The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

Mrs Elliott continued. "Thirty-seven or
 such city mission boards are scattered
 throughout the south and west. in the
 mining and cotton mill districts, and
 among the negroes and foreigners. These
 settlements are interested in day nur-
 series, kindergartens, industrial classes
 clinics, mothers clubs, etc. The work
 extends to the immigrant of our ports,
 and is helping to Americanize two mll-
 lion foreigners. These include the Japa-
 nese and Koreans of California, the Mex
 jeans of Texas, the Italians of Louisiana
 and Alabama and Cubans of Florida.
 When we recall that there are 6oo,oo
 Mexisan in Texas, according to gov
 ernment expert, more Italians in BIT
 mingham than any other southern city,
 with the exception of New Orleans, ana
 more Christians in Shanghai, China, than in San Francisco; that there are fV0,oUJ
 cotton mill people and 100000 negroes In
 the south, we are not surprised that the
 big Want Ad' of the city mission work
 spells:
 'Wanted-4O trained nurses, 9 kinder
 teners, 90 domestic science teachers D
 deaconesses for mining districts and 70
 church deaconesses to join the home
 guard already at work over there
 Then there is the ahome protection of
 the working girl Mrs. Elliott said. Be-
 fore the war 50 per cent of the women
 between the ages of 16 and 25 were en-
 gagged in wage earning and during the
 war 100000 young women were engaged
 in making war products alone. For the
 benefit of part of this army of work
 ing women, the council has established cooperative homes. There are also schools for dependent girls who are
 trained to earn a livelihood, and for de- linuuent girls industrial homes of refuge Before leaving the home land, may we listen moment to young woman, now the cultured product of one of our mountain schools, speak: l lived way out in the mountains, says she. quite 26 miles from railroad. had never in the Is years of my life seen a railroad or church or school, or heard ser- mon preached I had seen plenty of stills. I knew only loneliness and hard work. But one day wonderful thing happened to this little mountaineer. Pro- lessor Trowbridge, president of Brevard college, in North Carolina, made vfsit to the secluded spot and brought our heroine in homespun to this mountain school The day we heard the story this attractive young woman was telling, we heard also the earnest plea she made for the enlargement O. our mountain schools to meet the demands of hun dreds who must be turned away for lack of room and we read the ads. | Wanted 600 for mountain schools, and think seriously on the proposition. "Of course the council had numbers of wants listed in the foreign column, Mrs. 1 Elliott said, but when we talked to wln- some little Miss Sieu E. Yui, pupil ot | our Scarritt Bible Training school, fwho | is preparing to go as missionary to her people, and to the gifted Mrs. Tsfang. | tI Ieasurer of the China mission confer ence, we didn't think of them as foreign | CTS We agreed with Bishop McMurrah' | who declared that the Chinese are the
 most friendly people in the orient to the United States. You know when our north Alabama missionary to China, Msss Vir- ginia Atkinson, tells us that the China mission conference Mrs. Tsiang repre- sents is not only helping China, but send ing tithe to missions to Africa, when we remember that our medical force has | answered the Red Cross call and gone from Soochow, China, to Siberia, 1t seems 1 that love ministries are rather contiguous doesn't it? So it seemed to me when pr. Munpower brought good news from the heart of Africa. and when numbers oi missionaries added to the account Bishop McMurrah and Bishop Moore brought oi
 work already established in Korea ana