The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
MOVING OF HOWARD
 AT STANDSTILL NOW
College Still Lacks $4O,OOO to Make Endowment
 End of $400,000

For the time being the question of
 moving Howard college to new loca-
 ton has come to a standstill.
 When the people of Troy created a home for the state Baptist orphanage
 they eliminaaed the prospective tenant of the present Howard college plant.
 Removal of Howard college, although still under active consideration. is a question that has received a setback
 Dr. C. B. Williams. president of the college. however, is still. with the aid
 of prominent ministers and laymen i among the Baptist of the state, work ing on the increase of the endowment. The Howard trustees and pr. Williams have gone to work to create for How ard college cash endowment of si00,- OOO.. and to free the institution from all debt.
 Howard has to it's credit in it's en- dow1a ami now s100, 1000. The
 trustees are striving to raise s251, ,ooo. If they succeed the New York board of education will give them an addi-
 tional s1OO 900.
 1 The s51.000 represents the debts Of | the institution. The trustees want to clear this debt above all things. Dr. Williams left the city on the l 4.20 o'clock train yesterday afternoon to confer with J. Carter Wright of Roanoke. one of the trustees of the
 college, who is visiting in Appalachi-
 cola, Fla.
 After an intensive effort on the part of Baptist churches in the state and | many laymem, the cash fund of the | S251 900, has been brought up to with | in about Sf0,000 of the amount tha | l is needed. It is that last $4o.000 that is | giving the present trying labor and | for which the trustees are striving. | If they get it, it will not only mean | that the college can be cleared from debt, but it will insure a gift of $100,- 900 cash.
 1 If the present efforts prove success 1 ful the college will have a cash endow- ment of $400000. This will give an annual income of s24,o00. A sum that
 is sorely needed for operating expenses From the Baptist campaign year , ago to raise S75.000, 900, Howard col | lege is to get $440,000, but this sum will not be available for five years, i for the notes taken during the cam 1 paign provide for very slow payments, meanwhile the institution is caught with everything else, in the fight for | existence in the present high cost of 1 living, and it's available income is 1 totally inadequate for maintainance,
 and the developments and improve ments that are fundamentally necess- ary for the college to keep pace with others, and more generously provided | for educational units of the south.
 With the accruing fees for tuition and other items of income, Howard | college could with the $24,000 annual
 interest on the s400,Oo0, which the l trustees are trying to raise, meet it's
 expenses and do a lot of improvement
 work. To say nothing of the great
 saving the college will achive if it can
 secure the money to cancel the $51, 00C debt.
 Meantime ministers like pr. ]. R Hobbs, of the Firest Baptist church
 of Birmingham. a member of the board
 of the college, and other directors oi
 the institution are working day and
 night to try to raise that final $40,O0O
 which will take the institution out oi it's present situation and enable it to l accomplish work and development l that otherwise would take years oi
 painful effort, detrimental economies
 and loss of many opportunities for ad- vancement and achievement.