The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-14
CREATOR OF JUNGLE REMUs"

When check for $2,000 was given to Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris, in payment for "Snap Bean Farm" the work of establishing perpetual memorial to Joel Chandler Harris was completed. "Snap Bean Farm" adjoins "The Wren's Nest," home of the creator of "Uncle Remus." Members of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association began their task in 1908, the year of Joel Chandler Harris death. Sixteen years is long time to devote to tLe raising of the comparatively small sum needed to establish the Harris me- lnorial, but we shall not mind that, since tle object sought has been accomplished and one of the most lovable and gifted men who ever lived is fittingly honored where he would have preferred most to be honored-in his native Georgia and in the city of Atlanta, where he labored happily and with ever increasing fame for many years.
 MT. Harris joined the staff of the At !anta Constitution in 1876, to which paper he contributed the early sketches that were to become known the world over .s the "Uncle Remus" stories. In 1890 ne became editor of the Constitution. In J brilliant company of Southern writers, Joel Chandler Harris occupies place all his own. Perhaps he is the best know of Southern writers, because he worked Ill a unique field. Before the time of Joel Chandler Harris, negro folklore was familiar to Southern people, and had been utilized by other writers, but the type of folklore that MT. Harris gave wide cur rency and immortality to was so local in character that it was scarcely heard of
 utside of the South.
 Many writers have attempted to treathe life into and give literary dis t.nction to negro folklore, but it may be said that MT. Harris had no predecessor
 f note aad no rival. No one else has succeeded, as he did, in making the folk fore of what may be referred to as a single narrow locality in the South known al ound the wrold. In the opinion of many critics Thomas Nelson Page wrote some of the best negro stories that have ever appeared in print, but Joel Chandler Harris stands alone as the master of negro folklore. Uncle Remus, "ol' Br'cr habbit," "Br'er Fox," and other animal characters that figure in the tales of Uncle Remus" havc delighted children since the first "Uncle Remus" book was published, in 1880, entitled, "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings" :" This volume has since become a classic. Curiously enough, it interests students of popular tradition, as we'll as children. In fact, "Uncle Remus," so quaint, so hu- norous and so veracious, notwithstanding tie "whoppers" he tells, delights young and old The child who is permitted to grow up without having made the &C., uuaintance of "Uncle Remus" has missed It's rightful heritage.
 It may seem strange to Southern chIl- dren to think about, but youngsters in far-away lands, who have never seen a cotton patch, and many who have never even seen a negro, are fascinated by the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Could any one of us read, no matter how much water has run under the bridges since first heard of "Uncle Remus," that liverting tale of "B'er Rabbit and tke IIar-Baby'' without chuckling? How many, many times have peals of child ls.1 laughter greeted the reading of that story, whose title alone brings back to thousands of grown people memories of lome, a mothers knee and the evening lamp!
 The work for which Joel Chandler Harris is best known, was only a part, and a small part at that, of his literary ana journalistic writing. Fifteen or more volumes stand to his credit, including several books of short stories, memoir of Henry w. Grady, Georgia From the Invasion of DeSoto to Recent Times," and novel or two. A versatile writer, MT. Harris succeeded in nearly everything he attempted, including folklore rhymes. Be- cause of their rarity, such figures Tn llt- a, ature are all the more highly prized. It was the good fortune of Joel Chandler Harris to be happy himself and to impart Happiness to countless other people, young and old. His later life was an epic of contentment, and of labor richly rewarded. Since his death there has been no dimlnishment of his fame.
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