The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-27
GIRLS
MAY CONTRIBUTE
FROM DIME TO $40
In Xmas Giving for Women's
Colleges in Orient
HOPE TO RAISE MILLION
Money Secured viii BE Used to Pur
chase Land and Con-
struct Buildings

A@S~Flh5 ucNOuu llle cNHOIldllOu 10
your Christmas shopping now" which
everywhere meets the eye, Mrs. Henry
W. Peabody, Mrs. w. A. Montgomery.
Dr. James L. Barton. Mr. Robert f.
Speer, and Reverend Frank Mason
North, members Of the special Commit.
tee Just formed in the interest of the
union colleges for women of the ORR.
ent' are IN thousands Of letters, circu.
lars and appeals scattered all over the
country, urging people to do their
Christmas giving now,--and to concen
trate on the international Christmas
gilt designed to raise million dollars
for these colleges.
Between the lst and the Goth of De
cember, in homes In cities and towns
OF any considerable size all over the
country, there viii be given series
Of Christmas parties Guests will wit
ness a beautiful Christmas mystery
play IN the course of which quaint old
Christmas carols will be chanted.
That college girls themselves. who
may not be able to help their sisters in
the Far East TO the extent Of ten del
lars, may still have a share in this in
spring plan for an international
Christmas gift, every girl in every wo.
mans college in the country is to be
asked to give a dime for a Christmas
greeting, a dollar for a remembrance.
or ten dollars for a gift, Soon in all
the fye hundred womens colleges Of
the country there will appear On the
bulletin board a clever poster and a
small box duplicating in miniature the
proposed new building at Ginlng
China. to receive the gifts.
This phase Of the drive to provide
lend and buildings for the colleges Of
the Orient is sure to appeal TO the
imagination OF all college women It
Us being more and more reeC gnized
that subject womanhood is the cause
and the explanation Of the backward
East" 50 though we may not have a
league Of nations, there is no reason
why we should not league OF col
leges,
To young men In business. this
phase OF decentralization makes a tire
mendous appeal An officer OF the
chamber Of commerce IN San Frencis
co who has recently returned from a
commercial commission 10 establish
better relations with Japan said TO the
trustees of the Woman's University in
Toxic 81 saw that womans college
and its fine body OF students, and ]
tell you Il viii do more t3 establish
right international relations than all
that chambers Of commerce can do"
a great deal of the educational
work in the East has in the past been
remedial. The new note which is be
ing more and more stressed is that q
prevention. We must get these far
away countries to the point where
they can not only support themselves
but recruit their own teaching force
Mis- Eleanor McDougaA. president Of
the Woman's Christian College Mad.
ra /. South India. who is now IN the
United States speaking On the higher
education of midas women. is point
ing out that by the new home rule act
passed by parliament lest spring. Ger
tain functions Of government, OF which
education Is one, are on December TO
be transferred to Indian control Yet
only FIVE percent Of the men of india
are lterate, end but one percent CT
the women, outside the large cities.
How great contribution is being
made by such colleges as Madras to
the solution Of this problem, will, how
ever be realized when 1t is added
that seven years ago only seven wo'
men out of every thousand in india
could read
Lucknow College for women, begun
by Isabella Thoburn and long ana
especial care of the Methodist church
viii share with Madras in India the
fruit, of the Christmas giving, TWO
Of the colleges to benefit by the drive
are In China: Pekin or Yenchmg'
which began in 1907 in the great
Chinese capitol and is the one hope
for training the leaders of women in
the North, and Ginling College at
| Nanking, which is war baby and
lis stnl living in an old rented Chinese
lhouse with fungus and mold on Its
walls and floors and withoue any prop
er heating facilities.
fitis true that Christian education
is the hope Of Japan, It is even more
true that deoency and humanity de
mand an answer to the appeal OF lndia
for help, through Vellore Medical col
lege, of which Or. Ida Scudder Is the
head for the suffering women VINO N
that country are born, live ana oie
with no medical aid.
If the plan Of these plucky women
now organized to raise a million dol
lars goes through, il every college
Girl in the country does her part tow
ard the international Christmas gite
If doctors aud nurses can be enlisted
to help, and if al the women now beinl
lined up in all the states take share
IN the international Christmas gilt
by remitting ten dCllars to the nation
al treasurer. Russell Carter, at LOT
Fifth Avenue. before the first OF Jan
..,-,. thr,., ie ,vorv chnnCp that the