The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-19
LIBERAL AID
FROM CHURCH
FOR NEGROES
Friends Subscribe to Funds
for Colored Industrial
School.-Meeting Trustees
Make Report.

The appointment of important COM
mittees, consideration of reports from
Southland college and Whites insti-
tute, a discussion of home missions
and the temperance question featured
the session of the Indiana Yearly
Meeting today.
The appeal for funds for Southland
college, a negro Industrial school To-
Gated at Helena, Ark, met with lib
eral response. About fifteen $25
scholarships were subscribed and a
number of smaller donations swelled
the aggregate to an acceptable sum.
Mrs Mary McVicker, in discus
sion of the report of Southland col
lege, detailed the excellent work
which the institution Is doing in up
lifting the social, moral and indus
trial condition of the negro. She said
that the negro pupils at Southland
believe that the North is made up of
Friends.
Walter C. Mills, head of the depart
ment of Industrial training at the col
lege, in an eloquent plea. argued for
the necessity of scholarships to en-
able poor negro boys to attend the
college this year. He said that the
low price of cotton last year and the
the negroes that they are lacking the
necessities Of life.
Report Is Presented.
The report Of the trustees of the
college asked for $1,000 and dona.
tions for scholarships. There are 800
students, nine teachers, 20 acres of
land, four main buildings and five
smaller buildings. The institution ex-
pended $4,000 last year.
A. M. Gardner, Barclay johnson and
Eunice Kelsey were appointed mem
bers of the missionary board of South
land.
Oliver H. Bogue, formerly of New
York, now resident here, members of
the visiting committee, complimented
the management Of Whites Institute,
a Friends orphanage in this state,
after the report of the trustees had
been presented.
William C. Diggs, and Nathan Gill
bert were elected trustees of Whites
Institute, and Flora M. Parker was
placed on the visiting committee.
The sixteenth annual report of the
trustees to the Indiana meeting &C
knowledged the receipt of 13,346.S2
from the Mary E. Smith estate of
Richmond. The proceeds of the fund
are to be applied to the institution.
There are 205 children in the orphan
age. Eighty-seven boys and twenty
six girls were discharged last year. A
new farm house costing $1,144 was
erected. The receipts in the last year
were $29,S8496. The total value of
the institution is $157,36S.S2. Oliver
H. Bogue informed the meeting that
he could dispose of the property for
twice that amount.
Reports on Peace.
Isaac S. Sharp, of London, spoke be-
fore the meeting Wednesday after
noon. He deplored the war cry that
is being raised in England regarding
an imminent war with Germany, and
said that the scare was exaggerated.
The English people, he said were not
DESTROYS of war. Professor Allen D..
Hole, of Earlham college, spoke on
the general topic of peace. He admit
ted that some wars had redounded to
the benefit of mankind, but held that
the same results could have been OBJ
tanned by arbitration. He believed
that the day of international wars is
past and that the world desires peace
The committee on peace did not pre-
sent resolutions to the general body.
The committee on evangelization
and church extension was appointed
as follows: Truman Kenwqrthy, Ten
nyson Lewis and Ida S. Henly.
The Epistolary committee consists
OF the following: Timothy Nicholson,
J. Edgar Williams. James Unthank,
three years; DR.. o. H. Huff, Worthy
Williams. Anna Freeman, two years;
c. E. Davis, Alice Lawrence, Elma
Thomas. one year.