The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-28
Brought Thanks from Many
Grateful CoIored People
Who Have Profited by
Southland College in Arkan-
SaS.
FRIENDS THRILLED BY
HER ELOQUENT Delivery
Frank c. Stanley in Address
Says Anti-Saloon League
Is Doing More Good Than
the Prohibition Party.

The thanks of thousands of CRATE
ful black people of the South were
brought To the Indiana Yearly Meet,
ing of Friends yesterday in most
eloquent manner by Lillian Jones, an
eighteen year old colored girl who
is now a student in Southland Col
lege, an institution maintained for
poor negro children by the Friends
at Helena, Arkansas. Her slender
form bending with each expression,
and speaking off hand and with great
est fervor. the negro girl, who left
the cotton fields to enter the Friends
college moved the assemblage of oy
been enthused before.
The effect of the girls words were
made manifest when the attention of
the meeting was called to a piece
of repair work which should be done
at the college, Immediately. at a cost
of 5000. Collection baskets were
passed and 1924 was raised for the
Improvement. Miss Jones gave the
Friends greater credit for education
South, than any other denomination.
She said that Southland College was
doing unmeasured good. and growing
with great strides. The attendance
is now 225 while the year preceding
it was 165. Miss Jones owing to
her rare gifts as speaker after COM
pleting her college course will go
among her people as an educator.
Owing to the presence of Miss Jones
at the Yearly Meeting the Friends
will do more for Southland College
during the coming year than ever be-
fore
William Macy. Lewisville, Ind.
Barclay p Hill. Fairmount. Ind. and
Lizzie p. Hill, Carthage, Ind, were
appointed to fill vacancies on the
board of managers of Southland Col
lege.
Attention to Temperance.
A good part of yesterday after
moons session was taken up with the
temperance work being carried on by
the Friends. The report on temper
ance should that two members Of
the church used liquor as beverage.
thirty eight used tobacco and two
were engaged in business where they
sold tobacco. Frank c. Stanley. del
egate from the Indiana Yearly Meet
ing to the sessions of the National
Anti-Saloon League addressed the
meeting on the work of that organiza-
ticn. Mr.. Stanley helped organize
the Prohibition Party in 1871 and
for ten years worked with the party.
He expressed himself to the meeting
as believing that the Prohibition par
ty was no nearer the solution of the
saloon evil than when it started in
The speaker said that the Anti-Sa-
loon League. pledged to no party
would completely annihilate the sa-
Ions as this country, If the church
would give it earnest support.
Mary sibbits Spoke.
Mary Sibbits, of Kansas made a
stirring address in which she accus-
ed the liquor interests of the country
of having hurried the United States
into the late war with Spain in or
der that they might have new ports
to which to send their products A
telegram was received from Edwin c.
Dinwiddle who is working in Okla
homa to bring about legislative pro-
of the liquor traffic in that
territory. Dinwiddle asked for $500
from the Friends 10 assist him in his
work The matter will be taken UP
by the representative body.
The report of the committee on
Home Mission work covering the &C.