SPARTA AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE
Sparta, Georgia

NEW ENGLAND COMMITTEE:

MR. A. M. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT
BOSTON, MASS.

MR. JOSEPH H. O'NEIL, TREAS.
BOSTON, MASS.

MR. JOHN G. WHITMAN, SECY.
BOSTON, MASS.

MR. RALPH DUNBAR, LEGAL ADVISER
BOSTON, MASS.

MR. A. J. PHILPOTT, (BOSTON GLOBE)

MR. GEORGE I. ALDEN
WORCESTER, MASS.

MISS LOUISE W. BROOKS
BOSTON, MASS.

MISS LAURA U. HEATHFIELD
BOSTON, MASS.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES:

L. S. INGRAHAM, PRINCIPAL
SPARTA, GA.

REV. E. J. FORRESTER, D.D., PRES.
SPARTA, GA.

MR. C. W. MORAN, C. S. S., TREAS.
SPARTA, GA.

MR. E. H. BARRY
SPARTA, GA.

MR. BENJ. OHLMAN,
ATLANTA, GA.

REV. H. STILES BRADLEY, D.D.
PORTLAND, ME.

MR. GEO. I. ALDEN
WORCESTER, MASS.

MR. M. W. HARRIS
PRESIDENT FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SPARTA, GA.

This school is located just one mile from the Court House on a hill overlooking the surrounding country. Every advantage is offered to young colored boys and girls for literary and industrial development.

High school advantages are offered to our young men and women who desire to fit themselves for the profession or enter college. Careful attention is given to the selection of competent teachers, well trained in Christian principles from our colleges and universities.

The aim of this institution is to fit young men and women to be useful citizens. Parents and guardians who desire to give their boys and girls every educational advantage should consult the principal for all necessary terms. There will be a chance for a few boys and girls to work out part of their expense, if they are not able to meet the requirement.

Special attention is given to Agriculture. The Smith-Hughes Board has placed with us a competent man to train the boys in Agriculture. Our Boarding Department is prepared to take both boys and girls. Board is ten dollars ($10.00) per month. Students must furnish pillow slips, sheets, and all necessary requirements for the bed and towels for their rooms.

Persons desiring to enter the Boarding Department should put in their application at once.

GIVE YOUR BOY A CHANCE

Send him here. We give a thorough training in Vocational Agriculture. The Science of farming and the latest improved methods, as well as Farm Shop Work are taught.

This training creates in the boy a love for the farm, therefore it helps to keep the boy on the farm.

Those wishing to do Smith-Hughes Work will do well to take this course.

The Sparta Agricultural and Industrial Institute has for its aim the development of the students along all lines. It is very interesting to know that the Commercial course has been added to the school and with the help and interest of the people, success will be assured. The course consists of short-hand, typing, writing and bookkeeping. Help us fit our boys and girls to cope with the business world. Send them here for competent work.

School Opens September 20, 1921

November the 29th, Thanksgiving Day

December the 25th, Christmas

H. W. HARRIS, President

B. OHLMAN, Vice-President

S. H. HOLLIS, Cashier

M. E. MORRIS, Assistant Cashier

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Lend a Hand Leaflet.

Look up and not down,
Look forward and not back,

Look out and not in,
Lend a hand.

IN HIS NAME.

Vol. XII.

BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1921.

No. 11

Lend a Hand Leaflet.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY, BY THE
LEND A HAND SOCIETY,

101 TREMONT STREET.

Founder, REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D. D.

President, REV. CHRISTOPHER R. ELIOT.

Secretary, MRS. MARTHA ADAMS LELAND.

Treasurer, MR. JAMES D. GORDON

Superintendent, MISS ANNIE F. BROWN.

Subscription per year, 25 cts.

A PROPHECY

The Twentieth Century will apply the word of the Prince of Peace to international life. The wisdom of statesmen will devise the solution which soldiers and people will accept with thankfulness. The beginning will not be made at the end of a war, but in some time of peace. The suggestion will come from one of the six great powers. It will come from a nation which has no large permanent military establishment; that is to say, it will probably come from the United States. This nation in the most friendly way will propose to the other great powers to name each one a jurist of world-wide fame, who with the other five shall form a permanent tribunal of the highest dignity. Everything will be done to give this tribunal the honor and respect of the world. As an international court it will be organized without reference to the special case under discussion. Then it will exist. Its members will prepare themselves as they choose for its great duty. Timidly, at first, and with a certain curiosity, the nations will refer to it some international question, not of large import-

ance, which has perplexed their negotiations. The tribunal will hear counsel and will decide. Their decision will be the first in the series which will mark the great victory of the Twentieth Century.

EDWARD E. HALE.

[From a sermon on "The Twentieth Century," preached in Washington in 1889.]

BROOKLINE CONFERENCE

Echoes from the Autumn Conference of Lend a Hand Clubs held on Oct. 22 last, have the same happy note—"One of the best,"—"The best ever,"—"Can we get any of the speakers for one of our meetings?"

The cordial welcome to the church by the Beacon Lend a Hand Club, and by the minister of the Beacon Universalist Church, Rev. Charles Conklin, was heart-warming, and the bountiful hospitality during the luncheon hour was greatly appreciated by the speakers, the delegates, and the officers of the Lend a Hand Society. Dr. Conklin told delightful stories in his address of welcome, making everyone feel thoroughly at home, and then he spoke of the beauty of service, of lending a hand, stating that whoever lends his heart with his hand lendeth to the Lord and truly gives himself to those helped, for "the gift without the giver is bare."

Responding to Dr. Conklin's pleasant and felicitous welcome, Mr. Eliot heartily thanked him and the hostess Club on behalf of the delegates, for the opportunity of again meeting together under such happy auspices in a Universalist Church. While the Lend a Hand Society is strictly non-sectarian, and there are Clubs in all denominations, Mr. Eliot said, we can use the word Universalist today in its largest sense and say we are all Universalists, for we have the broadest and most comprehensive service. Under all our work is religion, and our mottoes of faith, hope and love, are thoughts which inspire all denominations.

We can all unite "in the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace."

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Thirty-one Clubs were represented at both sessions by about 125 delegates, the Treasurer of the Dorothea Dix Club of Manchester, N. H., having come the greatest distance. The youngest delegate present, aged 7, was from the Mayflower Club, Marblehead, Mass., unless we except Mrs. A. T. Elliott, President of the Union Associates, who stated she was "90 years young." One of the "Original Ten," Dr. Hale's first Club, always tries to be present, and it was a pleasure to again welcome Miss Helen Kimball.

Excellent reports were given by fifteen Clubs, and reports sent by the following Clubs were read: Merry Workers Lend a Hand Club, Congregational Church, Waverley, Mass.; King's Daughters' Circle of '86, Needham, Mass., Lend a Hand Club (new), Savannah, Ga.; Lend a Hand Club of Broad Acre School, Dalton, Ga.; Jennie Dean Lend a Hand Club, of Manassas School, Manassas, Va.

The following resolution was presented to the delegates by Miss Abby S. Perry, and unanimously adopted:

## RESOLUTION

Believing that American public opinion strongly favors a continuous Limitation of Armaments by international agreement and all possible measures to prevent war, especially by cultivating international friendship and good will, the Lend a Hand Clubs assembled for their Autumn Conference welcome the Disarmament Conference to be opened on Armistice Day in Washington, earnestly hoping and praying for its success.

Copy of the above to be sent to the President and the United States delegates.

## REPORT FROM CENTRAL OFFICE

The report from the Central Office was also an earnest appeal to the Clubs for continued maintenance of various departments of the Society sorely in need of their help, with the one exception of the *Outings for Men*, which at present has a balance of $404.96 to its credit, though 39 people have been sent for vacations or convalescent care during the summer months.

The special needs are:

1. New annual subscribers of $1 or more. The Society will have a considerable deficit on Dec. 1. Clubs should remember the vote passed at

last annual meeting to obtain "1000 new subscribers of $1 each by May 1, 1922!" Lexington Sr. Club holds the banner.

II. *Layettes.* This is an S. O. S. call from Social Service Dept., Boston City Hospital: "Speed up work for these destitute little ones, fairy-god-mother!"

III. *Dr. Grenfell's* S. O. S. call in July for clothing for men and boys was answered by five Clubs and a few individuals with 184 garments. Knitted articles of all kinds are solicited, besides all varieties and sizes of warm clothing.

IV. *Knitting.* Socks, sweaters, mufflers, helmets, wristers, are also needed for the Boston Seamen's Friend Society, Merchant Marines, St. Mary's House for Sailors. Keep your trained hands busy for these men, and teach the children to knit the simple things.

V. *Codfish Sale.* The Marlboro Club has sold 100 pounds for the suffering people in Newfoundland, and Mr. Wm. Willard Howard, 70 Fifth Ave., New York, writes of other sales through September LEAFLET notice. Please report sales to Central Office, and let them be many.

VI. *Seeing Fund* for ten or twelve needy women, has a deficit of $97.55. Two friends who helped this Fund have died. The Clubs and individual friends are urged to donate to this department which helps these women to *earn* a pittance by making Children's Hospital garments sent us, thus saving them from want, and from loss of self-respect.

VII. *Children's Book Week*, from Nov. 13 to 19, was referred to, explanatory literature distributed, and Clubs asked to take an active part in the WEEK.

VIII. *Lend a Hand Book Mission.* 25,000 books promised in the Southland last Spring. Since May, 5379 have been sent, 2281 being new. There is a deficit of $443. This must be made up, and three times as much contributed for new children's books. Every dollar spared from your purses, and every book from your shelves will answer the constant cry for "more books, more education, more opportunity."

IX. *Three New Clubs* were announced: Jennie Dean Club, Manassas Industrial School, Manassas, Va.; Lend

a Hand Club, Broad Acre School, Dalton, Ga.; Lend a Hand Club, Savannah, Ga. This last Club has joined the Society. Form new Clubs!

## NEAR EAST APPEAL

Mr. Herbert L. Willard, Jr., of the Near East Relief, formerly instructor in Beirut College, made a thrilling appeal for continued support for the orphans. Mr. Willard brought information from the Near East Commission recently returned. He will gladly address Clubs and show an attractive motion picture, on request, without expense.

One of his stories was of the visit of the Commission to a town where 25,000 children were seen in one orphanage. Two children led the singing of "America." They had on suits made of "Gold Medal" flour bags, thus every bit of America's gift being used. While watching these children, a little boy appeared who had not gotten in to the orphanage. In filthy rags, covered with vermin, and emaciated body, he was a pitiful sight. The two leaders of the singing saw him and cried, "Let's take him!" The answer came, "We can't, there isn't room" One of the girls urged, "We will make room for him between us" (on the cobble-stone floor) "and we will share our bread." And they took the starving boy back with them to the orphanage.

The Commission went into the orphanage and saw the children *learning to play*—25,000 of them with no people, many of whom they saw killed, or die of starvation. They saw the ragged, emaciated boy taken up to the table and shown what to do with a cup of milk, for he had never seen it. Such children are the hope of the Near East. It is for them that the Relief Fund is used.

The flour sacks are not going to be warm enough for this winter, and the clothing collection of last spring will help them. More clothing, more flour are needed, and the expenses of these orphanages must be met. All the children cried out to the Commission when leaving, "Take us back with you!" The Commission is saying to you—"These boys and girls owe their lives to you. American money and American people have saved them. When you make your next effort for funds, will you not remember these

children, who are stretching out their hands to you, that they may be the future men and women of their land?"

Dear Clubs, can we not make a Thanksgiving and Christmas donation? Let us duplicate, at least, the $500 sent last year!

## AFTERNOON SESSION

The speakers at the afternoon session were Mr. Linton S. Ingraham, Founder and Principal of the Agricultural and Industrial School, of Sparta, Georgia; Mrs. Eleanor Roulston, the Sailors' Mother, of Boston Seamen's Friend Society; Hon. Frederick P. Cabot, Judge of Juvenile Court, Boston. Most engaging and enlightening were the addresses, but our little sheet affords no space to report them well.

## MR. INGRAHAM

Mr. Ingraham told something of his life story which began in slavery days and is ending in devotion to educating the colored boys and girls in and near Sparta, his school being on the site of his boyhood home. He spoke of the opportunity for an education given him by his master, Mr. Alexander Stevens, which finally took him to Atlanta University and to Harvard Summer School, and of the long years of hard work on the farm in the intervening years. His dream was at last realized through the generosity of many northern and some southern friends, and a substantial cement school building, well equipped, has taken the place of the original little log-cabin. There are now 200 pupils, and eight teachers. Great need exists for a dormitory for the pupils coming from more distant points, for farming implements, etc. Mr. Ingraham spoke of the increasing demand for education, and of the obstacles in the way, such as poverty, the employment of the children in the fields, of the failure of the crops through the boll-weevil, drought, etc., and of the non-enforcement of the compulsory school laws. Mr. Ingraham is endeavoring to surmount these difficulties by raising funds in conjunction with his Boston Committee, of which Mr. Joseph H. O'Neil, Federal Trust Co., is Treasurer. The collection taken for the school at the Conference amounted to $34.

## MRS. ROULSTON

In Mrs. Roulston's opening remarks she stated that the Boston Seamen's

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Friend Society is one hundred years old, and that she had worked with its Woman's Department for twenty years. She personally knows men in every state of the Union who are living happy, sober lives today as the result of this work. She spoke of the delightful musicale or other entertainment provided every Tuesday evening for the men, who are thus kept happy and safe, and stated that volunteer entertainers will be appreciated.

Inviting her audience to "play" they were sailors at the Sailors' Rest, she talked with Myrton Reed on the platform (delegate from the Boys' Brotherhood Club, of Cambridge) as to his needs before he left on his ship, dressed him up in knitted articles, equipped him with sewing kit, medical supplies, and explained their use. By this unique and entertaining method, Mrs. Roulston's audience learned how they could lend a hand to these sailor lads, often no older than fourteen years. A book or magazine was added to the "little shipmate's" bag (not to mention the rosiest apple) for he must get new ideas, new stories and some enlightenment when out on the bounding billows, to vary the monotony. The Book Mission has sent considerable literature to the Sailors' Rest, and Mrs. Roulston expressed her appreciation.

Myrton was warned not to touch or taste whiskey, and was told of the men now captains of ships, entrusted with the lives of thousands of travelers, who had been redeemed through the friendliness and Christian teaching of the Seamen's Friend, where Mrs. Roulston takes the place of their mothers. She told pathetic and heroic stories of the boys who had served their country during the war, many of whom had never returned, but were brave and faithful unto death.

## JUDGE CABOT

The "friend and adviser" of the boys and girls who meet the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Boston put many direct questions to his audience. Some of them were: Is your idea of a judge that the court lends a hand? Do you feel that the court is the place for your boy or girl? If a boy is sick, you call the doctor and give him a hand. Why shouldn't you feel that way about the court? What is the court for? What

are your theories about punishment? Do you think all boys and girls should be treated alike?

When these boys and girls appear before the court, something has broken down. It may be an accidental breaking down, and then the problem is simple. It may be more serious, then the problem is important. When the father and mother, the church, school, and organizations have failed, then they come to the court and say that the Commonwealth, represented by its judge, must act. The judge is told he must proceed as a wise parent. How many wise parents do you know? How is he going to do it, and how is he going to act when he sees the boy or girl for the first time? First, the probation officer must give all the information possible. Then information is obtained from all the organizations that have had to do with the child. The judge must know whether the child is well or sick; whether his offence is due to starvation; what kind of a mind he has; whether or not he is normal; what the emotional life is.

The court deals with two classes,— the boy or girl who has committed an offence against the city, and the parent who has not given the child the opportunity he is entitled to. Once determined that it is a proper case for the court's action, then the court may leave the child in his own home surroundings, place him in new surroundings, or ask the State to place him in a permanent home away from his parents. The speaker enlarged upon these difficult problems, citing many interesting stories to illustrate them. He referred to the great advantage of the Boston Juvenile Court in the "Foundation" provided by Judge Baker.

Another important question asked was,—Do any of you think of your great responsibilities in standards? You have not proper places for these boys and girls, who must be placed wisely, if you have wrong standards of dress, paint and powder, shoes; about wrong recreation, reading, movies, automobiles, etc.

Dr. Cabot appealed for the same faith in human nature that the probation officers have in dealing with offenders, and closed by quoting Emerson's statement that the noblest work in the world is the "up-building of a human being."