a number of speakers.
A PREACHER’S PLEA
FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
To the Editor of The Journal:
Dear Sir: I have been reading the arti
cles in The Journal for some time con
cerning the public schools of Georgia, and
I should like space in your valuable paper
for a thought or two on that subject.
Public schools have reached the point in
their history when they are no longer on
trial, but have become permanent and
their position is impregnable. The person,'
who criticises them per se presumes to
measure himself against the almost uni
versal opinion of scholars, statesmen and
economists the world over. In the dawn
of the twentieth century it la no longer a
question as to whether we shall have pub
lic schools or not. That question has been
settled long ago. So gigantic have they be
come that to put ourselves in the way of
their progress is to cast ourselves under
the juggernaut wheels only to be crushed.
So universally are they accepted by the
best educated nations and individuals that
to oppose them is to stultify ourselves tn
the opinion of right thinking people. The
public schools are here and here to stay.
All criticisms of our Georgia system which
looks to its betterment should be encour
aged and will prove helpful. All criticisms
which look to the overthrow or retrograd
ing of the public schools of Georgia are
“Like the chaff which the wind driveth
away.” The old private schools which our
fathers and mothers tell us of, however
excellent they were, have passed away.
They served their day and generation
well, but they were Inadequate to the de
mands laid upon them, and passed away
in the onward march of the present sys
tem. The public schools are by no means
perfect, but need much wisdom exercised
in the direction of their affairs: they need
the sympathy and support of the people,
and before they can hope to reach a
high degree of efficiency they will be
compelled to have mpre financial support.
If a man wants a hundred acres of land
cultivated, and engages a farmer to tend
it for him, and gives him only half
enough rations, it Is unbecoming in him
at the end of the year to criticise the
farmer for falling. That is about the atti
tude of the critics of our Georgia public
schools. We have employed officers, state
and county, to educate our children, and
have furnished them about half money
enough and now we are ready to show
our interest for the people and loyalty to
the state by currying the half fed horse
to fatten him. The horse may need cur
rying. but he needs feed first. In the
transition period of our schools, the time
was when the patrons of the schools would
pay part of the tuition; that is, the teach
er had his rates of tuition and deducted
what the public fund paid, and the pat
rons paid the balance. But the two sys
tems of private and public schools could
not exist permanently together, and the
advent of the public schools meant the
exit of the private schools as a state
system. As the one increases the other
must decrease and the supplanting is
about complete. Now there is but one
course left us; that is forward march with
the public schools. The Rubicon is passed.
The bridges are burned behind us. We
can never expect anything more from
the private schools. We may cast our ling
ering gaze back upon the deserted
camps and admire their beauty as dis
tance lends enchantment to the view, but
we have gone too far to ever return. The
destruction of our public schools would
not restore the private schools to their
former place, but would leave us without
any schools at all so far as the country
schools are concerned. Away with such
wholesale criticisms of our Georgia schools
aimed at their very foundation, and let’s
rally to their support and make them
what they ought to be. The school terms
should be lengthened to eight or nine
months in the year, all public term. We
could then command a better grade of
teachers by furnishing them employment
sufficient to make a living without going
into other occupations instead of spending
our time finding fault with our poor old
starved out system of schools, let's put
our influence on the side of more liberal
provisions; let's feed the old horse and
then we can ride him and curry him. This
is the only course open to us. He is the
only dependence for a crop and our chil-.
dren are on hand to be educated, and they
have not time to wait while we parley.
We may impoverish a generation or two
of our children while halting between
two opinions, but it is comifig, and the
sooner the better for us politically, finan
cially and every other way.
O. L. KELLEY.
Norwood, Ga.
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Spencer, on the one side, and the Roths
childs, on the other, that the Southern is
endeavoring to get possession of the L. &
N. railroad are somewhat reassuring to
this section.” The Louisville Times thinks
that later on the Sentinel may learn that
a capitalist’s denial, like a woman’s "no,”
is generally to be interpreted as an affirm
ative.
Because King Edward now opens Parliament
in person, the peers ot the realm are taking a
keener interest tn legislation. The attendance
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and of peeresses, whenever there if prospect
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GREEKS IN AN EVELESS EDEN.
New York Sun.
The most curious thing about the Greek
colony in New York city—more remarkam* •
than the dress, the customs, the coffee, the
burnished gold ornaments, the pipes andthe
speech of the Greek population of New Yore—
is the fact that there are substantially n 0
Greek women in the city.
In the last quarter of 1900 the Greek 'tnmi
gration to the port of New York included
1,267 persons—l,23l men and 36 women. " *
disparity is explained on the theory that when
a foreign country Is drawn on for emigrants
for the first time the pioneers are men and
that women emigrants do not follow until
some years after. But the statistics of Greek .
immigration to New York for the quarter end- <
Ing January 1, 1902. showed only <6
girls and women, and there are now fewer than
100 of them In New York as against 10, OTO
male Greeks. ■
In no other New York colony outside of
the Chinese, does such a disparity between
the two sexes exist, but an explanation for It
is found at home. Greece is one of the few
European countries In which there is a large
excess of male Inhabitants. As a consequence
more male than female Greeks seek homes or
employment in other countries and the er ” isr “"
tlon from Greece is not only to Turkey, Egypt
and southern France, but in recent years very
largely to the United States.
There is no religious or social reason, as
in the case of the Chinese, why Greek women,
should not come to this country as immigrants, ■
but the fact is that they don't and the Greek
colony of New York, therefore, is really com
posed of men. This is the most notable but
least picturesque thing about it.
Lieutenant Governor Tillman, if nothing
else suggests itself, can beat that left-over
sword Into a plowshare, suggests an ex
change. Following the Tillman Instinct,
he would probably prefer, however* to
beat it Into a hammer. * . ,
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