Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30

fighting, tut if you have to fight, you
have to fight" he said.
He showed that the church, sect OF
John wesleyan, with headquarters at
Circleville, Ohio, urges due obedience
to those in authority.
Takes Pulpit.
What it teaches about war, Pastor
Pile declared, is "just the belief of any
Christian man." Newspapers, he in
sisted, had him all wrong.
Three years ago the congregation,
sometimes called the Holiness" or
Second Blessing" Church. built its
first house of worship. The sergeant,
as second elder, breaches there occa-
Gionally; the church officers all do.
about right" wncn we entered the war
in 1917. Would he go ;ritJ another
war? If my country was in it." he
answered, 81 would
His escape from the bullets of a.
whole machine-gun battalion on Octo-
Der 8, 1918, at Chateau Thierry, he
still considers a sort of miracle. Mill
tary experts think the miracle was
what he accomplished, not what he
missed
According to Army reports, he killed
20 Germans with his pistol and rife,
put 80 machine guns out Of commission
and took his 1872 prisoners home with
only a handful of Americans. to guard
them.
What you did was the greatest
thing accomplished by any private SOL
der of all the armies of Europe" Mar
The collection of medals that soon
descended upon him is now divided be-
tween vaults iii jamestown and the
safe of country store step across the
road from his new house.
The store IVES the Scrgeant'S prop
erty, but last Spring he sold it to his
brother, ]. M. York, lin order to de-
vote his entire time to the education
i@Clk." as the FenIess County News
put It,.
''He has at times neglected his own
affairs in the interest % the school,
ana naturally the busj2e3S he formerly
conducted suffered" wlote A. S. Bush
ing, his secretary and the secretary OF
the Alvin C. York Agricultural. Institute.
No Wish for Riches.
York himself explained his motives;
Il would rather build and maintain a
school among my own people for MOTH
ing than to serve more favored sections
at a great salary"
OF the $1,000 the institute will
have spent IN its buildings by Fall the
sergeant raised and contributed $4,000,
the proceeds of a. lecture tour, from
which he took nothing but. his expenses.
The county provided a $4,000 bond
issue, the premium on the bonds came
to. Sc. 900, and the State furnished $780,
900 more.
Fentress County Is under obligation
to carry en- the institute, which will
serve in the stead Of high cchool. A
$4,000 primary unit will take the place
of the jamestown graded school build
| ing. and the high school dtvlsinn will
| operate on the other side of the city.
The Institutes building committee is
| the State Board of Education. Con-
tributions are held IN trust-Sff 900 for
| a girls dormitory has already piled up
and the American Legion in Tennessee
is pushing its own $4,000 campaign.
No such schooling is to be had for so
miles around, The, new superintendent
is Dewey Hunter, Portland, Tenn, a
eisduate. of the Peabody College for
/ Teachers, with training in agriculture.
! Those mountaineers who have found
| fault will forget thei.' animosi.ics surely
VIXEN the pupils come home again and
I bumper crops Ieawaken their hillsidca.
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