The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-20
WORKERS CONFERENCE
THxRxngNTE ANNUAL MEET
 IN0 AT TusKNGEE.
Teachers and Preachers Tell of Their
 Methods and Aims in the Up- Y building of the Negro

rum of the Carnegie Library at Profss. I-sor Washington's School, at l0:s0 yester. day morning. An unusual large rumbez of teachers. ministers and farmers re. mainea over from the day before The Scriptures were read by Rev. pr. c. F. Meserve. President of Shaw University Raleigh N. C.; prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Gulley of Selma. Ala. Booker T. Washington presided and gave a briel account of the origin and purpose of the Workers Conference. The general topic Tor discussion was, ''Neighborhood Work" l. What are the schools doing7 For Home. For Church. For School, For Business; 2. What ought they to do? In 9pr schools To Keep in. Touch with work more effective.
 W. w Jones of Huntsville, Ala. gave an Interesting statement in regard 10 matters in his home
 Dr. Sale of the Atlanta Baptist College opened the subjsct in regard to the gen. erai topic, Neighborhood Work .f have always contended that the schools must do all within their power to help the masses of the people. We had a con ference at our school in regard to thls matter, last yean. and the effect, as shown by the testimony of many, was most marked. We are to have another confer ence next year." He referred interesting iy to the work of Joanna P. Moore in her ''Fireside Schools" She publishes a It, tie paper that soes into more than so,o0o homes, every month, and she receives more than 5000 letters every month. from these homes.
 Professor Johnson of the Shaw Univer- sity Law School and author of a history of the negro people in America, which is used as q text-book in colored schools, said: we must not consider the public school system is the end of education, but that it should be followed up by traln- ing in the boarding school. know of no community where a boarding school has been established and conducted by a teacher of good judgment that has not won the sympathy and support of the white people of that community"
 Rev. Dr. Johnson of the Phelps Hale Bible Training School. told of 6 high school for ministers. numbering twenty six members, all mai with churches, some of whom come as far as ten miles to at ous and show a good deal of originality. Some of them work hard at farming dur ing the day. It is probable that more of the ministers of Macon County work in connection with their churches than in any other county. Dr. Penney said, ''The members of the day classes go out every week to do missionary work They teach in Sunday school. preach and visit from house to house, and in the jaiis. They made weekly reports on this work"
 N. p. Henry or Conecuh County said: -When went to Conecuh County found the people in poor school houses and homes. I at once urged that they must Improve their school houses and homes. I have been there but a little over, a. year and We have good Bchool house and there are now four new houses going faT afN al Tny,x rr,,k bard. When went there they closed their Sunday school in Ougust, but now, in both churches, they run their schools the whole year.
 Rev. D. Moses. from Blaikely. Ga., said, T believe every teacher and preacher ought to do something toward building up homes and churches. I preach to three churches and run a farm from which raise 100 bales of cotton year. The Improvement of church and home is my constant theme. own the land on which raise my cotton and run public gin. ~
 James A. Snead of Uniontown, Ala, said, T have been engaged thirteen years in teaching. I live in Uniontown one of the most aristocratic towns of the South with reference to white and colored. They did not understand, at first, how Q graduate could work. have done all could in my school and blacksmith shop to help the people. I teach in their Sunday schools and, on holidays, 90 out into the country to help the people there. try to help the colored business men. We take the little children into a room and wash them and try to make them happier. Often they are without fire at home and we give them coal to carry home. Mir. Cramford of Magnolia, Miss, said, ''In eighty-eight days I raised Se,76S from colored people alone, for school purposes. In the same time raised SS.55o from the white people. Most of this money came from farmers. We have land and build ings valued at over &12,000. We have 21S students, s5 bording students. We have two Tuskegee students as teachers. The reading of the ''Story of my Life and Work" by Mir. Washington influenced me to start my school"
 J. N. Williamson, Shelby, Miss, said, ''We bought forty acres of land in con- nection with our school and sold 1t out in lots. In this way we were able to build Q good school house and to put many colcred families into homes of their own"
 Miss Young of Plaine College Augusta, Ga, a school supported by the Metho- dist Church, said, ''Some Southern ladies became interested in the college and | built, for it, two frame buildings and fur ! nished them nicely. The president of the
 school and several of the teachers are Southern people"
 | Bishop Lane of the Colored Methodist Church, said: ''If we would all bury the hatchet and come together 1t would be | wholly to the glory of God"
 Rev. Mir. Snedecor. principal of the | Colored Seminary at Tuscaloosa, Ala. | said: "The school is supported by South
 ern people. It Is small but it stands for
 the heart and motive that are behind it
 I hope the people will support it more
 generously. I am in the work to stay | We have 45 acres of land and buildings
 60 to % students. It is a Bible training
 school One man comes seven miles eV'
 cry morning on horseback to attend thu
 school. We have Methodist and Baptis
 students, our advanced class has Pres
 byterians, 3 Baptists and Methodists.
 MT. West of Tyler, Texas. President O.
 Texas College, said: 'We have 101 acre.
 of land which we use as a truck farm
 We support teachers from the incom'
 of the school. We carry on work amont
 the young people outside the school anC
 also have a mothers meeting. propos'
 to call together the teachers, preachers
 and farmers in our vicinity and see wha
 we can do to help them. I have raise'
 about $4OO from the white people,"
 Mir. Bray, President of Lane College
 Jackson, Tenn, said: There is dange
 that the school may get away from tn
 masses and lose sympathy with them.
 am sending out the students of Lane int
 the country to help in the work of tn