New Britain herald., 1924-10-28
WANT ADVENTURE?
 BE TRUAN7 OFFICER
Revenue Men Just as Welcome
 in Kentucky Mountains

Chicago, Oct. oS.-The life of a truant officer in the southern noun tains is as varied and as dangerous as that of revenue officer. He is unwelcome in the homes of the mountaineers, and fathers help their sons to avoid his clutches, according to the report of the inner mission board of the United Lutheran church in America. now in session in this city.~
 Folk who dwell in the mountains 1 of remote parts of southwest Vir- ginia fear 10 have their children at tend the public schools maintained by the state as it makes them rest less and dissatisfied and from the mountaineer's viewpoint, apparently serves no permanent good. But schools established by the Lutheran church hold no terrors, for they knew that the church is striving to be of service. This unique situation is behind the plan of the inner mis- sion board in establishing day schools and boarding schools at cen tral locations for the vocational and religious education of the mountain children. The beginners of this plan are contained in the report of that board, presented at today's confer ence.
 The confidence which these people have in the church has brought about the Remarkable success of a day school established in the sum- mer of 1923 in the Currin Valley. near Marion, Va. Because there was no room of any sort available for the establishment of the school, an abandoned box car in a railroad sid Ing was put into service and is still being used until a school room and chapel can be completed this win Fter. Children of all ages are being taught to read and write and adults are invited to participate in frequent religious services.
 At Konnarock, Va, a piece of land has been offered by a local lumber dealer for the erection of a school building and derlrtitory during the current year, and the establishing of a boarding school where girls and boys will receive a strictly Christian vocational train ing. .s-..
 A most important phase of the work of the Inner Mission Board is the development of a workable plan for keeping in touch with the i'm. migrant to America frem the time he leaves his home church in the old country until he reaches his new home in the United States and is aitiIiated with the local Lutheran parish. The task" says the board
 IS five fold one-Gl work at the port of New York; @ work At other American ports; (3) work Tn Canada; CD establishing contacts at foreign ports from which our people are coming; and t5) follow up the work"
 The board has reported on the welfare and progress of s1 inner mission institutions of the United Lutheran Church throughout the country, including orphans homes old peoples homes, 2 orphans and old peoples homes. 1 home for detectives, 3 hospices, hospital, seamens mission, 2 deaconesS motherhouses, s miscellaneous insti. tuticns, and city missions and i'm ner mission societies, ccntroIled or supported entirely by the United Lutheran Church; and orphans' homes old peoples home, 2 homes Tor defectives,s hospices, hospl- tals, sesmen's aud immigrant mission, fdeaconesses motherhouse and city mission societies, in tbe operation cf which the United Lutheran Church in America parti- cipates.