The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-13
SCHOOLING IN SOUTH
THE EXTENSION OF EDUCATION
 URGED AT MASS MEETING.
One Million Dollars to Be Asked for to Supplement the Gift of John
 D. RockefelIer-Addres -s>t - of Southernsrs.

New York Times,
 President William. H. Baldwin, Jr,,. of the General Education Board announced at a largely attended mass meeting in Carnegie Hall last evening that within a short time, an appeal would be made to the country for funds to. supplement the gift of $l.OOO,00O of John D.. Rockefeller last spring for carrying on tho work of the Board. t.,
 The $1OO.OOo a year for ten years per- mitted by this gift" MT. Baldwin de- clared, lis but a drop in the bucket The trustees of this fund believe that every dollar expended in education in the South is good investment and they are going to ask the people of this whole vountry to make such an investment. We have provided a business organization com posed of men every one of whose names is a household word-mep whom you can trust-who are to manage this money in the best possible way. and 1t Is to this Board that we are going to ask the public to intrust funds for this great purpose"
 The mass meeting at which this an- nouncemept was made was under the aus pices of the Armstrong Association, and was In the general interest of Southern education. President Robert c. Ogden of the Southern Education Board occupied c seat on the platform. and there were
 
 ly with educational movements. Morris K. Jesup presided oveS the assemblage, and the speakers were Charles W. Dab ney, President of the University of Ten nessee; c. D. McIVer, President of the North Carolina State Normal and Indus trial School: William H, Baldwin, IT,. and President F. A. Alderman of Tulane University.
 William Jay schiefeiin, President of Aba ATuf lad ha meeting to order, and Bishop Doane of Albany introduced MT. Jesup as the Chairman of the evening. MT. Jesup therelIpon introduced Er. Dabney who spoke, in part, as follows:
 First ask you. who are the people about whose education we are speaking? In 1900 these States south of the Potomac contained in round numbers. 16,AOO,OOO people l0,tO0 900 of them white and 6000,- GOO black. In these States there are ssS1,- GOO white and 242O.OOO colored children Of school age-a total of 64l1.00
 'HThe important question Is, what Is the South doing for these children? In 1900 only 60 per cent of them were enrolled in the schools, over 25O0,00O of them being out of school. Tn that year the average daily attendance was only 70 per cent of those enrolled. Only 2 per cent are ac- tualIv at school. One-haif of the negroes get no schooling whatever. One. white child in five is left wholly illiterate. Care full analysis of the reports of State Su- perintendents, showing the. attendance by grades, indicates that the average child, whites and blacks together, who attends school at all. stops. with the third grade. In North Carolina the average citizen gets only 26. years, in South Carolina 25 years, in Alabama "A years of schooling, both private and public. In the whole South the average citizen gets only three gears of schooling of all kinds h ais en- VAVa IlHas end what schoolInE-H H ssl a-7-