The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-01
A FEW WORDS
 ABOUT BANBA GREEN.

ABOUT BANBA GREEN.
 Miss Crozier, whose approaching visit
 to the South is matter of the greatest | public interest as well as of social sig nificance, announces elsewhere in this paper that she will receive those young ladies who wish to pursue the dramatic
 arts with a view to securing position.
 Her address is 5O9 Fifth avenue, New
 York.
 In a mineographed letter which is be- ing sent to prominent women throughout
 the South. Miss Crozier states that the terms are s6O per month. board and tui- ton, and the course will require resi- dence of from two to three months. During the past year five young wo-
 men have applied to me-" writes Miss
 Crozier. Some wanted music, some art,
 some literary work. This course will not interfere with the prosecution of any Of these lines. but looks to such prepara-
 ton as all of us need with a special view to securing work at a moderate sal
 ary along the lines upon which the
 cabin university is to be developed.
 q have a remarkable corps of assist
 ants and can give most unusual ,advan-
 tages for the price. l am determined to
 make If so inexpensive that almost any
 girl can encompass the course After ar irving in New York S70 a month will cov-
 CT all expenses and. as aforesaid, the
 student will get what the pupils of these
 expensive schools and universities arc
 failing to get: namely, practical, work
 ing knowledge of several of the home ae-
 tivities and business principles com bined''
 This training in the dramatic arts
 which Miss Crozier Is offering to young women Is in its epitome the foundation
 stone of her work at Banba Green, the little cabin university she has established in the mountains of east Tennessee. Be- yond the Banba Breen bulletins issued from time to time to prominent phian-
 thropists by the promoters of Banba Green comparatively little Is known of
 this cabin university in the rural and mountainous district of east Tennessee.
 and best of all can full and clear ap- preciation of its object be gained at cursory glance. Perhaps Joel Chandler Harris. in a recent article In the Atlanta Evening News, has in the shortest space, summed up what Miss Gro zier, through her force as an in dvidual is Illustrating at Banba
 Green In referring to Miss Crozier, ! with special reference to the significance
 of her visit South, MT. Harris writes that
 no matter how brief her visit may be, it will be helpful and stimulating to great many people who desire to make the
 most of life and its higher opportunities
 Tn her own person. says MT. Harris. Miss Crozier illustrates what may be accomplished by those who are wholly in earnest and completely devoted to help ing those who need help. Almost an in- valid. her astounding actiNity-the ver-
 satllity that she gives to her own life is stimulating merely as spectacle; though 1 am sure she would resent with all her soul the suggestion that her work
 is in the nature of a spectacle. Among her thought compelling utterances Is one
 to the effect that original sin is the lack of joy since man came Into the world,
 and out of this grows the idea that work is joy when it is well done by those who have been taught how.
 And this, moving onward. develops into
 Banba Green, the little cabin university in the mountains of Tennessee, where
 natiye-born Americans are to be taught all things, even how to enjoy new ! toy, to say nothing of the wonderful yer satility of plain corn meal water-ground.
 of course. Now, Banba Green Is very
 small affair, so small that the little cabin in which the university Is situated is to have, or has had, an addition. But an acorn is a small affair so small that the great forest of oaks, If 1t were human,
 would be able to smile at it somewhat contemptuously Nevertheless, the acorn
 is as necessary to the forest as such little beginnings as Banba Green are to the
 welfare of the native-born Anglo -Saxons who have their habitat in the mountains. Miss Crozier will win her way and carry out her desires by reason of her
 wonderful gifts, but in doing so, she
 should have the good wishes and the ac- tive help of those who know the great things for which she stands '
 The Atlanta News editorially calls att tention to MT. Harris article and says: Tt is not often that Joel Chandler Har ris comes out of his beautiful literary re- !, tirement to pay compliment or to in- dorse a movement in Atlanta.
 "For this reason the communication which he has addressed to the News to-
 day will be read with unusual pleasure
 and will give more than ordinary value and cooperation to the splendid and vi- tai work of Miss Crozier on her ap-
 preaching visit.
 "It is seldom, indeed that so rich and so
 comprehensive a tribute to a woman and her work are put in so few lines as MT. Harris pays in The News today to Miss
 Crozier and her mission, and the read ing of it will leave in the minds of the Atlanta people a pleasant impression, both
 of the gracious and gifted author and of the earnest and dauntless philosopher and altruist in whose behalf he writes"