VOL X, No. 20. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL THIRTEENTH, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS
MOST HELPFUL IN HISTORY
Keynote of Result of Tenth Annual
Educational Conference.
Leading- Educators from All lart
of Country Dlicuis Quetion
of National Import.
HE executive committee
desires this year to hold
the Educational Confer
ence at a retired place
"where there may be a
great deal of conference
and study ; ample opportunity for heart
to heart talks with the prominent educa
tors assembled.
Pinehurst has been selected because it
seems admirably suited for this purpose
in every way, and it is confidently ex
pected that the result will be the most
helpful meeting in history.
Thus President Robert C. Ogden of
the Conference for Education in the
South, expressed himself during his pre
liminary visit here, and in the prophesy
is found the keynote of result of the
tentli annual meeting which has occupied
the week
THE MOST HELPFUL IN HISTORY !
Never has a more representative com
pany been drawn together, three hun
dred in number coming from all parts of
the South and many parts of the country,
including the conspicuous leaders in edu
cational lines and many prominent in
business and social life; all bent upon a
common purpose earnest discussion of
a question which concerns not only the
South, but the country as well. Never
has the subject been more carefully and
comprehensively considered or the inter
change of thought been more general,
and in three short days were expressed
the opinions of men from north, south,
east and we&t who have given their lives
to the subject of education in all its va
ried phases.
Conspicious among the men of more
than national prominence in attendance
were Governor Robert R. Glenn of North
Carolina, Governor J. M.' Terrell of
Georgia, Editor St. Clair McKelvvay of
the Brooklyn Eagle, the state superin
tendents of Education of nearly all the
southern states, the heads of nearly all
the South's universities and prominent
schools and the guests or speakers of the
Conference, with a small army of news
paper correspondents from all sections
sending the details of the meetings to
the world at large.
THE OPENING SESSION
The formal opening of the conference
came Tuesday morning, with Dr. S. C.
Mitchell of Richmond, chairman of the
executive committee, in the chair in the
absence of President Ogden ; the morn
ing being devoted to an address of wel
come by Governor Glenn, a response by
Dr. Mitchell, and the reading of the an
nual report of the Secretary of the South
ern Education board, Edgar Gardner
Murphy.
DR. MITCHELL'S RESPONSE.
In responding to the Governor s wel
come Dr. Mitchell paid the executive a
glowing tribute, expressed the pleas
ure of the delegates at the royal welcome,
and, continuing, referred to the fact that
the conference from the time of the dis
covery of its power, had been dominated
by North Carolina thought and leader
ship, paying tribute to Mclver, Aycock,
Alderman, Page, Small, Winston and
Claxton; in closing declaring that the
four foremost men in educational achieve
ment were Horace Mann, George Pea
body, J. L. M. Curry and Robert C.
Ogden.
GOVERNOR GLENN'S ADDRESS.
Governor Glenn's address was a stir
ring one, glowing with patriotism, over
flowing with pride in the "tar heel'' state,
and heart-winning in its hospitality, with
just a suggestion of southern accent,
laughter and applause alternating as the
speaker happily combined wit and
oratory.
In opening he welcomed the visitors as
onlv a Southernor can welcome, referring
to the far reaching influence of the Board
and the importance of its work. Contin
uing he touched delicately, but firmly,
upon the state's position in the matter of
coeducation of white and black, emphasiz
ing that the state could accept no offer of
aid to which a string was attached, but
gladly welcoming that which comes in
such form that the state may carry out
its ideas as it conscientously sees them.
In conclusion he dwelt upon the south's
achievements, giving interesting figures
to note the progress.
Twenty years ago, he said, the South
had $21,000,000. invested in cotton mills ;
to-day $150,000,000; then 607,000
spindles were operated ; today 9,760,000
spindles ; then our farms raised 431,000,
000 bushels of grain; now over 2,000,
000,000. In 1890 the capital invested in all kinds
of manufacturing in the south was
$095,000,000; now $1,700,000,000 ; then
the value of manufactured products was
$917,589,000; now $2,225,000,000. with a
cotton crop valued at $675,000,000 and
60,000,000 gallons of oil.
In 1880 the output of pig iron was 397,
000 tons, now 3,500,000 tons ; then 6,000,
000 tons of coal ; now 83,000,000.
From 1880 to 1900 the increase of agri
culture for the whole country was 65 per
cent ; for the south, 72 percent ; in manu
facturing, for the country, 242 per cent ;
for the south, 348 per cent ; the increase
in the value of manufactures for the
whole country, 135 per cent; for the
south, 215 per cent.
In 1870 Xorth Carolina was the poorest
state in the Union with a valuation of
260 million dollars and a population of
nine hundred thousand; now it has a
valuation of $1,000,000,000, and a popu
lation of 2,000,000,000. From 1870 to the
present time the debt has been reduced
from $40,000,000, and the state is out of
debt with its bonds selling at high pre
mium, and money in the Treasury sulli
cient to cancel every one of them.
Eighty-five per cent of all the cotton in
the world, 75 per cent of all the tobacco
and 99 per cent of all the peanuts are rais
ed in North Carolina, and this production
represents about one-half of what the
state is capable of raising. In revenue
taxes alone $4,994,000,968 has been paid
for tobacco.
The state has more mills than any other
in the country, and it is third in regard
as to spindles and looms being operated,
in 1905, there being 47,000,500 of the
former, and 2,215,000 of the latter. Be
tween 1890 and 1905 the value of manu
factured products was increased from
$40,075,000 to over $100,000,000; more
than 600,000 bales of cotton being used
or more than the state produced. North
Carolina is also the second furniture state
in the Union, High Point being next in
importance to Grand Rapids, with a total
of $2,470,000,000 invested in this equip
ment. In 1900 the south added $7,300,000 per
day, or $2,690,000,000, each year to the
wealth of the world: England adding
only $7,000,000 per week. The total value
of gold and silver production for live
years ending at that period was $2,578,
852,000 ; the total value of cotton produc
tion for the same period $2,974,000,000.
SECRETARY MURPHY'S PAPER.
Secretary Murphy's paper was next in
order and one of the most interesting of
the week to Pinehurst's northern visitors
because it went into detail concerning the
history, work and purpose of the organi
zation, which is so closely connected with
the conference.
In opening he outlined the history and
early work of the board from the time of
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A SPECTACULAR ENDING
Open Championship Fitting Close to a
Great Week of Golf.
Hon Ilrolltvi' Tie at Tliirtj-aix Hole
and Wood and llrrr mIi1I'
II mi C'loav It ace.
II H annual thirty-six hole
medal play open cham
pionship rounded out the
C h a m p i o n s h i p gol f
tournament, spectacular
iOTi play making it a fitting
ending of a great week. The special
features were a tie play-oft', for first and
the Championship gold medal, between
the local professionals, Alexander and
Donald I'oss, and a keen contest for the
possession of the gold medal oftered for
the best amateur score by J. I). Foot of
Apawamis, between Warren K. Wood, the
defeated amateur championship title
holder, and Frederick Ilerreshoft', the
Interscholastic champion ; Alexander
I'oss and Wood winning the honors,
The Poss boys went the rounds stroke
for stroke, finishing the morning round
in seventy-three and the afternoon in
seventy-nine each, a total of one hundred
and fifty-two, which considering con
ditions under which the match was played,
place the cards upon the record tablet.
The cards :
ALEXANDER ROSS.
Morning
Out 4 4 4 3 2 4 5 3 433
In -4 3 5 4 5 4 6 4 64073
Afternoon
Out-6 5 3 4 4 4 6 3 6-41
In 4 4535453 53879-152
DONALD ROSS.
Morning
Out-5 4 4 4 3 3 5 3 4-35
In 4 4445463 43873
Afternoon
Out 6 4 3 4 3 5 5 4 (540
In 3 434647 3 5-3979-152
Ilerreshoft" had the best of it at the end
of the morning round by three strokes,
but a seventy-eight by Wood, one stroke
better than the best professional score of
the afternoon, to an eighty-six for Ilerre
shoft', gave the Chicago player the medal
by the margin of three strokes with a
total card of one hundred and fiftv-seven.
The cards :
WARREN K. WOOD.
Morning . "
Out 5 5 3 4 3 5 5 2 436
In 43447573 6-43-79
Afternoon
Out 5 5 4 4 3 5 5 3 438
In 4 34 4 7 4 6 4 44078157
(Concluded on page 2.)