The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-11-12

ent nation in the world, she needs ev
cry citizen trained and ready to do hi
part. She needs him in her commerce
industry and agricultural development
She needs leaders in every activity
she needs engineers, builders, con
structors in everything. She need,
brave, adventuresome workers. She
needs men of the spirit who came
South with Daniel Boone and his
friends Galloway and Henderson, tC
blaze the trail of civilization before
| the Revolution. She has a popula-
ton representing all of these quail
ties in her pure looded Anglo-SaX-
on people of the mountains and she
is letting them stagnate, retrograde
and go unused-an element represent
ing an incalculable asset to her.
But these mountain people are so
hard to reach" Yes, that is true,
but they are not any harder to reach
and not so far away as the Oriental
brother with whom we have dealt so
patiently now for many years. That
we have succeeded there should en-
courage US to face the problem here.
went not long ago to hear a young
from China speak. He
was learned, eloquent, and his earnest
ness was beautiful. His address rang
with enthusiasm over the virtues Of
the Chinese under the influence of the
workers we have sent
there, and he continually held up for
edification the superior principles Of
the Chinese in many of their rea-
tons compared to those of our peo-
PIE.
"The Chinese are naturally temper
lte," he stated. "They have wiped
out opium in their native communi-
ties. 1t is sold now only in the prov
noes where the foreigner, the Eng
fish and the Americans, are in power
and sell it."
"Then why, 0 why" felt like cry
ng out, "do you not stay at home
and take the gospel and the textbook
and the doctor and the medicine to our
2wn people, who need it and whom
we Northumberland? ?"
Yet with all of this indifference in
act. there is no subject which more
holds the sentimental interest of the
Southerners themselves than the
l have heard many eloquent men of
The Southern states refer to the pure
Dlooded Anglo-SaXOn element in our
regions and plead for their
yet these voices have not
been many enough nor strong enough
to get laws passed in all the South
ern states to protect the child of the
against illiteracy.
At the many educational confer
cnces | have attended in the interest
Of education in the South | have al
ways noted that when the mountain
people were mentioned, audiences lis
tened as if delightful romance were
being rehearSed.
Particularly impressive was this
fact in Nashville several years ago,
when on the program promoting the
interest of the various departments Of
in the South, men leaders
spoke. The late Robert C. Ogden
presided st. Clair McKelway, vet
eran editor of the Brooklyn Eagle,
spoke on Teaching Teachers to
Teach" pleading for trained men and
to 90 among all elements Of
ceople to teach. Edward Anderson
Alderman, of the University of Vir-
ginia, was eloquent in his presenta-
ion of the theme. "Thc Democracy
IF Education" Hon. David Hous-
on, now Secretary of Agriculture,
Hearty outlined the duty of the South
.oward her rural people, and DR.. Wal
er Page, now Ambassador to Great
5ritain. spoke on "The Farmers Cred
IT, The audiences were most APP.
,reciative, but when a Kentucky wo-
nan, Cora Stewart, took her place
where these men had spoken, and told
he story as she knew it of the moon
light Schools in the mountains OF
kentucky, the audience was thrilled
The university president, the rural
chool-teachers, the school children
md citizens at large melted into SYM
pathetic silence when they heard her
intense with human inter-
st, and heard her ask in an impas-
toned voice: did any one of you ev
II have an aged mother come to yol