Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-12
EDUCATION IN SOUTH.
Northern PhiIanthropists Have
Donated SAG, 100000.
ROCKEFELLER'S BIG FUND
Schools for Whites and Blacks Sup
ported by Donations.
PEABODY'S BIG BENEFACTIONS
Million Dollars Given by j. F.
slater-s2oo. 900 Subscribed
by Miss Jeanes.
ROCKEFELLER'S BIG FUND
PEABoDY's BIG BENEFACT1oNs
HY WILLIAM f.. CURTIS.

Written for be Star and the Cnfcaso RECORD
Herald.
Forty-six million dollars have been given
by northern philanthropists as A perma-
mont fund for the education of white and
black children of the south.
OF this sum John D. Rockefeller has
contributed s43.oN0,00: the late George
Peabody s2.N0O0O; the late John Fox
Slater. sl.1n.O00. and Miss Anna T.
Jeanes 100000. This does not include
many more millions which have been con-
tributed in small amounts from time to
time individually and through the various
religious and benevolent organizations.
There are hundreds of private schools
scattered through the south for both white
and colored children which are supported
directly by northern benevolences. You
will find them in the mountains of North
Carolina and Tennessee and in the cotton
fields of the gulf states.
There are universities. colleges, indus
trial, technical and agricultural institutes,
theological seminares. kindergartens and
every grade of school between maintained
by northern money. Some of them ac-
Commodate thousands of students like
Booker Washington's great school at Tus-
kegee. while others are found In log cab
ms where some devoted Christian woman
is spending her life in teaching the word
of God and the proper use of the facill-
ties He has created to a handful of picka-
ninnies-
If this total amount of northern money
spent for education in the south since
the war could be accurately calculated 1t
would exceed a hundred millions of dol
lars.
Northern Organizations.
There are five great organizations OF
northern people for the purpose of pro-
noting education in the south.
The first is the Southern Education
Board, organized December 3, 1901. which
is intended primarily Ito inform the pub
lie regarding educational conditions in the
south. and TO create public sentiment
for the betterment of such conditions"
The officers are Robert c. Ogden of the
firm of John Wanamaker & Co, presi- |
dent, George Foster Peabody. treasurer;
Edgar Gardner Murphy, Montgomery, |
Ala, secretary; G.. S. Dickerman, New |
board has no special funds, but raises |
by private contribution whatever may be |
necessary to carry on it's work.
Rockefeller Gifts.
The largest benefaction on record for |
education. or. perhaps, any other single |
purpose. is the gift of John D. Rookie |
Teller to the general education board"
which is incorporated by Congress. The |
original gift was 81 100000 to promote |
education in the southern states, made
February ~. 1902. This was supple
,nented June 30 1905. by a gift of $1O.-l
t0O,001 and April I, 1891. by an addition
of So, 0O0. GEO. making total of 343. 900. 600
The fund 10 known as the John ID.
Rockefeller Foundation for Higher Edu-
cation: to cooperate sympatheticalIy and
helpfuJly with the religious denomna-
tons, to choose the centers of wealth
and population as the permanent pivots
OF an educational system; to- mass its
funds on endowments, procuring in this |
work the largest possible local eo-opera-
ton"
The income of the fund amounts an
nually to about two million and half Of |
dollars. of which about SEQ 900 goes to
assist in the support of rural schools for |
colored people. and the remainder is ex- |
pended through state universities. state
departments of education. and other agen-
cies to promote elementary education to
Increase the productive efficiency of rural !
life. and to aid in developing schools for |
the training OF leaders among the colored |
people.
Only small portion of the funds have
been expended in the north and that is |
for the assistance of small colleges which
in each case. are required to secure equal
amounts for additions to their endow-
mentS before they can realize upon the
Rockefeller gifts. Such conditional ap-
preparations have been made to forty COL
1eges in ten southern states and eleven
northern states. Twenty five of them have
complied with the conditions and have
raised S2.227.1I1 for permanent endow-
ments in order to obtain a similar sum
from the Rockefeller fund.