The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1918-09-05
BEREAS PART IN THE ILLIT-
EBACY FIGHT
BY Everett Dix

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Delea is i'm thc fight against IL
hterucy In the intensive campaign
which began July the FIRST Bcrea
workers have rendered valiant ser
vice. Berca set au example To- her
sister Institutions by supplement-
ing, for amy of her workers who
would take up the work Of county
illilcracy agent One modest stipend
paid by the state 10 was late when
this opportunity for service was
brought before Berca workers and
most of them had made their plans
for the summer -Four of them
answered the GALA. ~ May for
Magomu County, Howard Whitaker
for Harlan, Leila Jane Harris for
Carter, Eta L. Moore for Rock
castle. Il is gratifying TO state that
of the sixty-four agents i'm the field,
these four are among the best.
Mr. May has fairly set Magoflin
ON fire. Every district in the coun-
ty has its moonlight schools. There
are ciehty-iive. People are report
ed as following him from place to
place seeking help and inspiration
for the work of sweeping out Tilt
eracy. Bankers, merchants, county
officials, farmers, teachers,-the
County is stirred 10 its depths-are
outdoing each other in working for
the success Of the campaign.
The best report in all to me, ~
writes Mr.. May us that the County,
whether in moonlight schools or
not. is learning TO read and write.
/ Everybody is trying. / am graft
fed. The calls are greater than can
be met VIII do all | can. | hope
TO be remembered as the Moonlight
Mantle man who started old Ma
coffin to thinking and started her
TO action"
Miss Leila Jane Harris found in
Carter a county that had previously
discouraged moonlight school prop
uganda. They had failed 10 under
stand the possibilities of the work
and the teachers had once voted to
have no moonlight schools. Miss
Harris succeeded in presenting it 10
their minds in a new light. Seventy
teachers volunteered to teach moon
light schools. Reports from our
field agent who visited the county
and from other visitors from out in
the state give Miss Harris the great.
est credit and pay her the highest
of compliments. am confident
that final reports from Carter will
confirm in actual figures the inn
portance Of the work Miss Harri:
has done there.
Miss Eta Moore is one of the few
county agents | personally visited
in the field during the campaign
She had been working so quietly
and so unobtrusively that we were
not fully satisfied that the worl
was going forward in ROckcastle az
we had hoped. Our fears were dis
PEELED, The county was found to BIZ
well organized, superintendent
teachers, county officials and pub
lie spirited citizens cooperating
with Miss Moore in the most pleas
ing manner. There was a quieI
business-like air about things tina
foretold success.
| Mr.. Howard Whitaker is doins
great work in Harlan County. Har.
Ian is picturesque. Whitaker Il
doing a picturesque work there. Hi
reports appearing in the Moon.
lighter. our little paper, have beer
full Of interesting things. He mar.
ried since going 10 Harlan. Hi
work has done credit both to Berei
and the Illiteracy Commission.
As the Berea workers leave theil
respective fields and come back d
the work that is regularly theirs
il is gratifying TO know that the,
have performed an extra servic'
and have had a part in one more
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