The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-03-01
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q MASHISGT8S, d Ct. Mar. e.
There has long been a popular i'm
preston that the president is the lone
Hest man in Washington several
OCCUPANTS OF the White House have
expressed sllemse Gives to that effect,
among others President Wilson, WHO.
4 mas said mat the president is the lone
lee man In the country. Bat 1t has
remained for ice President Marshall
to state the nasit lion or the vice presi-
dent, par fcularlS at sucf trying times
as these in the Senate, when factions
arise oyet. night, and even the august
ssenators are suspicious OF the motives
of hcii. bosom friends.
81 am the icneliest man in thu whole
world, said The vice president recent
IL. When asked as 10 his opinion con-
ceFnsRs what Mould be done with the
ship purchase bill II cannot get ar
Opin;o From any one The RePubIi-3
cans arc suspicious or me and stop
talking when cone around paei
Democrats Mil not tell me thing
because I am not a senator. I can not
even mingle With the hoiters. Which
.is, one must confess, a sad and serious
situat ton for any one OF the aniab1e.5
afhliating disposition of Tommy y
Marshall. When even the outcast re-
icalritrant Democrats refuse to talk
there is, indeed little hope OF getting
inside information from any senator
nal sources.
The back Yard or eight states Was
\ the terse and descriptive name given
to that region running through the
Southern alas.lians where 3. 0C0 "a
900 mountaineers. descendants OF the
original pioneer stock of the nation
are isolated with practically little op-
portunity to secure any of the ciylli-
aztion OF the outside Bortd-in fact
knowing SO little of present day con
ditious. that until they are aroused
by someone from the outside, not even
desiring any change.
The phrase was coined by DIR. Frost. 4
presid ent of the Berea College in Ken
lucky, at q meeting neId ait Contenen-
tai NJ emeria1 Hall last week. to in-4
terest the public at large in the work
/ Of aronsing educat ional interest in the
mountaineers OF the Appalacflians.
Part OF this territory is West Vir-
ginia's back yard How large a
consider until a meeting like this
arouses their Interest. The meeting
was quite the NEST interesting Of any
K in NashiHg ton during the last week
and was participated in by Justice
Charles z. Hughes. who presided !;
William Goadell Frost. president of
Rerea: Frederick G Banser. Pl1. d..
an educational expert frem Columbia
! University: Hamilton Wright Mab;e,
editor of the Outlook; and President
Woodrow Wilson Among the namea
of prominent senators who were on
the committee on invitation were SEN
sator William u. Chiffon. and Senat tor
Johnson u, Camden OF Kentucky.
An explanation ef Berea's5 task and
program to meet the super-rura1'
the very special educational adapta-
tons and uecessities. which IL, & work.
dema nds:: n extremely interesting
and helpful address by the president,
who announced that he appeared as a
citizen interested IN this great work,
and not as the president of the Uui-
ted states; wonderfully en1iglten-
ing description by Hamilton Wright
Nahie of the inhabitants of these iso-
! lated val, eEs. I: 8 e0o.B 900 Americans OF
/ Scotch and English lineage Eisorous,
prolific andEot large promise. also the
traeipS OF their ehaIac lie traits
TO snrnivals Of Colonial time csc
We're tsle feature s of one OF he most
|; wonderful of the sn1eetis,gs held IN the
! interest Of this institution OF the
South. Probably the West Nirginians
Who knens more OF the conditions in
the West Virginia sections of the Az
Apela cbians8 was the Rev. DR.. Hunrbl e.
| formerly of FarkersbuTg Who took
an active interest I'M; the work. and:
whose aeata interrupted the publ lea.
ition Of a most interestt1g and sfSfn-
structixe book on the people Of this
lre7ior.
Bishop G Gorge w. Peterkin has also
taken an active interest in ne work.
but 4 DR. III unfble, who had devoted
almost his whole life to the study
OF Che needs of these nlountaineerss
| and who spent almost his entire time
during the years be fore his death III
the southern West GINA nlpu rtairs;,
has probably done more TO arouse IN
West Nnsmian
Nest Nirg inians. viii watch witi1Si in !.
sIterest the new sta for the flag which
a has been proposed through the action
iyof the legislature ofthe state Of Wash
iington. asking tia + there be created
from the eastern cnunt les OF shinS Z
ton. aud that no rtlfern prof ction Of
Idaho called ".the Farmland le.. a new
commonwealth TO he lied the state
/ of Lincoln: The nam q has been We'll
chosen II the project has any chance
of mat 1izins. ss As Il ssS
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