Evening star., 1942-06-25
Fund Of Two Sisters
Premises New Deal
For African PEOPLES
The Misses Stokes
Benefoetion Anticipates
Defeat Of Axis
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
The philanthropic idealism Of two
Washington women long dead may
result in a complete new deal" for
the people Of Africa following the
eventual victory Of the United Ma
tions over the Axis powers.
A national committee Of scholars
well acquainted with the problems
Of Africa has been organized to
work out the altruistic philosophy
represented by Caroline and Olivia
Egleston Phelps Stokes when many
years ago they established the So
called Phelps Stokes Fund for the
study OF issues involving the Negro
race.
The Misses Stokes were sisters
who shared a lifelong labor in be-
half Of the underprivileged masses.
Daughters of James Boulter Stokes
and Caroline Phelps Stokes. they
inherited vast wealth, only to de-
vote their financial resources to
charitable ends. How many mil
lions OF dollars they gave to va
rious' good causes nobody knows in
detail, but it is matter of history
that they endowed churches,
schools, libraries, missionary enter
prises, hospitals. clinics and many
individual activities in the fields of
religion, sociology, medicine and
education.
Last Died in 1927.
Caroline, born in 1854 on a farm
IN what later became part of the
upper East Side of New York, was
the younger of the two. She died at
Redlands, Calf, April 26, 1909.
Olivia, born in 1847, survived until
December IA. 1927. Her home, at
the time of her death, was at 1923
Rhode Island avenue NV.
The task started by the Misses
Stokes has been carried on prin-
cipally by their nephew, the Rev.
DR.. Anson Phelps Stokes, secre-
tary of Yale University from 1899
to 1921 and canon reSidentiary at
Washington Cathedral from 1924 to
1899. AS president of the Phelps
Stokes Fund and chairman Of its
Educational Committee, he recently
has assumed leadership in the de-
velopment of body known as the
Committee on Africa, the War and
Peace Aims.
His associates include DR.. Ray
mond Leslie Buell., former presi-
dent OF the Foreign Policy Associa-
ton; DR.. Ralph J. Bunche. Howard
University; Jackson Davis, General
Education Board; j. Merle Davis,
international Missionary Council;
DR.. w. E. B. Du Bois, Atlanta Uni
versity: DR.. George E. Haynes, Fed
eral Council of Churches: DR..
Charles S. Johnson, Fisk University:
DR.. Frederick P. Keppel, former
president of the Carnegie Corp;
Father J. P. Lucey, Duquesne Uni
versity; DR.. Robert S. McClenahan,
American University at Cairo; DR..
Emory Ross, Foreign Missions Con-
ference of North America; DR..
Homer Leroy Shantz, Agriculture
Department.; Huntington Gilchrist
and Prof. Benjamin Gerig, Interna-
tional Mandates Section Of the
League Of Nations, and DR.. Thomas
Jesse Jones.
Cites Peril In Axis Victory.
A 180-page report Of the first six
months of the committees activity
was released Tuesday. 1t stresses
the grave danger to Africa in case
OF an Axis victory and makes a
series of recommendations fore
casting "the vital importance Of
giving more Africans q thorough
education, so that they can take
more effective places in agriculture,
industry and government; the neces-
sity for a land policy that will as
sure to the native population enough
land of good quality for all its needs;
the imperative necessity for attack
ing the problem Of native poverty
all along the line and the impor-
tance of giving Africans an increas-
ing share in their own government"
Specifically, DR.. Stokes group de-
elares for "the admission of quail
fed Africans to all branches of the
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