The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-10-28

time. A business college," or q
private finishing school," simply
aims TO take the students who can
pay and fl them TO get on in the
world as individuals. But a state in
stitution, or a Christian college ought
TO know that IL has an altrustic, q
sociological duty to the whole COM
munity.
Now, we professed educators in
these states are not getting on with
our job. When the states Of our
Union are ranked educationally, APP
praised as to our success In making
each child of the commonwealth
sharer in the light of this twentieth
century, our states all rank down In
the forties. We have been so long
at the tail of the procession that we
are hardened to IL. We do q little
for the upper crust, but we do not
lift society from the bottom. Pro-
fessor Spalding, of Yale, confirms my
statement that Of our select young
soldiers sent to France one in four
was unable to really read. And he
further says that only two and one
half percent of the boys and girls Of
our country are now in reach Of
good high school education.
Let us start a revival here today.
We must not be content with a re-
spectacle jog-trot, just "doing good"
God and our country call for the
maximum good, the sufficient good.
Berea's resources are all pledged
to this enterprise of reaching this
most neglected, disadvantaged, hope
full part of America. We are ri
walls Of no other institution. Any
student who can go to some nearby
school, we advise to go there. Any
who can pay the price at a Christian
college or State university, we urge
to go there. But less than five per-
cent can by any possibility reach
these institutions. Berea is after the
ninety-five percent of the mountain
boys and girls for whom it is Berea
or stay at home. We have touched
half the mountain counties, and in a
quarter of them we have now little
armies Of graduates and former stu
dents at work for local betterment.
But all Of us together should in
crease our output of graduates who
will be community builders ten fold.
(Others do not county We ought
; to adopt emergency measures,
and set definite goal. Our
British cousins have set five years
for bringing to pass prohibition. We
must allow more time for our
task. We must wait for children To
grow up. But by the time President
Hutchins completes his administra-
ton twenty-one years from now, we
can transform this region, and the
mountains, instead Of being behind
> shall be like Switzerland and Scotland
in the old world, at the front.
How many persons here today wish
to pledge themselves to make it a
matter Of prayer and of expectant
effort to bring to pass the abolition
of all excess of lawlessness, and pow
erty, and illiteracy in these mountains
by 1941? Several hundred rose).
So we have been telling some OF
the reasons why Hutchins loves Berea
Now for some reasons why Beres
loves Hutchins.
To begin with, we greatly admire
his mental powers, the intellectual
gifts that God bestowed upon him
, This is something much higher thar
learning. He knows as much as any
of us, but there is something more
Whatever subject is under discussion
he is one Of the first to get to the
heart Of the matter. He can dis.
tinguish between things that differ
and give a reason for an action OF
, belief.
And then we love him as a friend
Of the people. There are two kinds
of men who are friends to the people
the Lincoln kind. who were born in
the log cabin, and the Roosevelt kind
who spend much time in the log-cabir
from choice. Hutchins is Of the
Roosevelt kind. He was born in the
city and never needed to set foot of
the carpet or sidewalk. But the
mountains have drawn him. He car
sit down by the mountain fireside, he
can find a companion in the lonely
horseman, he can find the heart Of
the shy boy or girl from the back
woods.
But, above all, we see IN him that
unselhsh, sympathetic, Christ-like
character in which we can put OIL
trust. With him at the head, every
body will know that Berea College ID
conducted unselfishly, for the upbuild-