News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-05-20
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NATIONAL
~ RANOE
Conducted by Charles M. Gardner, Editor
of the National Grange, Westaeld, Mass.
HELP FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE
Missouri Grange Adopts Plan to En-
able Girls and Boys to Acquire
an Education.

| Massachusetts State grange two
years ago for aiding young men and
woman to get an education through
| long time loans at nominal interest
| rates, the state grange of Missouri has
| taken up similar undertaking and
at the recent state session in Moberly
started the students foundation fund
which seems capable Of great posi-
bilities for aiding the young people of
that state. A considerable sum Of
money was raised at the session,
while the interest awakened among
prominent members throughout the
state indicates the probable addition
of several thousands Of dollars within
q short time.
The purpose and plan of the fund
are thus concisely outlined:
First: The purpose of this fund is
to assist young men and women to
complete their education in any line
of business chosen by the applicant.
Second: This fund is to be loaned
in annual amounts sufficient to defray
the expenses in part or in whole OF
students approved by the trustees.
Third: The funds loaned are to be
secured by the note of the individual,
said notes to be paid as rapidly as pos
sible by the benefciaries. with the
end in view to keep the fund intact as
near as possible.
Fourth: This fund shall be placed
IN the hands of five trustees; c. O.
Raine, master of the Missouri State
grange, being chairman of the trus
tees.
Fifth: Benefciaries of this fund
must be acceptable to the trustees.
Sixth: The trustees shall make
report to the State Grange of Mis-
souri, at it's annual meeting, giving
receipts, disbursements and resources.
The annual travelling expenses of the
trustees, while on business for the
fund, shall be paid from the fund"
Certificates are to be issued to those
size of gift will be received and re-
corded. The notes from the students
are made gifts of honor to be paid
when the beneficiary has been
equipped to earn a living in a chosen
line of work.
The alumni of the students foun-
dation fund will become an honor
roll, of those who avoided charity and
rose by self-help. Those benefited will
be in a position to help future bene-
hciaries to places Of importance, as
the students equip themselves for
world work. The beneficiaries will
be taught that the state owes them
nothing, but they, being a part of the
state, owe to their state, themselves
and others, the best that is in them.
AS the students pay their notes with
out distress to themselves the money
will be used to help other students.
In this connection it is interesting
to learn that the Massachusetts plan,
after a two years trial, is a complete
success and is counted as one of the
most promising educational move
ments ever started in that state. Be-
tween 80 and 40 young men and wom-
en- have already become beneficiaries
under the state grange fund and are
now getting an education, who prob
ably must otherwise have gone with
out it. The fund is growing steadily, |
but the calls for educational aid are |
likewise increasing rapidly.