The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
A MEETING TONIGHT
rHELANTHRoPIC PEOPLE TO DIS-
 CUss MAYNARD YOUTHS.
suake Thomas Will Preside at Coura Street Church Over Conference as to FurtherinG BeRevo-
 lent Work.

Tn the interest of the Juvenile Com xnittee, of which Crawford Jackson of Atlanta is chairman. a mass meeting will be held at the Court Street Metho- dist Church at 7:30 o'clock tonight The public is invited to attend and at least three of Montgomery's congregations, the Court Street Methodist, the Dexter Avenue Methodist and the First Bap- tist, will join in the meeting.
 The purpose of the meeting will be me. discussion of plans for philan- xhropfc work among the children of the South. Crawford Jackson, one of the Foremost men in the South in this line of work, reached Montgomery Friday night from Atlanta and will address the meeting tonight.
 We are now reaching out for an In 4erstate Juvenile Protectory,p said Mir. Jackson yesterday "the purpose to be the correction and proper training of wayward children of the Souths and more especially of delinquent and de- pendent children who have not yet been brought before the courts, but who are wayward and are likely to violate tho laws and will reach the criminal stage unless they are reformed. We are continually receiving communications from all over the South in behalf of these sort of children. Each Sta.e may have it's reformatory, but it cannot begin to take care of all the children who need it's help"
 The Interstate Juvenile Protectory proposes to have a Southern philarN thropic institution in the South, where children of all sexes and races can be taken but the races and sexes will be have ten cottages. costing about $50 1000 each. thus making total of $500, 900, which 1t will be necessary to raise for the Institution. of the total number of thirteen trustees, there will be two from Alabama and a proportionate number from other Southern States
 Mir. Jackson is a minister, but he has spent q large part of his life in juvenile philanthropic work. His first success was gained when he secured a. juvenile court for the city of Atlanta, and then came the establishment of a State reformatory In Georgia. Now, he wishes to crown his successes by the establishment of a general school for the entire South.
 It may seem that the idea is to have the protectory located in Georgia, but such is not the case" said Mir. Jack son. that is matter purely for the trustees to decide upon. The institu- tion must, of course, be centrally To- cated. It could not be located in Flor Ida or South Carolina, but would have 10 be accessible to all of the Southern children Again, in its location, the trustees might be governed by offers of philanthropic people, for instance, such as an offer of land for the site.
 .sOur plan is to begin work on a child before he has become criminal and fo make a good citizen of him. We would separate the children of differ snt ages and we would also provide a means whereby poor children could earn their way through the schools :"
 The Interstate Juvenile Committee was organized a few months ago and. at a conference held in Washington. ID. C., during last December plans were outlined for the establishment of a pro- tectory in the South. Judge W. R. Hammond. Crawford Jackson and Dr. J. L. Mann were elected trustees and were authorized to consult the Cover rors, Senators and other prominent people of the various Southern States in determining the ten additional trus- tees to be added
 In the plans as adopted the following appears: