The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-10-16
Ask OPPORTUNITY
TO PAY THEIR WAY
Boys and Girls clamorine fsr places
70 Make Expenses While Learning.
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Girls and the Coley -Biacksher yoea
tionai School for Boys are doing actual
industrial work IN addition to the reg
s ular state requirements in the literary
tceurse This IS what distinguishes
them from other schools and makes
them popular with the people without
these features there would be no need
TOR them. Students are clamoring FOR
places which VIII enable them 10 nav
their expenses BY working Very Few
boys or girls are applying for free
scholarships, preferring to retain their
independence, but there are scores who
are asking for opportunities TO work
and pay their way In school. we can
not meet these requests since we are
limited IN equipment. not having rnoa-
ey with which 70 install the various In
oustrial features for this purpose. At
the Downing school. among other
things We need a canning outfit, d good
laundry and machinery for making
candy
! At the boys school we need farming
implements. a dairy, a manual training
/ outfit carpenters tools and wire for
/ fencing both the yards and the planta-
ton. We need more room and furniture
Before I began the Downing Indus
trial school I believed, and believe yet.
that men Of money are Wiling to con-
tribute TO worthy causes provided
their gifts are well handed and reach
the end for which they ARE intended, /
/ believe shat rich men would be very
much disappointed If no one ever
1 asked them for anything Indeed, they
would be lonesome.
The Downing Industrial school has
been running Tor IS years. though at
the beginning many doubted the need
OF Il and questioned It's success. 1t has
proved Its rightful place. has demons
/, tTated its work as being unique and
Is commended BY d vast majority OF
the best thinking people who know It's
work
The Martha Berry school. at Rome
Ca. has been in operation for about 20
years and has succeeded beyond any
thing we can hope under present con
ditions; DIR. Beckham In Virginia has
been doing a Ike work for only a few
years, and having his church back
or him, has succeeded marvelously and
beyond us; the Mont Verde school. at
Mont Verde, Fla. has been at work
enly q few years but has gone far be-
JQAQ rs wv nave AEkti0tASbANeCQ tic
need and efficiency Of the plan, and
what is of much greater importance,
educated scores of worthy girls and
lifted the girls of limited means and
placed them where they are making
good and becoming mighty factors in
this great commonwealth.
Vow, why do the people not respond |
to this worthy cause and put money /
where It viii yield such abundant re-
eurns? Some say that the small schools
sooner or later die out. Such will not
be the case If they meet the needs OF
the people. The Downing has been in /
operation for is years and is growing
all the time Is that not sufficient time
to keep a school on trial?
The boys school at Hadley is just on
its first feet. we opened doors on the
9th Of September and 10 of the no.
blest boys of Alabama, enrolled. As
bravely as ever a boy shouldered gun
in defense or country, or as heroically
as he ever answered his ccuntry's call
to arms. or marched to the drum beat
to war, our boys have volunteered to q
work of life. They are here for any
service-at the cook pots, in the din
ing room work, at the carpenters
bench, or anywhere else that they may
obtain work to enable them to secure
for themselves an education. They are
here in privations, in unfinished rooms.
with few conveniences, but without
complaint, showing the mettie Of which
they are made, forging to the front,
where they viii become prominent IN
the affairs Of the state. We have
farmers, mechanics, nachinists and
five young ministers Of the gospel Of
Christ.
There IS now an excellent opportun-
itv for unlimited service for fev men
of large purses or for many of smaller
revenue. The plan for the Goley- Black
sher school includes Il brick buildings.
The soil is adapted to brick making
and the boys are ready for work These
students will give their services at a
cheaper rate than regular masons, and
too, will be having the employment
that win enable them to secure an edu-
Gallon. Not only can they make brick,
but work as carpenters. This must APP
peal 10 reasonable men as an excellent
plan Of mutual benefit to the students
and the building committee.
Now. since men have been 50 gener-
Gus as to give 2i2o acres of land, three
cars OF lumber, nails. oil and money
and the men Of the community have
contributed so much IN hard work TO
erect the buildings and are giving daily
of their produce to assist in the main
tennnce OF the schooE will not others
come to cur help in some of the things
- much needed now and have a part
IN the great school which this IS des-
tined 10 become-one Of the great in
stitutions OF the south7 II
o good people Of this great land OF
ours. the teachers and l are willing to
die By the cause. a1y head Is already
white, and l am proud Of il. as Il is
the marked output of the best IN me
for the best purpose IN the world But
some of us would enjoy living a little
longer to see the results Of an earnest
effort to make permanent the mighty
project to help in the cause for which
...- .ev,5v,,o,. ord sd his life.