The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-24

Indented in the wall in the matroh
room is the medicine closet contain
ing the first aid remedies. The IN
s.itution has the services of one ply
lsician who does all the practice.
Halburt hall was inspected from
reception hall to kitchen and neat
ness and cleanliness was the rule
Throughout the building,
The children we're comfortably
clad. The writer did not expect to
find the inmates of a negro orphan
age on dress parade and was not dis
appointed.
In the back yard was big pile
of fire wood cut and hauled by the
boys of the orbhsnage. In all stse
buildings there was comfortable
warmth although the weather was
raw on the out side.
An enormous bank of sweet po-
tatoes was seen on the premises.
About 1900 bushels were raised on
the farm Peas. also, were raised
in great quantities.
The endowments of the institution
at present consist of the following
realty and pledges:
Seven hundred and fifty acres OF
land There is town property I'D
a number of Texas towns and cities
and a tract of land in Oklahoma. Be
sides the above there are bank notes
to the amount of $1,000.
Rev. Dickson recently made
tour of the north and east and met
many of Americas great financiers.
He has several thousand dollars
subscribed payable in three annual
He has a proposition
made by a wealthy northern man
that if he will raise $4,000 and
get the banks to certify Ii he VIII
give the orphanage S25, goo. Dick
son says he has raised $4,000 OF this
and has $4,000 to raise TO secure
this big fund. John d. Rockefeller
Jr. has promised to give him an
amount equal to the entire aggregate
Iif he can raise the amount stated.
Dickson asks the people of Gilmer
for $4,000, as he states the town,
as a collective body, has never done
anything for him
1t is the aim of the management
Ito have a board of regents for the
institution, composed of number
|of leading business men of the state.
ut is desired that twelve good ciS-
Izens of Gilmer have place on the
board. which will have complete con-
troll over all property rights of the
institution. Some OF the eity's most
substantial citizens have expressed
"a willingness 10 act in such capac-
lily and probably the full local con-
!tingent will be made up soon.
Dickson, what are the moral con-
| ditions here and what safeguards
are thrown around these girls and
boys?" was a direct question put by
the representative of the Echo.
Il am glad you asked me that
Question replied Dickson. He then
stated that the moral conditions were
ibetter than at most negro institu-
lions. He said that where girls were
iplaced in families as house girls, the
moral surroundings at the home
must be good; and it must be defin-
litely understood that girls SO placed
must live at that home and not be
lconsigned TO indefinite lodging
iplaces. Girls had been taken from
homes when it was learned that in
/ fluenees were not what they ought
to be. Seventy-nine girls and twelve
boys have been married at the insti-
tuition. Attaches are dismissed on
evidence of improper conduct and
lack of moral fitness.
Industrial education is aimed ar.
The inmates. Dickson says, must ex-
pect to make living by work and he
wants TO fit them for making an hon
est living.
| Dickson is a democrat. He be
lieves that his best support must
come from the white people. The
ieolered people do not rally to his
moral or financial upbuilding. He is
a white mans negro. ''-Upshul
County Echo.