The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-26

district; that emphasis be laid upon the importance of gathering complete statistics; that the counties be urged to press the financial end of their work; that an official visiting day be adopt ed. the term of the president limited to one year and a sum of at least $6.000 be raised for the work of the Associ- ation.A
 Executive Committee Reports. :.
 The report of the Executives Com- mittee in full follows:
 ITO the Alabama Sunday School Asso-
 citation in Convention assembled:
 This Committee would most respect Its work done during the year:
 Tt gives us pleasure to report that the work has made real progress dui . ing the year. When the State Con- vention met at Birmingham last year, hfty-two of our counties were organ ixed. Since that time we have organ ized the counties of Monroe, Marenyo, BIount. Marshall. Winston and Hous- ton. leaving only nine counties unor- ganized. The county of Choctaw will be organized May 12-13. We are grat- fled that material progress has been made in the matter of thorough organ- ization.
 At our last convention we had thir- teen banner counties, to wit: Lauder dolt, IiHicetoHt, nduisOH, LdWTtuCe, Etowah,, Cainoun. Talladega, Bibb. Dal las, Sumter, Clarke, Pike and Cham bers. Since the convention the coun- ties of Wilcox. Bullock, Chiffon, Coosa. Autauga, St. Clair, Colbert and Nor gan have become banner counties, and we expect the reports to be made at the convention will show several more. We regret very much to state that the counties of Lawrence, Clarke, Dallas and Etowah have failed to hold one or more of their district conventions and will lose their places on the list of banner counties. It Ia gratifying, however, to know that there is a ma terial increase of counties Cn this, our roll of honor.
 The organizea counties are divided into 299 districts and about 65 per cent. of these are organized.
 We have been holding up before our County Associations the idea that | the county ought to nelp every school l in tho county every year, and that 1t is reasonable to expect them to do so. Several counties have almost come up to this standard. Illustration of Districts. Two 2ears ago in the county of Dal- | las thirty-six of the thirty-eight schools in the county were represent | ed either in the County Convention or | District Conventions.
 ''The county of Chiffon which is to be added to our list of Banner Counties ! this year Is an illustration of what can be done and what has been done. We certainly congratulate the officers | of that county upon the splendid work | within the past year. The reports of | four of their District Conventions l showed that of thirty-seven Sunday schools thirty-ive of them were rep | resented at the District Convention | Two Districts in Coosa county were
 also illustrations of good work. The l Northwest District reported that thir- l teen out of fourteen were represented at their District Convention and the l Northeast District reported that eight l out of nine had been touched by the | work of the District Associations dur ing the year.
 "Another way by which every school in the District can be helped is by the District President visiting every school
 in his District. It is made the duty
 of the District President to visit every school in his District, and if he will | discharge his duty. he can do a grea, | deal to inspire the workers and help | the schools to do better work third | plan by which every school can be l helped Is what is known as Ohicial
 Visiting Day This matter will be | discussed in the Convention and we | trust that a number of our counties
 will adopt this plan and work it.
 'The poorest and weakest schools in
 our counties need help and the strong
 schools must come into touch with
 them for the purpose of helping then
 solve the problems by which they ags
 confronted.
 Special mention should be made oi
 the work in the county of Jefferson
 This is the largest county In the State
 It is divided into nineteen districts. and while if does not appear on the Roll oi
 Honor as banner county. yet more
 work has been done in Jefferson than
 in any other county of the State. Al
 their County Convention last fall the
 reports showed that twenty-five Dis
 trict Conventions and twenty Insti-
 tutes. making forty-five in all had
 been held in that county within twelve
 months. We certainly congratulate
 Mir. R. F. Lewis. the President, and his | co-workers upon their efficient work
 done in Jefferson county.