The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-06
TO OPEN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL

Establishment of series of com munity center" elementary schools for boys and girls in the Appalachian mountain region, with central ele- mentary and secondary finishing school on Lookout mountain, is planned by Milford w. Howard, for mcr congressman from the Seventh Alabama district and now turned phil anthropist us result of his success as a novelist and in the movies. The schools which he will establish will be free from all monetary cost to the mountain boys and girls for whom they are planned, and the oniy tuition costs will be in services rem dered, the students paying their way through school as they attend.
 MT. Howard has already purchased 750 acres of land on Lookout noun tain as the site of the elementary and secondary school which Ne will cation centers. He expects to open the schools in September. and called at the capital to invite Governor Brandon and his old friend, John Abercrombie, to address the dedica- tory exercises.
 MT. Howard was born in Georgia, near Rome, but moved to Alabama early in life and has made his home in this state since except for the last four years spent in Los Angeles. He began the practice of law at Fort Payne when IS years of age and was elected to Congress from the Bloody Seventh" in 1894, succeed ing W. H. Denson. and served two terms
 AS an author he has achieved nota- ble success, having written The Bishop of the Ozarks" and Peggy Ware" both of which have attracted widespread favorable comment. The first named has been dramatized for the silent jramss and MT. Howard production. lie has in preparation. soon to be published, a third novel, 'Po' White Trash"
 In his writings MT. Howard strik ingly portrays the mountaineer types, with which ~Le Is familiar. T am one of them; I intend to devote my life to doing something for mountain started in the world without educa- tion; who suffer from lack of op- portunities. as 1 did" MT. Howard stated.
 The schools which he will estab- fish will emphasize the vocational form of instruction, devoting atten- tion to agriculture and other prac- tical forms of education. He will be assisted in hls educational work by his cousin, Mrs. Stella Vivien Harper of Brunswick, Ga., a Shorter grad uate. The school which they will es- tablish will be along the general line of the nationally known Berry school in Georgia.
 MT. Howard has been back in Ala bama less than two weeks. and has already closed the purchase of 750 acres of land located seven miles from Fort Payne, where he will make a beginning of giving the children of the mountain country some of the op- portunities which he was forced to make for himself without assistance.
 QUESTIONNAIRESF FORWARDED
 Mrs. Thomas M. Owen, director of the department of archives and his tory, at the request of Governor Brandon, is sending out a question: naire to the camps of Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confed- eracy chapters asking them to make recomm mendations as to the Confeder- ate heroes who are to be commence rated on the Stone Mountain me morial. near Atlanta. Governor Brandon is chairman of the memorial committee In Alabama. and the state will have five representatives on the perpetual monument to the heroes of the sixties.
 Gen. Henry c. Davidson of Mont gomery, state commander of Confed- crate veterans, has submitted the following list which he considers eligible for places on the memorial: Fighting Joe" Wheeler, James H. Clanton. Robert Emmett Rodes, John c, c. Sanders. l. w. Garrett, John Gregg, W. w. Allen, John Hoke For ney, E. A. O'Neal, George Paul liar rison, F.. M. Law, John Pelham and pr. J. Marion Sims.
 A reply has been received also from J. H. Dunklin camp 2475 at Greenville. through J. B. Stanley, commander, and A. T. Kendrick, ad- jutant. This camp recommends the following five heroes: Gen. Joe Wheeler, Gen. Ali Baker, Gen. John T, Morgan, Admiral Raphael Semmes and Col. John Pelham. It also recom- mends William Hendrix Stanley as a hero who served in the ranks. Mrs. Owen has asked that each recommen- dation include one enlisted man in addition to the officers.
 Selection of Alabama's quota will be made by the state committee when more recommendations have been re- ceived.
 CAR INSPECTOR INJURED
 J.. c. Davis, car inspector for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad suffered nf riOht lar xub