Mountain advocate., 1921-10-07
THE NEW KENTUCKY HOME
OR
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
KENTUCKY

uhy uibHb ny ETOi. " Ns bhiuNih,
who taught the Smoky School last
year. This lecture was severe
treatment OF Kentucky politics, Ken
tucky administration OF justice and
Kentucky religion. Nothing like Il
has ever been given before that we
are aware of.
While the strong array OF facts
brought by Prof. Baldwin to indict
the Old Kentucky Heme are known
and read of all men, the phrascology
Of the lecture was peculiarly Bald
winecque.
He is a forceful speaker. full OF
earnestness and eloquence. He is
in a class by himself as an orator.
He initiates no one. and singularly
enough no one can initiate him.
The Court House Auditorium was
filled to overlooking with people
eager TO hear this gifte on of Ken
lucky tell whats the Matter with
Kentucky?"
/
speaker said It must have believed
that Kentucky is mighty sick at the
present time and needs a remedy
forthwith or little sooner.
Re said that Kentucky had practi-
cally no roads and that roads are the
foundation of civilization; that with
out a foundation it is impossible
to build an enduring structure.
He said that Kentucky's school
system places her forty-second from
the top in the matter of education,
iGnd because Of this low educational
status we are very ignorant people.
! He said that ignorance was the
parent OF three bantlings more re-
pulsive than itself. These three
daughters of Ignorance are called
Poverty, Crime and Disease.
| He said We were poor because Of
roads---or rather because Of our i'm
passible mud holes that we call our
re ads-and because OF our ignorance
To illustrate, he said that Lenoir. N.
c., with about the same population
+ had zoo automobiles last May; he
cause :he people there had the mon
oy to pay for them and had the roads
upon which tD run them. A great
deal Of the money possessed by Lc-
noir people came to them from the
tourists who spent more than mil
lion dollars there each year.
He said that more than 10000 Of
Kentucky's citizens die each year
from preventable. diseases. S.s69 OF
those dying in the state last year be-
ing victims Of tuberculosis. or; 19
in every 1000 in North Carolina
have it and only in every 900 in
, W"shing gton state have 1t. 4,427 died
Of it in North Carolina last year. He
asked: "Is Kentucky sick?"
He said the report Of the Amn-i-
can Bar Association showed that in
1919 there were 2 murders per
100000 inhabitants in England
, Canada for the same year showed IL
murders per million. Chicago show
cd 110 murders for 100000 while
dear old crime ridden kentucky
showed 115 murders per million in
( hAbitants. He asked again: rs Ken
tucky sick?"
Yes, Kentucky is sick, mentally,
physically, morally. spiritually and
=. financially. Yet the Kentuckians
have the best blood and the best
brains OF any people on the face OF
the earth.
) What's the remedy for Ken
tucky's ills? Here IL is. There are
live steps necessary to make Ken.
tucky rew state. These steps are:
81. Get vision of what Kentucky
ought TO be. With all Kentucky's
resources. including good blood and
brains. Kentucky ought to stand
sEead Of every state in the Union.
Why not?
az. Teamwork to bring the vision
or the New Kentucky Home into the
realm OF reality; teacher and banker
and every citizen to unite into an
army of progress TO boost Kentucky.
Throw away your hammer and get
horn.
"3. PRAYER is the most eficaeious
power in all this world. II Ken'uck-
ians had a great deal more religion
We would have much more ability 10
solve our problems. Prayer and unit
ed EFFORT will always win anything
that ought 10 be won.
"a. Pay for what you want, II
you want Kentucky TO become the
hest state in America you mus. pay
the price. You can't buy diamond
for a nickel any more. Raise road
taxes and school taxes till you get
roads and schools. Pay your preach
ors enough to enable them 10 preach