The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-21

cone of them the, son of sancti1cd preacher in Birmingham, the other was l the son of Baptist preacher of the same place, and the third was the son of Msthodist preacher, if remember correctly, at Gadsden." he replied. 1n~- calling attention to the import ance of the work which the negro wo- men have begun, Superintendent Tyr rell made this striking remark We cannot build race by building always at the top. if at the same time we are going to let the bottom drop out. From other reports 1t appeared . similar movement had begun in other, parts of the country. Rev w, c.
 Johnson, president of the Negro BAp- tlst Convention of Georgia. described the reformatory that had been started by the negroes of Georgia. They have purchased $50 acres of land at Macon. Ga, and are erecting $io.ooo building. the money for which has already been paid in exceot about s2.o0o. The ne- | gro Baptist churches of Georgia raise
 about s4,000 a year to maintain this in- stitution.
 Reports were made by nearly ail the large schools represented at the confer- ence in regard to the kind and char
 acter of the work that the schools
 were doing outside the class rooms to Improve the material condition of the people In the communities surrounding them.
 President l.. J Rowan. of Aleorn
 Agricultural and Mechanical College at
 Alcorn. Miss, said that his college was
 In the center of a rich district of large plantations and they had been able to
 dc very little thus far with the tenant
 farmers on the plantations. At the
 present times number of the planters | ufM ls. fn&A Gk !.
 was an opportunity for negroes to buy
 the land and Che believed that in the future something could be done to en- courage and improve this class of peo- pie and in time build tfp prosperous
 community in the neighborhood of the school. :, Principal w. T. Edwards. Of Snow Hill Institute. who is conducting a school on the plantation on which he was born. said that when he first went l into the community the negroes did | not own twenty acres of land. Now they own 5000 acres of land. This
 has mainly been the work of the, Black
 Belt Improvement Society, organized by the school. This society has ten de- | grees. TO take the first degree a mar, had to have at least the desire to own | something. That was the lowest con- | dttion upon which he cauld be admitted l To talka the second degree he had to
 own three chickens and a pig. The
 fourth degree requires that he should have at least an acre of land of his
 own. The fifth degree required that
 he should own twenty acres, the sixth,
 forty. and so on up to the tenth de- | gree.
 Mrs. s. T. Pollard, of Selma. de- | scribed the work of the women cons nected with Selma University to i'm.
 prove the condition of the women and l to promote the cause of temperances She said the women had gone down to the town on Saturdays and got hold
 of the men as they were going in and out of the saloons and they had put
 white rfbbonA on tDS men in one day.
 In this work they had received the en-
 conrageFnent of the Mayer of the town
 and of others of the prominent white people.
 President Meserve of Shaw Univsr-
 sity. Raleigh, N. C.. said they had pror
 hibition in Raleigh. and that the evils of Saturday haif-hoIiday had been largely done away with.
 Fl. A. Hunt. of the Industrial School
 ct Fort Valley, Ga., described the ag- ricuitura1 school On wheels which cons sisted of q train sent out from Athens. Ga. with all the equipment of an ag. ricultural school. to the farmers of the I State This school was intended pri- martly for white farmers. but he
 found the people who were in charge ! of 1t were willing that the students of
 the Fort Valley school should visit l the exhibit and hear the lectures.
 Several teachers connected directly 1 or indirectly with the Tuslkegee fnsti- | ute. described the work which the Tn- stitute has been doing in the flown and
 in the country districts for negroes
 .Cs J. Galloway, a real estate dealer
 who runs a country paper for the ne- groes. told of his work for the benent of the negro schools.
 During the past two years, with the encouragement which 1t was possible to give the negro farmers, they have
 erected twenty-two school houses in the
 county at an average cost of SlOO.
 The negroes have themselves raised during that time about sS,000 for the
 purpose of erecting these schools and
 extending the school terms to eight
 and nine months.
 Tt is proposed to extend this work, through the agency of the Jeanes Fund, to-every part of the South. Prof. James
 1T. billiard. formerly of Tulane pniver- sity, New Orleans has charge of the
 distribution of this money.
 T, M. Campbeli,i graduate of the
 Agricultural School at Tuskegee, who has been working in Macon County du- ring the. past year In charge of the
 demonstration work of the Agricultu- Tal OepAEL aL w gave
 an account of his work.
 Other teachers described the work
 that is being done in the village of Tus-
 kegee where classes are taught in five
 different trades. including that of plas-
 tering. brick-laying. carpentering and
 others. An afternoon cooking class
 has been started for the instruction of
 the servants employed in the homes of
 towns people,
 A similar report covering much the
 same field of work was made by w. T.
 B. Williams of Hampton.
 Principal Washington mentioned as
 one important work which Hampton