The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-23

gives up homes in the school to people Of the city for meetings and missionary through which the students, even while in school, have saved money and bought property. He spoke of stu dents coming. to the school. without their credit in the savings bank.
 He spoke of encouragement he had received from Southern white men be- cause of the helpfulness of the school In the life of the people:
 Prof. N. F. Henry. Of China, Ala, told of his house to house visitation and the opening of debating societies for the young people and also the giv- ing of an oc~nsional lunch.
 Prof. Reddick, of Americus, Ga, said he had succeeded in interesting the different parts of the city and country around about him by taking a teacher as far as possible from every separate
 pr. Nesevve. President of Shaw University Raleigh, N. C., thought the larger and better equipped school It's services for the masses of the peo- plea, Among whom it Is located. He told of the effect of the work of the the poor, especially of the members of the senior class who are allowed to practice medicine during the senior year. under the direction of their teach Prof. Reid, of Knox Academy. Selma said they reached the parents ana helped them largely through their stu- dehts and by means of small country I sc hooIs they have established.
 | Mir. C. R. Throne, of Calhoun. Ala,
 colored school. said they were able | the mothers meeting Through. these | they are able to improve the homes. The school also reaches the people
 once every year, the guests of the school for two days. Dr. Lemon, or the same school. told how they had won
 sne Spatay tSaPp to buy 'fs homeS Opo over ssSo acres of land have been sold to eighty three people in the last few years. rms
 IS all pss1qt lSE s on T Ali
 have windows and some are being painted.
 of Macon county. He made an inter | esting statement as to the dimculties
 in the way of the public school teacher.
 teaching So many grades in one room. l The question of the Public schools came next after the question of the in- fiuence of the school upon its surround
 Prof. Hill of Chiffon county said | many schools In his county were not | opened for want of teachers
 \ ties of Alabama and other Southern | states and it seemed quite evident from II the reports that outside Of the cities l the public schools are In a very bad | condition. There are but few school I houses and the amount of money re, ceived from the county is very smaii and year by year seems to grow small
 The following declarations were ad. opted as expressing the sentiments oi
 those present in regard to matters The Workerss Conference at Tuske. gee Institute notes the steady improve, ments in the quality and number ane
 distribution of the schools ana SnurGn' ic.a
 efficiency of the black laborer, the farm
 CT, the merchant; in the scope and char
 acter and success of many negro co | operative enterprises in untried fields in the emergence of men and WomeT of unusual qualities of leadership; II the widespread realization by the peo
 pie of the nature of their diff1cultie
 Snd of the way out; and above all II
 the essential moral soundness of oul toiling masses. Moreover, the Confer
 ence. is gratihed to hnd that on m and blacks grow more reasonable da! by day as our efforts become effective
 and as the white people come into per . sonal contact with black men and wo . men of intelligence and probity ant | efficiency, and the negro people WILL more and more white men and womei , in whose hearts and works SFe charit! Since the first session of the Tuske gee Negro Conference fourteen year ago, the increase in the number of ne gro land owners has been encourag ling. Many of our delegates come fror Georgia where there are figures t show that the assessed value of negr
 property has advanced from less tha fifteen millions of dollars in 1892, t . more than eighteen millions in 19O4 Lin Louisiana the assessed value of ne
 gro property was ten millions in 19O: and in North Carolina over fourtee
 millions. The aggregate value of ne , gro farm property in the United State at the last census was 230 millions 0 , dollars. But, 1t is still true that W , are very largely floating laborers an renters instead of owners. And hence every teacher and every preache should make it their business to con f vince their communities that 1t is es f sential to the best progress of us a f for the people to own the houses i which they live and the land whic a they till.
 1 poor schools are so common especial 6 Iiy in the country districts and sma = towns. If our preachers would inter a est themselves good deal more r the actual struggles of our people Q this world, the people would be ia s more interested to make poor churche h good. Then, too, both churches an d schools are gravely injured by tn e ridiculous notion that public school