Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
TOMORROW
Institution Built by Hoover
Amid Mountain Beauty
Ready for Pupils.
CONTINUED Prom First Pare.l

the picture of another hollow. The hol-
lows are isolated communities, each of
which has gone its own way. In some
the people are tenacious and progress
Sive, holding their heads aloft despite
their depressing environment and keep
ing themselves in readiness to join the
march Of progress. In some the people
have lost their hold and fallen-fallen
very far toward the level Of the most
primitive humanity. And there are
all degrees in between, so that each
must be studied in itself Dark Hol-
low seems to be a good example Of the
former type.
Men Are Giving Help.
1t is just this kind of a study which
Miss Vest realizes that she must make
and at the first opportunity she will
visit the people in their cabins and
learn what she can Of the environment
Of the children. There are no standard
measures which she can apply to de-
termine their mental growth. 1ntelli-
gence tests have not been devised for
the children of the sobbing cataract.
The men Of the neighborhood also
are getting acquainted. They are help
ing put the school house in order. A
group of them yesterday were busy
painting the nag pole. They appeared
TO be rather progressive type OF
mountain men.
The White House obviously has done
its best to prevent Miss Vest from
being bothered by visitors. realizing that
she had . lot Of work to get the school
house ready for the opening. There is
q barbed-wire barricade at the foot of
the rough mountain road which leads
to the school house. Here Marines are
encamped.
The Marine sergeant was a courteous
fellow who assured Star reporter and
photographer that his men absolutely
we're not stopping visitors to the school,
that the barbed-wire was to keep in
cattle and that there was no objection
to lifting it aside. The nature of the
road is such that it probably should
have been barricaded, last week at least,
against automobiles.
Appeared Rather Capable.
But when the party reached the
school house the Marine on duty there
to aid the teacher informed the photog-
rapher that no pictures were to be
taken, by orders just telephoned by the
very sergeant who had passed US. Ard
We got q good view-of the outside of
the school house, the Bunaker cabin,
the spooky. graveyard-i mountain
sides covered with the straight white
trunks of dead chestnuts, and the sun
set over Doubletop Mountain.
That was au-except, for one of us,
Dark Hallow and the sobbing waterfall
and the descent into the haunted dusk
or . highland glen of centuries ago
out Of which so many of the age-old
phantasies Of the race have been Gre
ated.
All this Miss Vest would say posi-
lively was that she was delighted with
the scenery around her new home. And
1t Is hard to see how she could have
formed any more opinions, convincingly
enough to be quoted for them consid-
ertng the 1ateness Of her arrival, the
complicated nature of her problem, and
her lack Of opportunity to study the in
dividuals among whom she must work.
She Is there to help the neglected peo-
pie, not to make specimens Of them to
be studied under a microscope. And
for Just this job of helping them she
appeared to be a rather capable person.