Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-05-04
CRossvLLE, TENNESSEE, May 1921
EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT
Staged for the Last Week in This
Month; $4,000, 900 to Be
Raised.

Raised
The coming great educational driv,
which is staged for the last of Ma
and the first of June, covering one fu
week, is being much talked of an
some of the bestminds in the countr
are carrying to the people ringin
messages that are sure to awakei
the people as never before on tn
question of education. Among tn
number of able men who are calling
attention to the coming drive is DR.
j. H. Reynolds. director general o.
the Christian Education Commission
In a recent talk he said in part:
"How long will 1.-The South stand for
this?" he asked commenting on the
fact that statistics show the higher
educational institutions to be shame
fully poor.
"Of sixty colleges and universities
in the United States having an endow-
nlent of 100000 or more, only five
are in the South, and one of the FIVE
is a Negro school, and only one be-
longs to the Southern Methodist
church. According to the Worlds Al
manac, in 1920 $87,464,oo3 was contrib
uted to Northern colleges and uni
versities and only $2so,ooo to Southern
institutions in gifts of $4,000 or above.
above. +.
Moreover, all of these gifts we::c
by Northern people. Indeed the larg-
er part OF the wealth of the five Sou-
thern institutions having an endow-
ment of million, was contributed
By people of the North. II is rather
humiliating to be told that the en-I
dowment Of the colleges and univer-
sitics of Massachusetts, alone exceed
the endowments of all colleges and
universities in the South, and to know
that the eight Southern states of Al
ALBANIA, Missippi, Georgia, Tennessee,
South Carolina, Florida and Virginia,
with almost forty times the area of
Massachusetts, and about four and a
half times the population, have less
wealth than the people of Massachu-
setts by $3o7,o7653o 1t seems to pay
the people of Massachusetts, to put
money into education
But the South is not going to con-
tinue this neglect. Already through
out the whole section there is an
awakened educational consciousness
which is sure to express itself in an
aggressive way. One can feel mood
of educational PROCESS in the air and
sense the determined purpose of
great and generous people to make
amends for past neglect
and failure. The all important ques-
ton is the kind of education that is
to dominate in this peiod Of develop
ment-what motive and ideals shall
control it. Shall it be Christian or a
and pagan; shall the +
South remain true to evangelical Chris I
tianity or not? That is the issue. II
Southern Methodists have set for
as their task in the move
ment, the raising Of $33,oooooo to be
used in charging and improving their "
u educational institutions. This will
,e accomplished through the Christian ~
education movement which was att
horized by the general conference of .
oI8. This supreme authority of the "
hurch directed that the entire force
# the church be focused upon this 81
movement and that no other project G.
re enterprised until its task was ac- 81
onplished. The movement is well
nder way and the outlook for all the AZ
bjective is very bright. The finan- n
ial appeal will be made during the
,eek of May ao-June S and there is
very reason to hope that the amount,
sked for will be ovcrsubscribed"