W. H. N.
University of Va.
Editorials.
| G. N. RAPER, Columbian, | Editors. |
| M. C. THOMAS, Hesperian, |
It has been insinuated by those who have a mistaken idea about The Archive that our Professor of English is a member of the Editorial Staff. A statement of fact will do no injury to any one. The Archive is published by the two Literary Societies and edited by different members taken from these societies. Furthermore, each staff of editors is responsible for whatever may appear in their department. Our Professor of English is only Censor, and according to the true acceptation of this term, his sole duty is to decide whether a composition shall be admitted to The Archive’s columns, just as England at one time had a censor to examine every manuscript before it could go to press. Please remember that deciding whether an article shall be published is not writing that article.
A month or so ago Prof. W. F. Tillett, of Vanderbilt University, through the columns of the Christian Advocate, suggested that a conference of Southern Methodist educators be held at Nashville in the spring. The Professor’s suggestion has met with hearty approval from all of the most prominent Methodist educators throughout the South. This is a step in the right direction. No church can expect to prosper that neglects educational work. Such a conference is well calculated to arouse enthusiasm among the various educators who attend, and give an impetus to the cause of higher education throughout the bounds of the Southern Methodist Church. It is to be hoped that plans will be devised the good effects of which will be felt for years to come. So long as the Southern Methodist Church fosters her educational institutions, so long does she foster a powerful element of success. Prof. Tillett’s article has the right ring, and deserves a careful perusal on the part of Southern Methodists.
This is an era of invectives against the capitalist, an age in which Capital and Labor are fighting their greatest battle. The Communists of France, the Socialists and infidels of Germany, the Agnostics of England and the Anarchists of America are agitating in the beer saloon and around the billiard table one of the greatest reformations, as they term it, the world has yet witnessed. They hate the capitalist, and at the very same time are making capitalists out of the rumsellers. The great question of to-day is to solve the problem of Capital versus Labor. It is a sad fact that the restless mass of laborers instead of benefiting themselves by their agitation are giving power to the capitalist every day of their lives by their dissipation. But more than this, the iniquity of the fathers will descend upon their ignorant children, and degraded labor will be the result.