The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-15
GIELOW SPEAKS
APPEALS FOR WHITE BOYS AisD
 GIRLS OF ALABAMA.
Addressed 200 Montgomery Women In Behalf of the Industrial Educa- tion of Illiterate Mountain
 Children.

"Do you realize that education and intelligence count for something whetn- realize that in ten years there will not be negro boy or girl in this coun- try who cannot read and write. and do you realize that just ,tl,s.re ths reverse VIII
 Mrs. Martha Gielow, President Gen eral of the Southern Industrial Asso- citation. of New York, spoke those words years sympathy with the great work, with magnetism of personality ana charm of manner that touched the Montgomery's women who think. wo- men who stand for something and wo- men who are noted for accomplishing things which they undertake.
 Mrs sGieiow came to Montgomery to talk to the women of this great edu- cational movement to which she has and to which she has consecrated her life, her talents and her means She spoke for more than an hour yester- day afternoon at the s Giras Higa na higher" education of which we hear so much, she said. but for the simple rudiments of an industrial education who. by their unfortunate environ ment are denied the privileges of edu- cation that is being showered on the negroes of the South.
 Hers was a plea for the children of the inaccessible mountainous districts of the South. For the wiping out or the stigma of illiterncy that predomi- land.
 She is an inspiring speaker. ana even the heart of an audience. her own in- terest and enthusiasm would infuse an element of charm with a tendency s9 inspire that would be irresistible. That the need of activity. in this cause IS imperative, she convinced her hearers. and that to the women of the south as set ie forth he plainly. % The women whom. she said, had never been found want ing all that stood for good and true and and annes,eH n0nls in for 5ne heio iou'h'ah ~
 She gave statistics showing the ap- paliing percentage of illiteracy. exist meeuntainons ine amoo ns districts of the South Of Alabama she said that fourteen per cent of the native born white children citation, of which she is the President General, proposes to raise money to be able to put within the reach of these children of the mountains .niei dne meIns adUl 0l cation, one that will bring some en- iightment into their lives. some com fort into their homes; hon .nv ena .cnoo,s that are provided the negroes of the South and of the rapid advancement that the negro is making along the
  harrison she drew a picture of the ut ter and entire lack of any semblance of schools in many portions of the South for the whites. At the North. she said she found great sympathy for the illiterats whites ss,.a but sreater Isste She has been promised. however. by wealthy philanthropic men of the North. that if the people of the South would take this matter up and get started some sort of schools In these remote districts that there would be strength of this promise she and her co-workers are now making a final er- fort. ,,., ., Alabama, she said. there were hun dreds of children who could neither a representative of an Alabama news paper eoing into rural district solic- jting subscribers and not being, able 10 secure any because of the fact that so few of the white people could read. but when he came to the negroes they subscribed. They went down Into their pockets eagerly for the fifty cents with which to pay for the paper. because
 Mrs. Gieiow said the educational and it's people must be up and doing.
 we want to carry fire-side indus tries into their districts she said. eve don't want to bring those young people to town--Cod forbid"
 She said that she believed the prob- organizations will have taken the mat ter up and now that the members of fhe Tinted Daughters of the Confeder- acy have finished building monuments 10 their revered dead, she begs that they begin this monument to the liv- Iii education