The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-29
of che Churches and Religious Actiuitied
MISSIONARY UNION. WILL LOCATE HERE. WHEN ROOMS FOUND.
Move From Baltimore Only Awaits Securing of Quar- erS-AIabama Women
 Connected With It


 Baptists of Alabama, as well as their friends of other denominations are interested in the recent decision of the Woman's Missionary union of the Southern Baptist convention to establish headquarters of this great organization in Birmingham.
 Removal from the present head quarters at Baltimore will be effected as soon as adequate office space can be secured by the committee now at work on location, and 1t Is expected all arrangements will be made for beginning operations from this point not later than October 1.
 Mrs w. c. James, the president of this largest Baptist womehs organt- zation in the south, who is 80 widely beloved for her gifts of mind and heart, came from Richmond last De- tober to make Birmingham her home, when this city was chosen headquar- ters of the education board of the southern convention, of which Dr. James. her husband, is secretary.
 That my home is in Birmingham had nothing to do with moving head 
 Baltimore" Mrs. James said, while she smilingly assured: You see l was neutral, and had nothing to say on the subject. It was Miss Annie Will Hams presentation of the facts with regard to the accessibility of Bir- mingham within "A hours ride of most of the cities which are our state headQuarters; her plea for this city on account of it's being a church center because of It's progressiveness it's cli- mate, it's beauty, and because of its nearness to the Baptist center of popu- lation, that finally won the day for us here.
 BAPTIST LEADERS
 "The establishment of our head quarters will bring Miss Kathleen Mallory, our general secretary, so well known to her native Alabama. and to Birmingham" said Mrs. James, "and will also bring Miss Juliet Mathew, originally from Arkansas who Is in charge of young peoples work throughout the south. Miss Ethel Winfield. assistant to Miss Nal lory, will be among the newcomers to Rirmingham, as will a large clerical force
 Among the interesting features of our work at headquarters will be the publication of our official organ, Royal Service" a magazine that has a paid subscription list of 44,oO0.
 PHASES OF WORK
 "As an auxiliary to the southern Baptist convention, our Woman's Mis- sionary union, takes up every phase of work that the convention pro notes. including home and fol eign missions and other lines of service Mrs. James informed. "Ours is an in- corporated body empowered to own property. From the $75,000,000 cam paign our organization will receive $500. 900, of which s200,000 will be used for endowment, and s100,000 for enlargement and equipment of our buildings"
 Something of the magnitude of the work of the Woman's Missionary union will be gained when it is recalled that during the past year southern Baptist women gave s3,000,000 that passed through the channels of this organiza- tions for all purposes. $s5o,oo0 of which went toward foreign H1issions.
 "This amount is also indicative of the spirit of liberality that has pre- vailed among our women during the past year being an increase of S700,0 over the year before, and large an> n~~' tncrnase over the $11,oo0,ooo that had been paid during the entire SS years preceding.
 MARGAKEI FUND
 Our organization maintains a schol- arship fund of s30,0o0 in behalf of the sons and daughters of missionaries called the Margaret fund" said Mrs James. "Last year S9 boys and girls received the benefits of this fund and this year we have AS. most of whom are preparing to be missionaries.
 At our training school in Louisville we have an enrolment of 126 pupiI who are preparing for home and for- eign work. Mrs. Maud McLure, an Alabama woman is at the head of this institution
 These are just a few of the phases of our work" said Mrs. James. We have thousands of missionary classes throughout the South. and the litera- ture for this work will be handled at cur headquarters here"
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
 In coming to Birmingham, the Wo- mans Missionary union of the southern convention is fortunate in having such a large number of Baptist women pre- f,ared to assume the duties of the local members of the executive committees.
 The fifteen who were elected to this konor at the recent Memphis meeting arc Mrs. w. T. Berry Mrs T. c. Bush. Mrs J. E. Dillard. Mrs. J. T. Doster, Mrs. B. A. Inglis. Mrs. William F. Johnson. Mrs. Sumpter Lea, Jr, Mrs. Hugh Mcdonald. Mrs G. w. Morrow,