The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-23
SUBSCRIBE LARGE
SUMS FOR SCHOOL
Prominent Presbylerians VIII
Give Forty Thousand Dol
lars to Movement.
THE PRESENT DAY NEEDS
Much Enthusiasm Displayed at Baa-
quet Given in the Southland Hotel.
President Hornbeak Of Tim
ity University Speaks.

Dallas, Texas, Oct. 23.-Beginnlng
| a movement to raise 500 900 tor
| the endowment of the schools of the
Presbyterian Church. u. S. A, in
Texas, $50 prominent members of
that church met last night in the
banquet hall of the Hotel Southland.
They subscribed about $4,000 un-
der the exhortation of Lockett
Adair. Many of the gifts were in
large sums.
Provided the Texas synod of the
church raises 100000, the general
assembly of the church will, under
the promise it has made, give $780,
000 to supplement the endowment
fund. Hence last nights banqnet
was the beginning in reality of a
campaign for 100000
The gathering was a representa-
tive one All parts of Texas We're rep
resented The toastmaster was Judge
A B. Watkins of Athens, and most
of the addresses made here were by
out t-of-town men. Though the ar
rangements for the affair were made
by local men, they gave precedence
to distinguished laymen and preach
ers from out of town. The effort was
to feature the state wide meaning
and importance Of the movement.
Following the invocation by DR..
John S. Edenburn OF Stamford, Clar
ence Magee, accompanied by Miss
Lucille Burk, sang. Hon. Robert b..
Seay, judge of the criminal district
court of Dallas, gave the address Of
welcome, and y. J. Wade of Fort
Worth made response. He announced
the subscription of DR. c. e, Maye
|of San Angelo for $1,000, payable
on demand, for the educational en-
dowment.
The second large subscription was
in the sum of $4,000 pledged by
George NJ. Oakley, president of
Weatherford Female Seminary. The
pledge was made in behalf of the
trustees of the seminary and the To-
cal church at Weatherford.
Discussing the needs of the semi
nary, President Oakley said that
$50, 900 was desired. OF that amount
he said $4,000 should be used in
the erection of an ample dormitory
| to house the students now enrolled.
He thought $4,000 ought to be ex-
Ipended for musical hail.
Dr. S. L. Hornbeak president of
Trinity University at Waxahachie,
the central school OF the American
Presbyterian church in Texas, said
in part:
Il believe this gathering marks a
new era in Presbyterian educational
work in Texas
| The church schools of today, un-
| like the church schools of few gen
erations ago, find it difficult to sus-
tain themselves. The city public
schools and other public schools
have so developed that it seems to
some, perhaps, that we should quit
| the school business. And we should
| if we haven't a work that is distinc-
| tive, a work that no one else can do.
| A few generations ago the church
schools taught common subjects
| that were not taught outside of the
church schools, for the big public
schools and universities that have
since been organized, and that are
being organized. were not in compe-
tition.
g 1t is imperative, therefore, that
| we make special effort to meet pres
ent day needs. Our expenses are heay
Ter. For one thing, the salaries OF
| teachers are higher, and | am glad
of it. The teachers have too long been
tunderpaid Tuition fees can not pay
all expenses of big university, and
we can not reasonably expect them
! to. We must have endowment. | con-
| tend that 1t is our duty to give oul
Presbyterian boys and girls the very
test educational advantages.
Trinity University has three
| buildings, one of them magnificent