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NOTABLE SPEECH LAST NIGHT
ON NEGRO SUBJECT WAS MADE
Chancellor Hill Spoke on the Subject ‘Negro Education at the South” and His Address Easily Ranks With the Great Ad
dress Recently Delivered by Mr. Cleveland, Which Has Been Heralded the Country Over as the Most Able Speech on
the Negro Question Ever Delivered in the United States. Chancellor Hill Held the Closest Attention of the Dis
tinguished Educators Who Heard Him Last Night, at Richmond, and His Speech Will Result in Great Good to
the Negro Race and Bring About a Better Understanding of This Great Question on the Part of Those
Who are Desirous of Helping the Negro in the South. Races Must be Separate in School Room.
By T. W. Reed.
Richmond, Va., April 24 — (Special)—
Today has been Georgia Day at the ses
sion of the Southern Educational Confer
ence. The Georgia educators were pu»
to the front and the reputation of old
Georgia well-sustained.
Dr. Lyman Hall, president of the
Georgia School of Technoly, made one
of the strongest addresses of the confer
ence during the morning session. He
spoke of “The Needs of the New South”
and his remarks were given the most
careful attention, especially by the mem
bers of the general education board.
Other addresses during the moruiug
session were made by Dr. David F.
Houston, president of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas ; Dr
Ira Remson, president of John Hopkins
University, and Chancellor J. K Kirk-
laud, of Vanderbilt.
During the afternoon session today
there was a general discussion of a num
ber of important questions, among
which was thhe ‘Public education and
local tax ” On this subject, former
State School Commissioner G. R. Glenn
led the discussion, favoring strongly lo
cal taxation for support of schools.
Tonight Mr. R. Felton Cutting, of
New York City and Dr. Lyman Abbott,
editor of the Outlook, addressed the con
ference, but the great address of the
evening, so acknowledged by one and all,
was that of Chancellor Walter B. Hill,
of the University of Georgia, on the
subject of “Negro education at the
South.”
Chancellor Hill was perfectly conserv
ative in his remarks, but nevertheless
positive. His remark w» re h**ttrti T y en
dorsed by all from the North who weie
present and were in unison with the
trend of opinion all ovet the South.
The address of Chancellor Hill easily
takes rank alongside the recent great
utterance of Mr. Clt-veland on the same
subject Agricultural and industrial
education were urged as the solution of
the negro prol lem in the South.
Chancellor Hill, in opening his rr -
marks, said that the discussion of th s
subject was not a task of his own seek-
ing. The first qmstion he hud asked
vw, why the negro is still iu the South, I
and the answer had b< en because it was j
here that he receiyed better treatmei 11
than an j where else in the world. Bet I
for this fact there wcuid now
Northern Educational Conf« rences at |
Philadelphia or Chicago.
In part Chancellor Hill said :
“The beginning of the education of j
the negro was slavery. The South does
not regret its abolition, but she ..con
templates with satisfaction the fact that
the tuition of slavery developed the ne
gro in little more than a century from
the condition where, in the judgment of
those hostile to slavery, the negro was
fitted for the privileges of citizenship.
It is a cross-eyed theology that sees the
hand of providence in emancipation and
CHANCELLOR WALTER B. K»LT .
refuses to t-ee it in slavery. The educi ! uegro iducatuu bfgnn short y after
tion of slavery was not in books but it j em.tnc patioc and includes she b under8
wa3 education iu the habits of work nnd of the reconstruction period. As the
in practical < thics. (Fpeeially the virtues ! teaching of books had been denied to
I
of order, temperate*, fidelity and obedi- j the negro in elavi ry, it was now assum-
ence. K digious instruction of the nc- ed that the only education needed was
gro by the w hites was not neglected. ! to supply the omission, and accordingly
••Ih- second chapter in the history of an effort was made in schools and col
leges to insert into the mind of the
negro, as by a surgical operation, a cul
ture for which the Angh-Saxon race
h d been preparing through long centu
ries of growth.
' The nation has in faot remanded the
s 'lotion of the negro problem, includ
ing, of course, the pioblem of negro
education, to the South. The South is
s »lvii g the problem in wisdom and jus
tice. There are some who affect to fear
that the result of such a feeling would
be to bring the negro into dargerem
competition with the white race There
is ro more certain way by which the
CLuca-ion can dishonor the blood in
hlA veins than to Entertain the appre
hension that the negro can so overcome
racial inferiority and the advantage of a
a‘art of at least two thensand years as
to endanger the supremacy of the white
.
the South for negro education, Ohaucel-
ior Hill showed where onr pe pie had
Since 1870 spent $100,000,000 or more
than four times the arnouut spent in the
same time by Northern philanthropy on
negro education. He declared that, of
course, the policy of separate schools
will be maintained.
Continuing Chancellor Hill said: “Ne
gro education must be suited to meet
actual conditions. It must be adapted
to meet industrial and agricultural
needs. This does not mean that the
three R’s are not to be taught in the
schools. The negro citizen neodo
much as the white children the primary
education for the parposes described by
Thomas JVffer^on, whote words on this
8Q bj c. may be r guided us classic and
floal. The largest and most successful
farmer in Gt-orgn, who now works
more than a thousand hands upon his
plice, says. ‘1 want a hand in the field
to wh( m 1 can send a written inquiry or
direction a- to his work and who can
send in writing an iut llig -nt response.’
“Eighty five p» r cent* of the negroes
in tin* S ot’.i t iivaged in gai iful occupa
tions are engaged in agriculture The
importat co of ogriiiubure is in the d-
rrct ratio of 85 to 15
“There is auother direction in which
the education of the negro should be
broaght more in touch with life. It
should bt* more distinctly ethical.” Mr.
Hill then di-enssed the reasons for in-
pedagogio genius would devote itself to
the solution of this ftatore of the prob
lem.
In conolnsio" Mr. Hill declared that
the solution of the negro problem, so far
as we can see it within that immediate
fntnre which may be forecasted from the
past and present is the training of the
negro in agriculture and mechanism up
to the point where he will become more
and more the owner of homes and more
and more attached to the farm
Tomorrow the conference will tc.ke iu
the University of Virginia at Charlottes-
ville and will visit the old home of
Thomas Jefferson.
GEORGIA'S GREATEST RIVAL, AUBURN, GOES DOWN IN DEFEAT WITH
MYDDLETON THE HERO OF THE REST GAME OF THE PRESENT SEASON.
BY GEORGE L. CLIFTON.
Before the largest crowd that ever
witnessed a baseball game In Athens,
Anbnrn went down in defeat by Geor
gia and Myddleton.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt the
Crackers have demonstrated their ability
to play the game in such a way that
sweeps all before them, and from now
on defeat will be relegated to the ex
treme rear. The article of ball pnt np
yesterday afternoon was of the profes
sional sort, and while errors were plenti
ful against the Georgians, not bnt one
oonnted for anything.
A marvelous improvement has been
shown In the batting of the red and
blacks. Time after time the sphere was
swatted ont and hit the tnrf unmolested
by the cuticles of the Alabamians, and
the Ideal atmosphere was blasphemed
try the nnolean pig skin that went spin
nlng and whirling alODg in dtfiant
frolio. Their fielding was sensational,
soorohing grounders and speedy linen
were handled with lightning rapidity.
The peerless ontfielden npheld their
well earned reputation—the beet trio
that graocs a Southern field or any other
for that matter.
As for the pitching, well Middleton
was in the box. His work was phenom.
enal in every sense of the word. Coo’,
undisturbed and stoady, he put up an
exhibition of twirling that has never
been equaled on Herty ii '’d El veil
men lunged at his benders frothed at
the month, succumb-d, and went to the
bench, exasperated. Two hits only did
he yield and those in the first inning,
and for the following eight innings
qniet reigned in the hitting line.
Fleischman's work deserves special
notice. He had perfect control over
himself aud hit well.
The features of the game were the
heme run of Anderson, a beautiful
catch by Boyd of Auburn, aud the
lightning double play made by Ander
son and Dickinscn that electrocuted a
man at home plate and came very near
being a triple-
In the first inning Jaques opened up
with bis nsnal hit Harmon sacrificed
and Dickinson caught the ball squarely
in the month and ripp>d ont a single
and Jaqnes scored.
In the third Harmon smote a hnsky
one deep In the right garden, and
Walker followed with a corking single,
bat it was one that all glory lay in swell
ing the batting average as he was
caught tried and convicted at second
Diokinson reached the initial bag aa the
result of nu Alphonse-Gaston act on the
part of Hall and Hurt, Harmon rambled
lntne.
In the fonrt l inning Anderroa swat
ted the sphere a terrific blow and a
home run was to his credit. llcCalla
reached first oil Hall’s error, and Fleich-
man lifted the leather for two bags
Myddleton duplicates McCalla and
“Reddy” scored. Walker perched on
the initial base by a favor of Hall’s and
Fleischtnau crossed the rubber
In the niuth B aver [aited th; Olark
Griffith for two bases, Anderson sir gled
and Beaver tcored. McCalla got a free
pass aud Mjddleton hit safe scoring Mo
Calla and Anderson.
In the first inning, the Auburn-haired
Dlacksmiths started ont b lively, bnt it
proved to be the only iuuing in which a
goose egg didn't grace the score board.
Walker singled and Hall died ignomi
nionsly by striking ont. Boyd reached
first on player's choico and Walker safe
on third tin Ilarmon's error. Mitchell
hit safe and Walker and Boyd scored.
Official score:
AB. R
5 1
6 1
Beaver, lb., S
Anderson, 2b., 5
McCalla, If., 3
Fleischmau, ss., 5
Myddleton, p., 4
GEORGIA.
Jaqaei, of.,
Harmon, 3U.,
Walker, rf„
Dickinson, o..
H. PO. A.
1 0 0
5 0 2
1 1 0
1 12 2
AUBURN.
Walker. If..
Hall, ss.,
Boyd, cf ,
Mitchell, c.,
McK iiry, 2b.,
Ueucher, rf.,
Hart, 3b.,
Hill, lb.,
Foy, p.,
AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
3 1110 0
35 2
27 9
Summary : Home mu. Anderson ;
two base bits, Fletschman, Harmon,
Beaver; struck ont, by Myddleton 11, by
Fov 4 ; bases on balls, oft Myddleton 1,
off Foy 5 ; umpire, Floyd Foster; time,
i hoar 50 minutes.
The Tech Game Monday.
Now for the Tech. The Btudents are
ready, the Athens people are ready, and
they will all go to Atlanta en mass9 to
witness the downfall of the preanmptn
ous blacksmiths. Above all, the Geor
gia team is folly prepared to administer
a stinging defeat. Yesterday's game
li is put the boys on their mettle and
they are thirsting for the blood of other
teams, and most of all for that of the
Tech after such nnconrteons treatment
at their hands in respect to the Auburn
game.
Judging from compariston of scores
the Crackers have the advantage, for
Georgia overwhelmingly defeated Wake
Forest aud the Carolinians in torn
downed the Ttch by the decisive score
of 9 to 5.j
However, all of Georgia's money is
expected to be covered, so its, “Ho, for
a battle royal at Brisbine.”
Manager Boyd has secured reduced
rates of $150 over 'he Seaboard Air
Line on Monday ou account of the
game, so all go over and see Georgia
win.
Good for Children
The pleasant to take and harmless
One Mmnte Cough Care gives immedi
ate relief in all cases of Googh, Cronp
and LaGrippo because it does not pass
immediately into the stomach, bnt taxes
effect right at the seat of the trouble. It
draws oat the inflammation, heals and
soothes and onres permanently by en
abling the lungs to contribute pure life-
giving &ud life-sattaining oxygen to the
blood and tissues. The Urr Drag Go.
REDUCED RATES
ATLANTA MONDAY
Seaboard Runs Excursion
From Athens to Geor
gia-Tech Game.
University of Georgia students end
people of Athens will be glan to know
that there will be an rxcumon to At
lanta on Monday, Memorial Day, on
account of the fact that Georgia plays
Tech in the Gate city on that day
The S-aboard will ran a special train
leaving Athens early in the morning
and reluming that night. A rednood
rate of $1. 50 for the round trip will be
charged. Details have been arranged
and are announced in The Bauner today
in a display advertisement of the Sea
board Air Line.
Test One Sack
Ol "Clifton" floor and yon will find IS
makes more bread, better bread, and
gives better satisfaction than any flour
yon oan bay.
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