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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
TO SUPPORT 18TH AMENDMENT


 Los Angeles. Oct. 1s.-1R1-The Women's Foreign Missionary society in Ssth annual conference ySsterday unanimously adopted . resolution pledsinE its mesnbers to vote cnly for presidential and other elective can- didates who uphold tho 18th amendment and who stana un. equivocally for ths constitutisn Of the United States"
 Twenty.four hundred members attending the conference, and rspre- senting the society snroilment of 0.oo0. stood and cheersd their na- tional president. Mrs. Thomas Nicholson of Detroit a they adopted the resolution. which she supported in & lengthy address.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

\ Americanism: A woman who
 once served as somebody's hired
 girl" now kicking because the servant class" is % tmpudent,
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Politicians shouldn't overlook this: As liquor increases 80 does the bitterness of the opposition to those who wink at 1t.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

A rally seems to be something from which the voter needs time to rally.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

We'll, the Main street railroad crossing was good for something after all.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Making the roads safe for women and children seems to be a sure way to get elected. This is what William
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

What campaign! Even Chicago talks about vets and drys and for- gets the menace of invading Brit ishers.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

A legitimate business Is one that
 pays bribes to racketeers instead of policemen.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

To labor for peace is manly. Dut too many so-called pacifists favor peace because they wish to be hateful without inviting the licking they deserve.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
Castles in the air!
We'll Prepared!

We'll Prepareti! Russell: Don't you think college is god preparation for life?" Dobbs: "Yes, indeed. I spent four years learning how to get to 8 o'clock claasea, so that now l no trouble making an S:05 train."
 Samuel Berliner.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Correct this sentence: T don't know where you can get it." said the cop.
 Copyright 1928, Publishers
 Syndicate)
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

The fanatic is much like anybody else, except that he manufactures moro statistics in an argument.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

A normal man h one whose am- bition ii to appear in one of those reading from. .left-to-right pictures with . waiting dignitary.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

The prize dumb-bell of tho year is Jerry Straton, who went into q real estate office and asked for $500 because they had a sign in the window which read: If you need money. we have it."
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

The most intolerant man has been found. He had rather cough than use cough drops made by the Smith brothers.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Of those who think . candidates wife unfit to grace the White House. it is estimated that S7 per cent don't know which fork to use.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
Whea Black is Rsad

 Granted! She sat across the CAT from me, As fair and sweet | maiden Al fondest dream would hope Co \ tailored dress arrayed in; And I-l gased n though bersft Of sense. until she dartsd A flashing shaft at mo and left Me dazed and bleeding-hearted. "Cupid!" I cried. ''were e'sr such
 charms?
 The world I'd givs to win It. Tho joy of holding in my arms That form one blessed minute!" She rose to %: tho speeding car. Al though 1t were enchanted, Stood still! Thanks. Cupid, for that
 jar!
 My plea was quickly granted!
 -Q. L. Brewiss.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Conservatism. in brief: Don't start anything: you might disturb the feathers in my nest"
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Hoover doubtless knows that fable about the fox that stole oR with the meat while the other two ani- mals fought over 1t.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Travel is 50 enliShtentng. You don't realise what the old car can do until you turn 1t loose on . good national highway.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

From Our Own Infant-ry Drill
 Regulationsi
 "Oh. mother!" cried little Nellie excttedly, Tommy Remsen is dead" When did he die?" asked mother. T don't know. but I heard his father say they were sending him to g seminary tomorrow.
 Mrs. L. D. KernG.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Men seldom strike for increased pay if the boss rides in . four year.old car.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

All Of us are ideaI!stic and pa- triotic still. but we know which stocks We would buy if another row should come.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
Ects sad Encies

A bull market is one that always provides one more sucker to unload on.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
AIo6f PrnRrcsadyel

NAOOt INIREee~vcS Briggs: '"ls your town very pro- gressive?"
 Clement: "ls 1t progressive? We had three English lecturers insult us this year." John R. West.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
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Estseo1 q tAe psGt odles at New Britain e esosaa cisD Mall Matter.
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Tho grand manner isn't worth much. except that 1t keeps the DOT. ter busy in hope of 2 bigger tip than he gets.
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Fun Shop FOllics

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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26
Worse O0l

Hodges: Il was on some party last night"
 Steele: 'Eo was I'' Hodges: "I was 50 bad off didn't know where I was" Steele: That's nothing. l was so bad off l didn't know who I vast"
 Walter A. Riers
New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

Pienty q Shocks 1bcscl Why all this talk of censored plAys When. gracious sakes. these autumn
 days Corn helds have sheckiAs ssAta VI
 know. But no one things to stop the showa
 Wh0opeel Wiliiam1 IT: "Was the coach badly worried during that last quar- ter?"
 Britton (substitutsl: ''Was hs wer- ried? Even the hair on his ehsst turned sray!"
 Whea nlack ts RsAd
 A Thumb-Nail 6ketchl Lives there . man with soul 70 dead Who never to himself has said. Al he aimed at the tack and missed
 the head "-l -! 1 !
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New Britain herald., 1928-10-26

rhs Hsraid h a sale daily h New York ct Hotalints Newsstand. Times eauars; echultss Newsstanda Estranet Craad Central t3nd Street.
Evening star., 1928-11-04

Then came the Sunday adventure and
out Of it a dream which cut athwart
social conventions.
1t is an old story now in the noun
tains. worn old as a folk tale by 26
years of telling and retelling-the story
OF the humble beginnings of the Berry
Schools A Summer Sunday after
noon when N1artha Berry, a young girl
lust home frNn finishing school. told
Bible stories III theecabin on her fathers
estate to three dusty mountain lads
she chanced upon as she drove home
from church. Perched on soap box,
with the children squatting on shuck
mats at her feet listening breathlessly.
Martha Berry realized the poignant
hunger of these starved children for
knowledge.
PA ez got him Bible, on'y he CANT
read it," sighed lad
The next Sunday-"Theres white
trash chil'uns Waitin to see YOU" an
nounced the old family cook.
I'VE brang us some sisters" said the
boys.
Martha Berry looked at their hands
and faces, caked with CRIME and soil
at their matted. unkempt hair; at the
rags they wore. She saw with quick SYM
pathy that their neglected bodies
needed training and care as we'll as
their darkened little souls. To the
telling of Bible stories we're added les
sons in washing.
Begins a Life Work.
Every Sunday that Summer brought
more children. walking miles to hear
the wonderful things the Sunday Lady"
told them: stories about Adam and Eve,
about germs, about George Washington.
But it was not until Fall that Martha
Berry discovered that she had begun
life work, started a career that she
could not stop; that she had lighted the
candle of hope in darkened lives around
whose Pickering flame she must cup
soft white hands lest 1t blow out.
Parents began to come down from the
mountains, begging for 'larnin'" along
with their children.
Against the opposition Of friends and
shocked relatives. Martha Berry opened
her first day school in the following
SPRING. one-room cabin with planks
laid across soap boxes for the children's
benches. large packing box for the
teachers desk. Reading, writing, cipher
ing, Bible storieS-this was the curric-
ulum. From miles away came noun
Evening star., 1928-11-04

tain boys, walking barefoot up and down
The stony trails. Their number grew.
"Larn us. Miss Berry" they said.
"Larn us what you-all know"
But for each child who came, hun
dreds there we're who could not make
the long Journey or whose parents
thought "larnin'" waste of time or
whose labor was needed on the farm.
Martha Berry discovered hundreds of
such children when she rode on hOrce-
back through the highways and byways
of the mountains. coming upon weather.
beaten Shacks filled to the door and
window sills with ragged children.
Conditions She Found.
Everywhere on these Journeys she
found dirt, illiteracy, illness. Every
where she found weary. worked-out men
unintelligently endeavoring to wrest a
bare existence out of the poor soil of
the mountain side with the most primi-
tive tools: everywhere tired women. bent
over wash barrels or cracking corn be-
tween fiat stones or doing the work of
the beasts of the field. And everywhere,
too. she found tall, gaunt, blue-eyed men
and women of her own proud Nordic
stock who fiercely rejected even the
"larnin'" they craved because they
were too poor to pay for it.
Thy people shall be my people said
Martha Berry as she consecrated her
young life to the poor whites" of the
mountains.
Her next step was to open at her OWL
expense schools nearer to the remote
settlements of the people. but it was
not long before she realized that her
efforts on behalf of the children were
defeated by the home environment. OF
what use to talk about cleanliness and
godliness to children whose parents
were too poor to buy soap and combs?
1t wasn't Sunday schools, it wasn't
weekday schools that these children
needed. 1t was boarding school, a
complete change of environment that
was essential
So Martha Berry decided her share of
her fathers estate to the first of the
Berry schools, dormitory, which she
built with her own money. From the
inception of the school it was decided
that in return for an education. for
food and lodging, the boys could work.
They were too poor to pay. too proud
to accept charity. A dozen boys came.
you aim to larn us?" they asked.
"Yes. 1 aim to-
well, we-uns has come, ma-am."
Evening star., 1928-11-04
CHILDREN OF THE MOUNTAINS

So in return for the opportunity to
learn there was wood to cut, land to
clear. COW to milk. crops to SOW and
harvest Gradually the plan and type
of school most needed for the mountain
children took form in the mind OF
Martha Berry. Education. she decided.
must be like the mystic Trinity, three
fold yet one-of the hand, of the mind
and of the heart. Education must teach
these raw minds and unframed hands
to think to do and to feel. Essen
TALLY it must be agricultural. fitting
lads to return to the soil from which
they sprang.
With the coming Of Spring six more
BOYS came, one of them walking 40
miles. driving yoke of oxen.
" 'Tis the fee for larnin me, ma-am,"
he said proudly. They're broke ter
plowin'."
From a distant valley, leading his
"fee" by rope came a lad with a SOW,
starved and dirty as the lad himself.
Others came, bringing chickens, ducks
to exchange for an education. More
often they brought nothing but strong,
willing hands. Tall lanky boys came.
who, at the age of IS or Is. could not
read or write, but who in three years
showed as great progress as the aver
age senior in a northern college.
So the school grew. Martha Berry's
resources were exhausted. Still. not until
she had literally sold or decided all that
she had given to the poor did she, turn
to outsiders for help, did she go beyond
the disappearing circle of her friends
with the story of the mountain boys
begging for an education, willing to
work long hours with plow and axe and
scythe that they might know something
of the world of books. might learn how
to live more intelligently.
Gets Aid on Outside.
She told the people of old New Eng
land, of New York and Philadelphia
and Boston, about these forgotten
Americans of purest colonial stock. liv-
ing IN isolation in the Appalachian
Mountains, whittier they were driven by
the slave system of labor which did not
permit a white man to work with his
hands without losing caste.
She told the old families of New Eng
land how these poor whites" old FAM
lilies, too, dwelt in proud isolation, ut
terly 'illiterate. tilling their depleted
farms with primitive methods. Prog
ress, like the mountain streams that
Continued on Fourth Page.7
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Is elected President, and If the Seven
t1eth Congress in the short session
should fail to enact adequate legislation
In aid of the farmer, he will summon
Congress in extra session to that end
AS indicated in his speeches at Pale
Alto. West Branch, Iowa, and Eliza
bethton, Tenn, the program of farm
relief that commends itself to Mr.
Hoover are the following items in chief:
Early realization of Mr. Hoover's mag
niflcent inland waterways program
which should provide much cheaper
freight rates than now obtained between
the interior and the sea; enlargement of
cooperative marketing facilities; a Gov
ernment-f1nanced farm board to handle
crop Surpluses, and increase of tariff
protection to farm products.
The Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation
has won the competition for the con-
struction of two super-Zeppelins for the
Navy and hangar to house them. The
ships will be built at the companvs
plant at Akron. Ohio: likewise the
hangar. The hangar will cost between
$2,000,000 and $3,000,O00 and will be the
biggest hangar in the world. The two
ships will cost about $4,000, 900 to be 78O
feet long, and to have a helium gas
capacity of 6,500,OOO cubic feet, twice
that of the Graf Zeppelin. In addition
TO the steel hangar 0.20O feet long, $50
feet wide and 200 feet high) there will
be 4S0-foot moOring mast. The work
should be completed in about IL months.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co is TO
electrlfy It's entire service, passenger
and freight, between New York and
WilminGton-325 miles of line. 800 of
track. Expenditure of about $1OO. OOO. :
600 over seven or eight years is indi-
Gated. 1t seems probable that ulti-
mately the entire 1000 miles of track
age of the company will be electrified.
section by section. Elcctrification is ex-
pected to speed up freight service by
between 20 and 30 per cent Electric
traction is more economical than steam
traction in areas of dense traffic.
1t has been decided to increase by so
per cent the capacity of the bridge
spans and approaches of Queensborough
Bridge (ccnnecting Manhattan and
Long Isand), at an estimated cost of
$6,O0O,000.
Notcs-It appears that the Patriotic
Union is the Cnly legal political party
in Spain, like the Fascist party in Italy.
A Greco-Jugoslav treaty with salts
factory provisions respecting the free
zone" for Jugoslavia at Saloniki has
, teen signed by representatives of the
Athens and Belgrade governments. 1t
Is for II months and automatically re-
news itself continuously for equal Pc
riodS unless denounced ad millennium.
Famine spreads fearfully to the GEN.
trail provinces of Hupeh and Human and
the southern provinces of Kwangtung
and Kwangsi in China. The rice crops
of Human and Hupeh are reputed to
be piddling: that of Kwangtung 4H per
cent, that of Kwangsi go per cent be-
low normal. Some hundred million
people living in an area of about
100000 square miles are affected
Evening star., 1928-11-04

hayyp married life. compared with the
vast mass of information which awaits
discovery. But 1t is essential 10 Know
that little.
Consequently, 1t recommends seriously
that all higher institutions OF learning
colleges. normal schools, universities
and professional schools-lncorporat
in their curriculums courses IN human
relationships, especially on the Suplect
of marriage" It also recommends that
Gle, gymen undertake this WORK IN tnelr
marshes to the extent of their ability
Anv one can fall in love. But one
must know how to stay IN love. some
seem to have this knowledge mtuitlVeiy.
Some are self taught. Some never
learn and the car of matrimony Crashes
on the first crossing.
Trafac is getting thicker The rules
are more complicated. The chances are
that this condition will be progressive
The day of the amateur married man
and the amateur married woman Is
coming to a close. They must know
show-how to love each other, now 10
suffer together. how to snare ldealS'
disappointments and triumphs. iney
must be trained in human relationships
in moldjng the character ana per-
sonalitv of one in conformity with the
personality of the other.
Probably II Is the most compHcateo
subject in the world. 1t involves nelos
of knowledge into which no human mas
penetrated. The church commission
proposes merelG q beginning.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
Poland to Observe
Tenth Anniversary

The restored Polish state will be
10 years old next month. Among other
preparations to celebrate the event
Warsaws fine old market square, whose
youngest house dates from the end Of
the eighteenth century and whose old
est in part from the fifteenth, Is being
restored at least externally to its for
mer glory.
Not only are the tattered facades Of
the patrician houses, now often slunny
tenements. being put in order, but paint
is being splashed over them in a truly
baroque or medieval riot Of color.
Fukier's 300-year wine shop Is
putting On scarlet and gold.
The heads OF Polish kings bir',s,
beasts. flowers and family emblems are
being frescoed on the houses by young
artists to reproduce the appearance the
square is thought to have had 800 years
ago. In its rich gayety of color. how
ever, 1t promises to make an impression
as much modern as ancient Here
Pilsudski Is to speak on November IL,
Polands independence day.
Evening star., 1928-11-04

T HE following is brief summary
of the most important news OF
the world for the seven days
ended November 8.
X X X X
Great Britain-Lloyd George appears
to be playing politics In charging that
the British government, in formally
acquiescing in the French positions that
trained reserves should not be con-
sidered in any scheme of limitation of
land forces, betrayed the cause of dis
armament. AS a matter of fact Lord
Cecil himself, the grand champion of
disarmament, in a speech before the
preparatory disarmament commission in
April, 1927, recognizing that France and
most of the other continental countries
would not renounce Conscript armies,
gave up the fight along that line.
The British government utilized
formal recognition Of the futility of
such opposition in the supposed interest
of naval limitation The British gov
ernment would like to see conscript
armies abolished, but perceives that the
thing is out of the question for some
time yet. Being realists, why kick
against the pricks?" the government
asks.
1t was vivid statement-that Britain,
like France. is a nation in the grip of
fear-fear of starvation from the sea,
as France Is in fear of invasion by land.
Hence the Franco British agreement.
A new type of locomotive steam engine
he's been invented by an Englishman
which Is claimed to represent the great
est single advance in steam engine con-
struction since Stephenson.
X Il \ X
Germany.-It is now understood that
the invitations to a conference to con-
slider reVision--or, what Is more likely
superseSsion-of the Dawes plan are to
issue from Berlin. OF course, prior to
such issue of invitations agreement will
have been reached as to the compost
ton of the international comm 'ssion
the general character of the agenda
etc.
The Graf Zeppelin made the return
trip from Lakehurst to Friedrichshater
without mishap in about SO hours
Distance. over an approximation to thc
Great Circle course. about 4.5O0 miles
as against $500 miles over the south
ern course taken on the westward flight
The receipts passengers, mall anc
freight seem to have approximate
S250,000.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
BY MARY FIELD PARTON.

TWENTY- SIX years ago. on Sun
day afternoon, star must nave
hung low and luminous over
little log cabin in the mountains
of Georgia Here, in obscurlty.
a dream was born to a gentle Southern
girl. Few were wise enough to toreSee
the significance of her vision In the lives
of thousands of poor and lowly folk.
Today however, that dream has be-
come the brick and stone reality OF
great training school for the bows ana
girls of the Appalachian Mountains
nebulous dream has become the Berry
Schools for the poor whites" who live
their starved. proud lives on remote up
land farms in ignorance and poverty.
Moreover. today Martha Berry. the
founder of the schools, is the recipient
of the annual achievement award oil
$5 600 given by one of Americas lar3-
est magazines to that American woman
who within the last 10 years has mace
the most distinguished contribution to
our national life in letters, art, science
or social welfare.
During these many years lanEy boys
and girls in ever-increasing numbers
have been coming down from the up
lands. trudging weary miles, hungry for
"larnin'" Ragged, dirty, barefooted,
they come, all they possess on their
backs and in shoulder bundle.
II come to git me larnin' hyar." they
say simply, dropping their burden at
the entrance to the grounds Of the
school, whose wide gates swing open
onto the paved, elm-arched Road of
Opportunity"
"We-uns has come. ma am. Larn US"
they say with the dignity of old little
children. a tragic dignity which offsets
their rags, their untutored speech
Martha Berry. the founder of the
unique Berry School at Rome, Ga,
was born to far more cultured associa-
tions than those of the simple noun
tain folk of her country. For her was
planned a more romantic future than
that which she elected Behind her lay
all the gracious Southern traditions Of
story and picture: a great plantation,
white pillared house with broad bal
comics and overhanging wistaria: SER
wants to fetch and carry: the polished
education given to the girls of wealthy
families. Her days were to be those OF
the aristocratic' Southern belle
a laughing joyous girlhood: a brilliant
marriage; an assured social position.
Evening star., 1928-11-04

Continued on Fourth Page. J
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BIZ THOMAS r. HEM.

T HE EpisSe-s Church of the
~-~s-< States is in the midst OF
a far-reaching study of the
i problem of divorce.
Evening star., 1928-11-04
List Manila Crimes
In ''BlOOdiest Month

Here is how crime and violence run
in Manila, a port and manufacturing
city of 100000 inhabitants. during Au-
gust, superstitiously known as 'the
bloodiest month in the year." SOS ac-
cidents injuring 1so persons and killing
Z, % street car collisions, 342 acci-
dents to horse-drawn and motor We
hicles, 1866 arrests, 420 for gambling,
106 for theft IL for robbery. % for
assault, homicide, 81 for breaches of
trust, So for breaches of the peace and
9 for vioIating the opium Law.