The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-23
An Appeal to Help Those Who Will Help
 Themselves.
A School That is Doing Great Work for the Indigent Will > Ask Alabamians to Aid
 So that Their Influence
 May Be Felt Abroad.
N A Meeting to Re Held Next Saturday in Behalf of the South
 ern Industrial
 Institute.

There is to be a meeting in this city next Saturday in the rooms of the Com mercial and Industrial Association Tn the interest of education and the train ing of the hands and minds of our girls and boys who are not able to pay for an education but are willing to work for it.
 Congressman Wiley is to preside over the meeting and many leading citizens have signified their purpose to attend on that occasion.
 The School.
 The only school in Alabama where a white girl or boy can work for an education Is at Camp Hill. This most excellent institution was organized by Dr. Lyman Ward, September, 1898. when it's doors were opened in a mod est cabin by the roadside. A charter was issued by the Legislature of 1901 for "the establishment organization and maintenance of an institution Of learning of high grade, for the educa- ton of youth, in industrial and manual training, in all the useful industries. in the mechanics arts; also to give training in literature, science and arts" The school has been running success fully and is now the close of its sev- enth year, which has been successful beyond the most sanguine expectations of its friends and promoters.
 The Trustees.
 The Board of Trustees Is composed of some of the leading men of that community and from all parts of the country many of whom have an abid- ing faith in the school at present and look to the future for the full develop ment and carrying out of its purposes by the proper aid and encouragement of the people of Alabama. The Board is composed of the following:
 Dr. Lyman Ward. president; H. c. Wooddy, treasurer; L. A. Trimble. T. Langley, T. R. s. Henderson, J. E.. Heard. all of Camp Hill; Rev. R. c. Bedford, secretary. Beloit, Wis; Her bert Welsh. Philadelphia, Pa; Judge c. W. Buckley, Of Montgomery, Ala. {; pr. 0. V. Langley, Florala, Ala; w. M. Trimble, Presley. Ala; R. J. Haight, Chicago, H.; Rev. S. H Robin. Boston, Mass: M. M. Teague, MountvilIe, S. C., all and each of whom are earnestly and enthusiastically enlisted in the success of the school and who cordially and most heartily endorse its purposes and commend Its work to the young men and young women of Alabama who desire an education of the head and hand at the same time and are willing ito labor for 1t.
 The faculty is made up of capable
 
 heartily interested in the great work they have in hand.
 Its Purposes.
 The purposes of the school is to help deserving young men and women to help themselves. The school aims to do just two things-provide a course of study and provide way for any boy or girl to pursue such course of study. This will give the student sefreliance Ix,k ole to school of technology. nor is 1t a school of liberal arts, as we use these terms. It is a school that undertakes to make it possible for earnest, industrious youth 10 win an education and learn some useful trade. with the outlay of but little money. The most that is nec- essary Is the willing heart and obedi- ent hand. Too many. far too many, of our youth are denied the privilege of ever the elements of an English educa- tion for the want of means. Without giving money directly to any student