The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-06-04

dents are always ready TO come into
the schools for poorer students;
while the poorer families are cut
OF and forgotten. Berea has the
proud record that in thirty years we
have not raised the price Of educa-
ton 10 our students.
Fifth, Bcrea must meet the special
needs Of the great mountain region
Of the South. This Is the region OF
largest promise TO the patriot and
the Christian statesman.
Ride with me through Narrow Gap,
and down Red Lick. or up the Ows-
ley Fork; turn into q sequestered
valley. Here you will find a dozen
families shut OF by themselves into
a little OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. In
every house there is large family.
Grandparents, widows, and orphans
are bestowed among their kinsfolk.
Women may be seen in the great
out doors, washing, making soap, or
hoeing corn: and both men and wo-
men spend long hours in idleness,
sitting on the porches those lovely
porches hung with saddles, gourds,
and strings of red peppers. The
schoolhouse is a poor affair. Bap-
lists and RcfOrmers both are nOrated
TO hold services there once a month.
There was Sunday school for two
months summer before last which
died for lack Of teachers. Attend
ancc at the day school is poor fifty
children in the district. thirty en-
rolled, and seventeen in attendance.
Everybody has good manners.
There are old women who can dis
course real wisdom by the fireside.
And there are old soldiers who can
show the education they received
in marching with sherman TO the
sea. Young men and young women
are modest. The children are shy
but watchful and bright. You feel
perfectly certain that il there were
the right kind 81 teacher in that day
school, or a good superintendent in
that Sunday School, the whole val
ley could be formed into a model
community. and that in every gen.
Grafton we might expect one or two
men to come out from those homes
Ia make a mark in the world.
Now this imaginary valley is a
type OF mountain life through parts
Of eight great states. There must be
10000 such valleys. In the next few
years they will all be changed.
some for the better and some for the
worse. And II is largely for Berea
TO say how many will be changed
for the better.
Let us step outside the mountains
for moment and see how things
are going in our country as a whole.
The biggest fact about America TO-
day is that il will not longer be held
by Americans. Other nations will
come IN. The signboards on the
streets Of Boston and Chicago are in
Hebrew, Russian, Greek, and dozen
other unknown tongues. And the
great educational advantages OF
America are IN the cities, where
they are eagerly graspcd by these
foreigners, SO that American chill
dren are not only outnumbered but
put To the rear in education. In the
city OF Cambridge. the seat Of Har-
ward University, the Catholics con-
troll the city library and shut out the
life of Cavour, the great Italian pa
triot, and all other patriots opposed
to the Catholic church. Americans
are being submerged in their own
America.
All this makes these mountain val
legs more interesting. They are the
hope for the dominance OF an Amer
lean element in our country.
Now Berea has a program for these
valleys. We wish TO send the right {
kind OF a schoolmaster 10 every one
of them.
Those ten thousand valleys must
he redeemed for our country and for
Christ. We all know how Scotland
has been the salvation OF the Old
World. Great Britain stood for the
Protestant religion and the backbone
OF Great Britain was Old Scotland.
In our mountain country we have
two Sc0tlands.
My young friends OF the gradua-
ting classes, this is your last lesson
from Berea, We charge you TO do
your duty TO your Alma Mater and
To your country. DO not be afraid
to serve God fully.
This is the development OF many
a young man or woman: first they
are sluggish and foolish; and then
they are awakened 10 some selfish
ann, they come TO school perhaps
simply TO get training 80 that they
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