Newport daily independent., 1919-01-27
PLANS COMPLETE
 FUR ME. DRIVE
South and West to Be Materially Ben- efitted By the Results of the Big
 Missionary Drive.

The following was handed to the
 Independent this morning by Rev. J.
 F. E. Bates, for publication. It will explain the Missionary Centenary meeting, which convenes here, begin
 ing tonight. Several visiting minis- ters and church workers are in att tendance and altogether it is believed that the conference will prove most
 beneficial to all in attendance as we'll as an aid in providing the means of enlarging missionary work.
 Plans are now completed for the eight-day drive for $35,000,000 which the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will put on April 27 to May 4. The campaign is in charge of Lyman Pearce, who was one of the govern ment campaign managers, and all the departments affiliated with the campaign are busily at work at head quarters in Nashville. The immensity of the sum to be raised means that the task itself is an immense one and offices are humming with all the stir and buzz that goes with big business.
 While the movement is denomina- tional, it is for the benefit of the world-a large portion of the fund which will be raised being turned right over again to build up the conn munities from which it came in the Southern and Western states. Among the various forms of reconstruction work here at home that will be un- dertaken as a result of the raising of the $35,OOO, ,O0O will be the following: Five schools of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church will be materially assisted with $50,000 each, while Paine College will be helped with $250,OOO for endowment, buildings and equipment. Aside from this practical work in educating the color ed people in their midst the denomi- nation will erect school to train re- ligious teachers, leaders and preach CTS for the Indians of all tribes now located in the United States. This school will cost $150,000 and its es- tablishment will mark the beginning of great forward movement among
 the Indian population.
 A particular effort will be made by the Department of Home Missions Of the church to help the mountain pop ulation. Ten schools now under con ference ownership will be financially assisted with $5O,0OO each, while the same sum will be spent annually in carrying on the religious and social work needed to meet the immediate needs of these people. The foreign CTS in the South and West will be the beneficiaries of the campaign to the extent of forty night schools, thirty churches and additional missions. Three schools for Mexicans will need s10OO00 each, the Textile Industrial Institute at Spartanburg, N. C., for cotton mill operatives, will receive $50 00O and the circuit riders of the church will, together with hundreds of Methodist pastors, have their small salaries raised to meet the higher scale of living of the present day.
 The Woman's Work, Home Depart ment, has outlined it's efficiency pro- gram for the next five years tin ad- dition to it's present income) as foi- lows: Mountain work, $158,6OO; city work, $442,00O; Latin Americans, S151, ,OOO; Gulf Coast work, $S2,5Oo; orientals on Pacific coast, $33,0O0; negroes, $243,000; dependent girls, $1O0,000.
 The expenditure of such vast sums of money in the Southern and South western states during the immediate months and years ahead-and m such definite phases of reconstruc- tion-means a great step forward for the populations therein affected. A large portion of the $35,OoO'ooU will also be spent in reconstruction work in France and Belgium and m sending medical and educational mis- sionarjes to Africa, Brazil, China, Gu ba. Japan, Korea and Mexico--as we'll as building up the missionary work substantially in those countries