The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
FOUNDATION
WORK FOR NEGROES
How Fund Is Being Used for
Educational and Indus
trial Education
10 the Editor of The Age Herald

TO the Editor of The Age Herald:
Distributing $40, SO proceeds from
the Anna r. Jeanes foundation for ele-
mentary and industrial training of ne
groes in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina.
Tennessee. Texas and Virginia, in the
employment of III supervisors who
worked on an average seven months
and nine days in 1I9 counties and par
ishes, besides employing four special
teachers in Alabama, Louisiana, Ten
ncssee and Texas. extending the school
| term in six of the states mentioned,
aiding summer schools in North Caro-
| lima, South Carolina and Tennessee, eX-
pending $737 railroad fare of industrial
supervisors to. the Hampton conference,
Monroe conference, Tuskegee confer
ence and Greensboro conference as
| s;sting in building and equipping
schoolhouses in 20 counties and show
| ing altogether a net number of 1856
counties in II states where help was
given to assist the south in reducing
negro illiteracy and to enhance his
Elementary and industrial training. is
| the summary of the last report of DR..
J. II. Di1lard, president of the board OF
| trustees. The report shows that for
supervisory teachers alone $35,S65 was
| expended for the year ending June 80,
l1e12.
There are five great educational
foundations whose funds are assisting
| in the education of the negro-the Pea
booy educational fund, the Daniel Hand
fund, the John f. Slater fund. the gen
eral education board and the Anna r.
Jeanes fund. Three of these funds
the Slater, the Daniel Hand and the
Jeanes-are entirely in the interest Of
regro education.
On April is, 1907, states the Negro
Year Book" Miss Anna 7. Jeanes Of
Philadelphia, Pa, created an endow-
ment fund in perpetuity, the income
from which was to be applied toward
the maintenance and assistance Of ele-
mentary schools for negroes in the
southern states III. B. Frissell. prin-
oipal of the Hampton institute, and
Booker L. Washington, principal OF
TuskeSee institute, were named as
trustees of the fund.
number of other gentlemen were
invited to- aid in the administration Of
the fund and board of trustees was
organized. The present board is COM
posed of David G. Darrow Andrew
Carnegie, James III. billiard, H. B. Frjs-
sell. Bolton Gilreath, III Il. Healing,
George McAneny, Samuel C. Mitchell,
r. Motion, j. c. Napier, Robert c.
Ogden, Walter Fl. Page. George Foster
Peabody, r. l.. Smith, William H. Taft
Rooker T. Washington and Talcott
Williams. The officers of the board
are: President, James Fl. billiard, 571
Audubon street, New Orleans; vice pres
ident. Walter II. Page, editor of the
Worlds Work, New York; treasurer,
George Foster Peabody, New York
secretary Robert r. Motion. Hampton,
Virginia.
The work Is carried. along three lines:
first, something additional is secured
from the state school authorities; sec
ond. the cooperative efforts of the
people are secured. and third, the ef-
fectiveness of the school is improved
and its neighborhood influence is
videned by the introduction of indus
trial features
The three principal working methods
or plans are. the Henrico <plan, so
called because work OF this Character
vas carried on in Henrico county Vir-
ginia. This plan consists in supplying
to the county superintendent COM
petent' teacher to introduce industrial
work in the different schools in the
county and to supervise 1t. The teacher
devotes his or her entire time to this
supervisory work.
Another plan consists in locating n
TEACHER at some central school as head
quarters. This teacher gives . part