The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-09-05
Discoveries in Education
Continued from Firs, Page

known and too frequently misunder-
stood or even misrepresented. The
fact is that every part of the coun-
try is misunderstood and misrepre-
sented. We here do not understand
altogether either the greatness or the
sinfulness Of our large cities. Every
man who can travel from one part
of the country tn another and tell
the truth is doing good. | shall say
here today the things which have
said in Cincinnati, Chicago and New
York. think can claim that have
not spoken in vain in those cities.
Twenty years ago young man going
to Cincinnati and saying, Il am from
the mountains of Kentucky" would
have met with small consideration.
Today, partly thru my efforts we
are so much better understood there
that any young man who comes from
our mountains has q better recogni-
ton than one coming from Other
parts of the state
The Mountains a Good Place to be
Born in
First Of all our mountains are
good place to be born in. God has
given us pure air, the glorious forests,
and the sweet country homes which
form the best cradles for any chill.
1t is in homes like ours that a large
proportion of the great men of the
world have been born, and while the
country homes in other parts of
the United States have been growing
fewer and less sweet and wholesome,
the country homes in our mountains
have been growing more numerous
and better.
The Mountain People of Good Ances-
try
And the mountain people come Ct
good stock and ancestry. This has
often been ruthlessly disputed A
few vars ago one of Kentucky's
senators was quoted in New YORK
City as saying that the people Ct
our mountains were descended from
criminals and escaped renegades. j
knew this was far from the truth.
| took time TO visit the great Con-
gressional Library in Washington and
make some investigations as to the
records Of things. 1 found a report !
which was made to the United States /
Senate in the year 1894 on the SUB
ject of revolutionary pensions. There |
was list of all the families which |
we're then receiving pensions in r. /
cognition of services rendered by /
soldiers in Washington's army. The .
list specified the soldiers name,
the state from which he served, and .
the place where he or his descend I
ants were then living. Ladies and .
/ found that nearly five .
hundred of these revolutionary pen
sioners were then living in the
8parcely settled mountain counties Of
That was a noble roll Ct
honor. In that list which contained
the names that are the pride and
honor of our mountain country To-
day were the following: Cawood,
Shackleford, Hall, Green, Click, Ham
mon, Woodson, McHargue, Burns
benge and all the rest.
And these families who had sons
and fathers in Washingtons army
came from good places in the old
world. Many Of them were descend
I'd from the Scotch convenanters.
others came from the southwest part
# England. The name Bristol in
East Tennessee was brought from
Bristol in old England. They. were
talwart, honorable, progressive, re-
igious, God fearing, patriotic peO-
DE.
Now believe in breeds. Good
took is better than poor stock in
'igs and horses, and II is, too, IN
'uman beings. The boy or girl who
las a great grandfather and a great ]
who feared God and 7
wrought righteousness has a better a
tart in life, is full OF nobler I
and larger incentives than 4
ne who is not blessed with such 5
eritage, 8