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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Potter County, Texas
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At the Conference for Education in the South in Nashville, Tenn., on April 6, Erwin Craighhead discussed pre-Civil War educational limitations and a new era of educational, agricultural, industrial, and economic progress in the South, driven by immigration and better government.
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Nashville, Tenn., April 6.—Civic and economic conditions in the South were discussed in a paper by Erwin Craighhead, of Mobile, Ala., before the Conference for Education in the South, here today.
The subject was "A Conference for Education in the South in Relation to Civic and Economic Advancement in the South."
Mr. Craighhead first reviewed conditions existing before the civil war when there were no great industries, and but few great cities comparatively speaking in the South. In this connection he said:
"The educational facilities were limited to the cities and towns chiefly. The absence of good roads made communication in the rural districts difficult. Public schools had small and intermittent patronage. Well-to-do people had their children taught in private schools or by tutors, or taught them at home, and had them 'finished' at northern colleges or universities."
The speaker, later referring to immigration, said:
"We have come now to a new era I may call it the era of educational, agricultural and industrial development. It has been brought about partly by the changed conditions, the new spirit in the South, and partly by the economic movement, the immigration movement into the south the land seekers having learned that there is really little ground to fear that the South is no place for them to live in, or their children to be schooled in. A point worth mentioning is that the immigrants are for the most part not raw foreigners with no experience but Americans who tilled the soil in the West and know what they have to do to establish themselves in a new locality."
Closing with a reference to government in the south, Mr. Craighhead desired:
"In government there is every sign that the South always honest in its government. I learn the cost of what is the meaning of better government as a people the whatever they are, studying economics. They realize that they have considerable ground to cover and that to go quickly and successfully they must make good use of their resources."
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Nashville, Tenn.
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April 6
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Erwin Craighhead of Mobile, Ala., presented a paper on 'A Conference for Education in the South in Relation to Civic and Economic Advancement in the South' at the Conference for Education in the South. He reviewed pre-Civil War conditions with limited educational facilities, poor rural communication, and patronage of private schools. He discussed a new era of educational, agricultural, and industrial development due to changed conditions, new spirit, economic and immigration movements, with immigrants being experienced Americans from the West. He closed referencing honest government in the South, learning the cost and meaning of better government, studying economics, and making good use of resources.