The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-19
TALKED ON EDUCATION
BISHOP CHANDLER SPEAKS AT
 MARION.
He Deplores the Illiteracy of Ala bama and Urges That Efforts to Eradicate it Be Taken
 At Once,

Marion. July S-(SpeciaD-Blshop Cand- Ter of Atlanta is now presiding over the Greensboro Conference in session in Ma rion.
 The following visitors are attending the meetings:
 pr. J. A. Frazer, Dr. A. L. Andrews of Montgomery, Dr. A. J. Lamar of Mobile, pr. J. H. Mccoy. editor of The Alabama Christian Advocate, Birmingham.
 Friday was consumed in the main in hearing reports from the various charges.
 Rev. T. H. Jones, agent for the Orphans Home at Summerfield, made a strong ap- peal in behalf of the Orphanage and re- ceived cash subscription of about $50.
 Reports were read by the Committee on Sunday Schools and Epworth Leagues which showed the condition throughout this district to be improving,
 Dr. A. J. Lamar delivered a very able address on the subject of an endowment for the Southern University at Greens boro and for the Alabama Conference Fe- male College at Tuskegee. The plan is to raise $100,OOO for these schools, notes ta- ken made payable in thirty days after the committee has secured promises to the amount of $100,00O. The sum Is grow ing rapidly and quite a nice subscription was raised here.
 Bishop Candler preached an able ser mon Friday morning and Friday evening delivered an address on the subject of ed ucation. His statistics on Southern Schools created no little comment. This people, he said, are forced to make great CT strides for higher education. The ne- groes are in advance of the whites in ed- ucational advantages resulting from en- dowments at the hands of Northern phi lanthropists. Clark's school in his home, Atlanta, he said, has a greater endow- ment than all of the colleges in Georgia combined. Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee has an endowment of H, ,100,- . GOO more than that of all other schools in Alabama combined. Alabama especially Is behind in the way of education She is lead by even Florida and Mississippi and may possibly be a little in advance of Louisiana. These conditions exist in the face of the fact that with her metallic fields in the north, her luxurious farms in Central Alabama, and her ports at Pensacola and Mobile which will have no equal when the isthpian canal is com pleted.
 In fact Alabama leads every State in the Union in natural advantages and her citizens are forced to improve her educa- tional advantages to protect themselves and their property with the rapid ad- vancement already begun to develop her resources. The need of more and better teachers is felt throughout the South The per cent is small that seek an edu- cation with the purpose of teaching, when 1t Is a fact that with the negro 1t Is his leading ambition.
 The Bishop made a striking point for sectarian schools, and showed that they are important in that the States cannot and do not and should not lay the proper stress on men and mothers pertaining to the different religious denominations The State schools do not teach religion, and therefore are dependent upon the secta- rian schools for the medication of relig- ious principles which all acknowledge Is so essential to good government.
 He paid a high tribute to the school advantages in the Greensboro district. Few sections, he said, enjoy such bless ings. In this district are the Southern University, the Marion Military Institute, the Judson Institute, the Marion Female Seminary, the Normal School at Living ton and a number of high schools whose curriculums rank high. But few, if any sections in the South have similar ad- vantages. and what this district enjoys should be enjoyed by the other districts, and especially should an effort warm and strong be put forward to improve and fos- ter our colleges, many of which are in ferior in some respects to the high schools of Massachusetts. which has a school fund of $15 for every man, woman and child in that State.
 Do you know 1t Is fact" exclaimed the Bishop, that your reports for the past session shows a greater number of negroes in your Alabama colleges than whites? This is a fact. It is a fact also that IS per cent of your population over the age of 10 years cannot read and write"
 The address was one of the ablesA and most opportune that has been delivered in this city in years, and was thoroughly ap- preciated.