The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-29
Industrial Loan Association,

4nQnSEf12t Loan ASSOCIATION,
attention through your excellent paper
/ % a circular of the citizens Of Claiborne +
county in regard to the above named +
Organization. This plan Of work was
inaaqurated by one Of the public-spirited +
( ladies of Claiborne and its objects can
not be better set forth than in the circular +
Itself.
/ PoRT GIBsoS, CLAIBORNE Co, Miss, : +
March, Z, 1855. +
4 10 the C6t.aets 9f Die Stzte If A7ss.ss;ppi:
I Wei the citizens Of Claiborne County, +
have formed an Association. known IS
/ the lEDCsrRIaL Loan ASSOCIATIONS, 70 .
which We beg leave to cali your attention
1 and urgently request YOU 10 form simi-
/ lar Associations in your several coun- /
/ ties.
/ OBJECTS OF INDUSTRIAL LOAN as
ISOLATION.
/ 1st 10 lend a helping had TO strug-
I Cling w0mdHhood and 70 encourage and f
/ assist her to obtain remauerative la
Dor.
/ 2nd. TO loan a sufficient sum Of
I money to two white girls Of our county +
annually, who ou q competitive eIami-
nation, shall prove themselves worthy +
and qualified to- enter the Industrial
/ Institute aud College for white girls at
/ Columbus, bliss, said sum 10 be paid +
/ back 10 the Association in five years by
/ the pupil receiving the same, without
interest
81. Toassist -aidpupils by means Of tie
. 1-H sr r-. &.
an education at said College as viii +
j qualify them TO earn an honorable
! support as teachers, bO0Skeepers,
| photographers, telegraphers, engravers,
| stenographcrs, and intend to iii the /
various positions now being open to
women.
/ 4Lh. Each member Of this .Associ- /
alton shall pay one dollar annually.
5th. Said Association shall be organ
lied as soon as fifty names shall be
signed to this paper.
Thus, for tie small sum of One
/ Dollar annually by co operation, we
viii be able 10 bring the Industrial
! Institute within the reach Of the poorest
/ girls of our State and make them help
tul and self supporting.
0. A. HASTINGS,
II. A. ABY,
MI Baldwin,
s. II. WHARTON,
JULIA G. LEVY.
If desired we will forward you a copy /
Of our Constitution and BY Laws.
1t Is difficult to conceive an easier way
/ to accomplish so much good. The (
small amount one dollar per annum,
{ & !, !. !
| a sufficient sum 70 place the benefits Of I
| the Industrial College within reach of q
large and well deserving class, who I
| without such help would not be able to
attend any high school or College 1t is
proven that a high school education
! increases the productive power of ii
! laborer one hundred per cent. If these
/ Associations we're organized in every
county, the good that might be accom-
/ plished is beyond all conception. Think /
of teachers one hundred per cent.
/ better, what an impetus would be given
our common schools! Think Of women
one hundred per cent. better, in all the
walks Of womanhOod.
/ The Industrial College, as 4 State
school, should be an object Of pride and
! interest to all classes OF our citizens. As
1 MethOdists, or Baptists, or members of
any other denomination, it is right for
/ US to uphold the schools of our churches; 4;
/ as graduates, it is our duty to work for
an honored Alma Mater, but as Missis-
/ sippiaus we can all unite with pardon
able pride to extend the usefulness Of
our State Female College.
/ The Yauderbiits, father and son, have +
/ linked their name to everlasting good I
/ by their princely donations to the cause
of education. We have no Nanderbilts
! in Mississippi, but we have public-spirit-
/ ed men and women. win not these or
ganize Industrial Loan Associations in I
every county? Nay, is there not in
/ every county some man or woman who
would endow scholarship in the Indus
/ trial College? What more enduring
memorial than this, could man pro-
/ vide for himself? A comparatively small /
sum would endow scholarship, and +
money invested in education, especially I
female education, yields eternal divi /
dends.
1t is the duty of every one-men and
women according to their ability-to
labor for the public good, and it is /
written "to him that knoweth to do [
good and doeth it not, to him it is sin" "
May all our people rise to the full meas
u
ter, and do what they can to promote /
this cause Of education.
The Industrial College is to be a I
practical school. 1t is TO be among
other things what our school-men have /
SO earnestly hoped for, first rate nor
NAL school The President of the Col /
lege is described as being "as near the +
perfect man as can be found" The in I
stitution thus commends itself to the |
people of the State, and by means of |
Industrial Loan Associations, and en- /
dowed scholarships, its benefits could be /
extended to the humblest hamlet in /
Mississippi. DR.. Mays, of Boston writes, |
as follows, on the subject of education /
IN the South:
''Too few, by far, Of the foremost
Young men of the South viii be per- /
suaded to serve for the scanty pay of
the school-master while the opening life
of industrial enterprise combines with
professional and public employment to
lure them away. But since 1866 whole
generation of as bright and fine spirited
young women as are found in any land
have grown up, thousands of whom are
earnestly looking for some honorable
means of livelihood, and other thousands
are asking how they can do their part
in the mighty upbuilding of the new
South. There are your teachers-the
best for the children-fit for any post
of authority or administration, if you
viii only give them fair chance at the
; table of knowledge and aid them to pre-
pare themselves to teach. Herein is an
arena more splendid than the old time
field of the cloth of gold,' where a
nobler than old time chivalry may step
sorth, in the rivalship of good Offices, to
crown these earnest, devoted maidens
and matrons with a finer wreath than
adoned the "queen of love and beauty,
even the garland that encircles the brow
, of the gracious mistress whom the little
children adore as beauty, love, and light
inearnate in one bewitcning form. do
: not see hoJU any ricb man IN the South can
! sleep o nights until he has gigen to group
Of these good girls The means Of tins serving
the State. The young man Of culture
and position who does not ego in to
! help the girls in this their time of need
l has denied the good old southern faith IN
ac0mea and Is "acorsc than an infdel.n
: The poorest moutain hamlet in Eastern
! Kentucky can raise the money, by some
. device, TO send the best young women of
y their region to Berea, that she may come
back and teach the children how to
excel themselves: so wonderfully has
: God provided the way for the uplifting
: of the lowliest through these vast areas,
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