Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-17
LOUISVILLE JOINS
IN TO help BEREA
Men and Women Philanthropists
Help With Needed Fund
Papers Tell of Work

a number or PUBIC spirited dnC
philanthropic men and women O
Louisville are taking much inter
est in the Berea Fund drive. Sew
eral meetings have been held
there and on Sunday night mo-
tion picture of activities at this
famous institution was given at
DR.. Z. L Powell's First Christian
church. The Louisville Herald
tells of the campaign for funds
and of the work of Berea College
as follows:
A number prominent citizens
of Louisville, led by Lieut. Gov.
S. Thruston Ballard, are interest
ed in a hitherto unrecognized ma
tional asset-the southern noun
taineer. They are sponsoring a
series OF meetings to be held in
the interest of Berea College, the
oldest and largest of the many in
stitutions which are training
southern mountain boys and girls
for leadership among their peo-
pie.
Founded sixty-live years ago,
Berea College is fitting what Pres
ident Harding recently called
''one Of the finest stocks of orig
inal Americans to be found in this
country" to take its right place
as source of national progress.
Descendants of colonial and pio-
neer forbearS, with pure Ameri-
can blood in their veins, those
mountain people live in isolated
valleys and spurs of the Appal-
achains. lacking waterways, rail
roads, and often even usable wa
gon roads. Independent and self
reliant to a degree, suspicious of
the 'furiner" until he has proved
safe" they have paid the price
of isolation in lack of progress.
Berea and the other mountain
schools are fitting these boys and
girls to be leaders in their own
country, not to be driven out by
poverty. ignorance and disease
Berea provides academic work
suited to every variety of need,
from foundation school" to COL
lege. I'm addition. it provides
practical learning along the lines
of agriculture, home making, and
better modes Of living. 1t teaches
girls sound, wholesome emthods
of cooking to replace the old de-
vastating round of the ''hog and
hominy" diet. The boys learn
modern methods of agriculture,
which double and triple their pro-
ductiveness, as well as blacksmith
ing. motor mechanics, and other
useful trades Grown men and
women are glad to be taught the
three RS" in the Foundation
School.
Boys and girls come to Berea
expecting to work, and they do
work. By labor on the college
farm and in the blacksmith shop
in the loom rooms and kitchens
and countless other departments. !,
many students earn the greater |
part of their way. Every student
is required to labor not less than
ten hours a week toward the cost
of his or her education. No tut
ton fee is charged, and board an;l
lodging are supplied at absolute
minimum of cost. The student !
body numbers 1000, of whom co.
per cent return to their own
mountain communities to share
what they have learned with
those who stayed at home. Five
hundred a year are being turned
away for lack of room, and Berea
is seeking $1,000,000 to provide
funds to meet the growing de-
mands of the mountain people for
the opportunities which are given
there.
Berea, as everyone knows. is
dedicated to the task of making
the pathway from the cabin to the
university short and plain and
easy of ascent. 1t has a specialf
claim on us. 1t is situated in ,
Kentucky. draws largely from
Kentucky cabin homes, and its,
unique conception of education
rcherts honor upon Kentucky !
foresight
While Berca's pupils NAV come
from any part of the Appalach
ian range, last year 1901 OF them
ca'ne from Kentucky nlore. and
their ages ran from Is to IS years
some Of the oldest of these men
who had been voting for fourteen
wears. were painfully picking out
their A. B. C.'s, while some of the
Youngest. whose opportunities
liad been less limited. were joy-I
oI'elv earning their A B. degree.
So lono rs there is dorr1itory