The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-02
A SIGNIFICANT GIFT FOR
SOUTHERN EDUCATION
Into Class That May Take Laurels
From Rockefellcrs and Others.
GAMBLER, OF GEORGIA, LEADS
Southern Folks Getting TO Re Able
to DO Something, and Ability Is
the Only Needful Thing-.in Invl-
tution to Others to DO Likewise.

Tho following from the Manufac-
iurcrs Record speaks for itself:
The gift by Asa q. Gambler OF ST.
100000 TO the University OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South. founded
1T Atlanta last week with donations
Tor it's permanent 1000 900 fund. row
aggrcgating Sl,52S,000, Is one OF the
most significant facts of this century in
connection with Southern education
The gift is a generous one. larger. we
believe. than any gift of the kind in
one sum made in life by any other ma
tive Of state south of the Potomac.
1t IS Il practical gift the full effect OF
which cannot now be measured. But
its chief value is tic emphasis given
by II on two main lines.
J.: is, IN. the first place, 4 dramatic
suggestion TO men of wealth in the
South TO make. while they are alive
the kind of Investment best calculated
to bring the greatest returns to their
section. The South has been accunu-
latng wealth rapidly in the Nnst TWEEN
ty-tivc or thirty years. From corpora
lions of all kinds alone 1t now has an
annual income of nearly 100000. 600.
II is producing every year S3.90O.0O 900
in factories. $1,000. 100000 in agricul
turc, 100000, 0n0 Ia forestry and $500
100000 In mining. Since 1850 IL has
added SlS.000.000. 900 to it's propcrty
values OF 1000 900. practically
iItDlltS those NaiueS. Gut of the
abundance thus created have been made
some large gifts to education. notably
those OF Hopkins, Rice, Duke and ru-
lane, while the people as n whole have
spent about Sl,0OO.OO0, 900 upon the
common schools But there have ao
been as many individual gifts in large
sums as conditions have warranted
Too few southern men who have sue.
ceeded In material things have been
alert TO divert part of their surplus
into the right educational channels for
greater production and higher bcnc-
iits. The explanation is easy.
Just about the time when Southern
men began TO gain ability TO follow
natural instincts In making gifts for
education in their section the South
was made the special field for Il cam
paign of dependence in education. the
nainstay OF a demand for "nationa!
AID Upon the soil this prepared have
been sown for 4 dozen years the per
nicious seed Of educational mendicancy.
For dozen years has been presented
the spectacle Of so-callcd educational
leaders In the South hot-foot after
dolcs from couple of funds which, In
their inception and in their adminiStra :
ton. have tended to obscure funda =
mcntals in education and TO demoralizc
tho body OF teachers and students. In
the case of quite a number of institu
4 tions supposed to stand for training
under demoninational influences. the
influences that for Il century and morc
had produced the really educated men
Of the South, there have been legal ana
moral hair-splittings In the desire t.
get into contact with tho danSled daz-
cling dollars Of educational trusts -
with scant regard for the sacrifices
that have been made for many years
by hundreds OF thousands of men and
women under the impression that they
were helping to support their re-
spective UNCONVENTIONAL schools. In
repudiating the facts upon which such
an impression was based or In scorn-
ing further dcnominational influences
moro than ono institution In the South
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