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1 â€" ' / â-  ' •. ;? V, » ' 4ik < ' J! .â- â-  .' *» -. ' t • y i '. •- â-  V M- '. J '^e Uhf Hat Come-Larn W Thf Pathetic Plea of Georgia Mountain Children to the Berry Schools. Martha Berry, Founder of These Unique Institutions, Has Just Been Avmrded the Pictorial Review Prize for Out- standing Achievement By MARY FIELD PAItTON "Back Beyond" la au Oatarlo "for- goftec section" â€" Haliburton; parts of Ifuakoka seciions of Victoria, Ilaat- Ings and Renfrew counties, we had a very Bimilar condition to that told in the story of the Georgia "Poor While Trash." The Department ot Kduca- tlon, the Red Crosn and stveral mis- came mountain boyt, walking barefoot up and down the (tonr trallu. Their number grew. "I^m us, Mias Berry," they said. "L.arn us what you-all know." Old A* Well Aa Young But fpr each child who came, hun> dreda there were who could not make the long journey or whose parents a waste of time or Perpetuating in Picture the BalacUvA Qiarge Blonary ministers have Improvod the thought "lamin sad conditions in these backward | ^^^^^ j^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^„ y^^ ,^^^ parts of our fair province. The work Is not yet completedâ€" much Is yet to Martha Berry dlscdvered hundreds of such children w»hen she rode on horse- ^.J'r-. /:T''1*: '^^1:!^L'IJ^::^-<^ through the highways and by- New York Tribune of Martha Berry ways of the mountainR, coming upon and her work may be an inspiration, ^.^^^l^^^.^^^j^„ ^^^^^^ j,„^„ ^^ ^^^ '°,°"!â- _.^'f""!^"^*°.?J'?iLV'^.:^""l<loor and window sills with ragged children. Everywhere on these journeys she found dirt, illiteracy, illness. Every- where she found weary, worked-out men uniutelUgently endeavoViug to wrest a bare existence out of the poor soil of the mountain side with the principles for the betterment of our own under-prlviU'KPd children. Twenty-six years ago, on a Sunday afternoon, a star must have hung low and luminous over a little log cabiu In the mountains of Georgia. Here, In obscurity, a dream was born to a gentle Southern girl. Few orere wise enough to foresee the signiflcance of her vision in the lives ot thousands ot poor and lowly folk. To-day, however, that dream has be- come the brick and stone reality of a great training school tor the boys and girls of the Appalachian Mountains; a nebulous dream has become the Berry Schools foi* the "poor whites" who live their starved, proud lives on re- mote upland farni.-< in ignorance and poverty. Moreover, to-day, MacUia Berry, the founder of the schools, is the recipient of the annual achievcmont award of $5,000 given by "The" Pictorial Re- Tiew" to that American woman who within the last ten years has made the most di.slingulshed contribution to our national life in lettcr|, art, science or social welfare. During them; many years lanky boys and girls in ever-increasing ni: bers have been coming down from t: up- lands, trudging weary ipiles, h .gry tor "larnin"." Ragged, dirty, bar. foot- »d they come, all, all they posse: on their backs and in a shoulder bu.dle. "I come ti) git me larnin' hy.ir," they say nlmply, dropping their bur- den at the entrance to the grounds of .„_ _.. the school, whose wide gates swing! Hie Berry Schools, a dormitory which ^ of the upianiU. An unending file of '" ""^ orchard I ' , n;j i - .; Biitiihunpire ' Called Big Factor in World Ptece Sir Atisten Chamberlain Say* Canada's Counsel Will Be Highly Valued , Ottawa, Ont.â€" Canada's part In la- terlmperlal and International atfalra was the subject of two Inspiting ad< dresses given by jBlr Austen . Cham- herlAlh. British Foreign Secrf tary, as the guest of the Canadian OoTem- roent. ." •- . ', ^tJle CaiutiU^s increaslnf ^ influ- ence contained elements of danger, Sir Austen had a profound faith that "always our commons sense will 4BqJ« these di»o«lt«e».a« they arise." He considered thtit the British Em- pire was a factor of Immense Im- portance for th© peace of tb» world, and "we will welcome any counsel and crlticlara you may contribute to tte foreign policy of the Empire." Sir Austen said It was geographi- cally impossible for Great Britain to !be Indifferent to the peace of Europe; jbut he looked for the dominions, I from tlwir more detached positions, to j be ready with their counsel and ad- vice. He designated the British Em- pire as a constant puzzle to tbe rest of the world, but as a puzzle that was being solved with amazing success, "guarding peace among ourselves and workin for peace throughout thi INTO THE VALLEY OF DEATH ROJE THE GALLANT SIX HUNDRED world." The charge of the Light Brigade at the battle of l!ala:lava, re-enacted by British cavalrymen at Aldershot for ''^'- ^- ^'ackcnzle King. Prime Min- a film of the battle in 1852. . '• later of Canada, spoke of Sir Austen , ' as being as distinguished as his great tls havini most primitive tools;' everywhere; tired women, bent over wash barrels ; or cracking corn between flat stones ! or doing the work of the beasts of the ! field. And everywhere, too, she found i tall, gaunt, blue-eyed men and women ; of her own proud Nordic stock who ! fiercely reji^ctod even the "larnin' " | they craved because Ihey were too ; poor to pay for It. ' "Thy people shall -ite my people," said Miirllia lierry n.s she consecrated • , , r.iit«i,iora f i, i m i ' • father. Sir Joseph; of her young life to the "poor whites" of „,, "'' ^ "'"â- ^','^-^ '°'' J'^'P' "'"»"«'. t'ny shack. They are grown men crusaders to their kinfolk, eager to filled nearlv all the portfolios In th« the mountains. ! t". /!."„,.. !..'., â- "F,''''"^*^ '^'â- ''^ of now. And Martha Berry, white-hair- ^ battle against ignorance and poverty. Cabinet, and of being the "Locarnc .story of the ert, gentle, with eyes both brilliant J There are no servants at Berry, peace pact itself." and tender, looks down from the All must work. All want to. It was Sir Robert Borden, former Pre- The Project Started her friend.s with the mountain boys begglnK for an educa- ""r.r':^,::::^!^":^!!^: '";:::: !i::r'L!"^!::^i"?« «• Dreams.- which -t,. boys ;; new '^;d;^cj'i^;<;:pr;;;^mw ^canadr^er;:dT th;;; own 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 chil- dren were dofeated by the home En- vironment. Of what use to talk about cleanliness and godliness to children whose parents were too poor to buy soap and combs? It wasn't Sunday schofrts. It wasn't wei'kday schools that thes children needed. It was a boarding school, a complete change of environment that was essential. So Martha Berry deeded her share I!!!Im"i?!' ""'" "'"' f^J'^^'e that they , and girls thems-lves built for her on tte mountains that hand labor Is guest as the exponent of a rare and might know something of the world , the sumnflt of Lavendar Mountain, dignified and honorable. Martha sane Idealism, and greater In peace upon the sprcudiiiK realization of her Berry taught lads that lesson, work- even than during war. of books, might loam how to live more intelligently. IVIoney Secured Money began coming in from her "begging tours," as she called them . . . and ever more thiUlren kept com- ing, making more and more money necessary. From all over the country tiny streams of contributions began flowing over the Appalachians into Georgia to the Berry Schools. Yet never, never sugScient, never conimen -<â€" The Lady of Tears of her father's estate to the first of surate v,itli Uie need of the children the Berry open onto the pavedelmarched "Road .she built with her own money. From boys kept trickling down the moun- The Harvest of Opportunity." the inception of the school it was de- tain trtiilH. their packs on their backs, I From the very first "We-uns has come, ma'am. Lam' elded that in return for an education, j their overcoats patched, their hats Schools were essentially agricultural. as, they say with the dignity of old for food and lodging, the boys could j battered. P'ootsore, shy, they stood Tl:e five courses that are givenâ€" Uttle children, a tragic dignity which 'work. They were too poor to pay; too i gazing through the open grates down agriculture, home economics me- girlhood's dream. ing u profound psychologic change In Nearly all the buildings have been the male point of view Many other constructed by the boys themselves, subtle things are taughtâ€" an apprecl- In the warm meadows beyond the "*'<"> for the beauty that lies all campus sturdy boys in the uniform about them, of the power of character. Marie Feodorovna is dead â€" th« of the schoolâ€" overalls â€" are plowing. Martha Berry counts 2,500 boys who "lady of tears," the most tragic fig Girls in blue dresses and pink sun- have gone out from her school skill- ure among the crowned heads. Not bonnets bend, like flowers themsel- cd farmers. 371 who have become even the Empress Eugenie's chronl- ves, over flower gardens and vege- teackers and principals in rural cle of misery and grief exceeds hers, table rows. "Blue ribbon" cattle schools, 307 housewives, 25 nursea Both were as if created to convince graze In the meadows. Fruit ripens and * preachers. Others fill secre- the world that the path of glory lesda tarial and office Jobs. She sees her but to the grave as surely amont school and it methods copied by queens as among peasants; that roy other backward sections. The tar- ally wears no talisman against sor vest is in. rags, their untutored proud to accept charity. A dozen boys the "Road of Opportunity." offsets their speech. Martha Berry, the founder of the unique Berry Schools at Rome, Georgia, was born to far more cul- tured associations than those of the simple mountain folk of her country. For her was planned a more romantic future than that wliich she elected. Behind her lay all the gracious South Schools and the sublime devotion of its founder spread beyond the slate of Georgia. Men like Andrew far came. "You aim to lam us?" they asked "Ves, I aim to." "Well, weuns has come, ma-am So In return for the opportunity to negie heard and heeiled the story and learn there was wood to cut, land to started an eudownient which assured clear, a cow to milk, crops to sow and a small annual sum. Women's clubs harvest. Gradually the plan and type heard. Churches heard. Theodore of school most needed for the moun- Roosevelt exclaimod: "This is the em traditions of story and picture: a tain children took form in the mind of real tiling:" when he listened to great plantation, ft white pillared house ^'n'''li''* H<'"y; education, she decided, Martha I!.-rry tell the story ot her with broad balconies and overlianging must be like the mystic Trinity, three- school. 'There should be a school for wistaria; servants to fetch and carry; I fold yet one; of the hand, of the mind girls, too." he announced. the polished education given to the bd'I ot the heart. Education must ThroiiRli his influence it became girls of wealthy familie.'i. Her days toatdi these raw minds and untrained possible lo build the first girls' dormi- were to be those of the aristocratic hands to think, to do and to feel, tory, "Sunshine Shanty." With the Southern belle ... a laughing, joyous Essentially it must be agricultural, ' opening of this dormitory, slim, sun I chaulcs, literature and science and a Ciradually the story of the Berry normal course-train boys and girls for a practical, work-a-day life. To- day, when a mountain boy graduates from Berry he not only has an academic education, but he is an ef- ficient farmer, who has leared farm- ing by doing it. He knows the care of herds and flocks. He can build with' wood and brick or the stones of his mountains. He is ready to take up life on the soil intelligently. He has been taught sclentillc meth- ods of cultivation and fertilization; how to put nitrogenous cover crops back Into the earth, how to select seed, how to rotate crops, how to "TOG H" PAPRE HOME Rev. "Tubby" Clayton arrived In whose statesmen row. Born tbe Princess Dagmar oi Denmark, fate affianced her to thi Czarevitch Nicholas of Russia, ant fate stole him away from her througt his death from lung trouble a fen weeks before the date for their mar riage. In accordance with his dyini request, she married his brother oi October 26, 2S66. Fifteen years lat er, the Czar Alexander II, her father in-law, was assassinated by Nihllistf as he was driving through the streets of St. Petersburg. Her own husband, Alexander III died in 1S94, at the ag? of 49. It was her son who was th( last of the Romanov czars. It waa her son to whom she once said, "Nicholas, be Czar"; he who calletS the first Hague Conference for peace, later Insured the „>,uv^vw. ,,c..« ...» ,cu6....,6. jv-j>/u» - â€"- . " â€" - -= -. -.- = - ^ ..., n..M., nu..- M tl H 11 f ft Euglaud after a tour of tbi%e months World War by mobilizing after thelt girlhood; a brilliant marriage; an as- fitting lads to return to the soil from browned girls in suubounets, calico „„;,,,""„ a .i!,«>!°"l',"^c,°L!!!!^ spent In South America In the inter- feeble Czar had ordered them to re- lured social polstin. Then came the which they sprang Sunday adventure and out of it a dream which cut athwart social con- rentlons. It is an old story now in the moun- tains, worn old as a folk tale by twen- : aprons tied about their waists in the With the coming ot spring, six manner ot little old grandmothers, more boys came, one of them walking walked down the trails their brothers an ddalry A generation separates him from his father. Two hundred years separate him from his father's ests of the "Toe H", of which he Is the founder. >> A Mystic By deep self-probing he aspired to '°S find train. It was he who with his whole family, was murdered in that hor- rible cellar at Ekaterinburg. Bui not In her belief. To her end she was persuaded that he lived In hid-. Before her collapsed tte whole great Russian fabric, the great em- forty miles, driving a yoke of oxen. . had walked to enter the Horry School, "•"â- ''rstanding. " 'Tis the foe for larnin' me, ma'am,", to work with their hands for th^ privi- 1 W'^" « Birl leaves Berry she Is an he said proudly. "They're broke ter lege of an education. iCfliclent homemaker, a good mate tor ty-six years of telling and retellingâ€" 'plowin'." | "We-uns has come." they said. ' '>•"â-  farmer husband. She can cook the story of the humble beginnings of From a distant valley, leading his j "Wimmlnfolks wants larnin' same's »"d preserve and sew. She can keep The key to knowledge In his own P'""© built of blood and tears and hu the Berry Schools. ... A summer "tee" by a rope, came a lad with a men-folks." house, barnyard and dairy tidily. She deep mind; man misery that the Romanovs might Sunday afternoon when Martha Berry, sow, starved and dirty as the lad him- i So the school grew and grew; grew ; ^-'an weave and spin â€" ancient arts. Until, nerve-rackeu and with tor- '^'^ ^i"! the aristocrats play In th« a young girl JuHt home from finishing I self. Others came, bringing chickens, ' from its dozen into the hundreds. , She can work out a family budget mented soul, splendor of their liehes created by •cbool. told Bible stories in the cabin ducks to exchange for an education. ; from its dozen into the hundreds, and a balanced diet as well as an He lost his mind when he had neared ^^ ^^^ backs of the mujiks. Onl> on her fatlier's estate to three dusty 'More often they brought nothing but , Buildings multiplied. More teachers algebra problem. She Is prepared i the goal. Denmark was left to her, and Maria mountain lads she chanced upon as | strong. Milling hands. Tall, lanky ! came. More acres were cultivated, for wifehood and motherhopd, for the â€" Stanton A. Coblentz In the Xew^^°''°''''^'°^ returned to her ancea she drove home from church. Perch-) boys came who, at the age of fifteen There were additions to herds and physical care of herself and those de- And with the growth of the pendent upon her. its undaunted founder faced She is but a generation separated ed cm a soap box, with the children or sixteen, could not read or write flocks, squatting on shuck mats at her feet 'but who In three years showed as ! school York Sun. tral home. It not to her ancestral ; faith, hut not until the war had end- I ed and the revoluatlon had plalnlj Little Girl (to her playmate);, listening breathlessly, Martha Berry 'great progress as the average senior ! continually the problem of money for from her motler. Two hundred "When I was born I was so s'prised come to stay. And there she died.â€" • realized tlie poignant hunger of these | In a northern college. Its maintenance, for equipment, for years separate her from her mother's I xjouldn't speak for a whole year and The Nation, New York. starved children for knowh'dge. "Pa ez got lilm a Bible, ou'y cain't read it," sighed a lad. The next Sunday â€" "There's white trash chli'uns waitin' to see you," an- nounced the old family cook. "We braug us some sisters," .'^aid the hoys. Clesnlinets and Godliness Martha Berry looked at their hiiiids and faces, caked with grime and soil; at their matted, unkept hair; at the rags they wore. She saw with quick â- ympatliy that tlieir neglected bodies needed training and care as well as their darkened little souls. To the telling of Bible stories Were ad'led lessons in waslilng. Every Sunday that summer broiisht nore children, walking miles to hear the wonderful things the "Sunday Lady" told tlieni; stories about Aduin and Eve. about germs, about (ieorge Washington. But It was not until fall that Martha Berry discovered that she had begun a life work, started a career that she could not stop; that she had lighted the candle of hope In darken- •d Uvea around wliose flickering flame ahe must cup soft, white bands lest It blow out. Parents began to coma down from the mountains begging for "larnin"' along with their chlldr%n. Against the opposRIon of friends and shocked relatives, Martha Berry opened her first day school In the -fol- lowing spring; a one-room cabin with blanks laid across soap boxes for tbe children's benches, a large packing box for the teacher's desk. Reading, vriling, ciphering, BIb'.a atorletâ€" this was the curriculum. From miles away So the School grew. Martha Berry's' teachers. j understanding of life. She may be- 1« half!" he resources were exhausted. Still, not' It is now twenty-six years since the come a teacher to little mountain until she had literally sold or deeded three little dusty boys listened to ciilldren, but in all events, both boys all that Hh(! had given to the poor did Martha Ilerry tell magic stories In a and girls leave Berry to become November is the month of the axe. First the politician gets Is, then the turkey. "A Hunting We WiU Go' Dome Lights Restrain "Fetters" in Japan's Cars Seattle. â€" â- Automobile makers in Am- erica have been advised of the "anti- necking lamp law" In Japan, one of the most peculiar of many governing the operation of motor vehicles In the empire. The recent statute requires that all motor cars must be equipped with dome lights which must be light- ed when driving after dark. While the law was designated to protect passengers, it has since been called the "antl-uecking lamp law." Unless cars are so lighted at night the Ja^ anese police confiscate them. « It Was a Thing of the Past More than once the head ot tha household had had to rebuke ten-year- old Joan for her excessive eagerness to begin her dinner before grace had been said. Finally he determined to teach her a lesson in the presence of vlsitora. So, in his usual formula, he included this: "For what we are about to receiva and for what Joan has already eaten^ '< make us truly thankful." I « Second son ot the former kaiser tM to marry a womn who haa been twios widowed and once divorced. Hall learn all about husbands from her.-* Border Cities Star. WHEN THE BUGLE OF THE HUNTSMEN 18 SOUNDED This line tuutiag picture wus tpkeu while chilly autuinu winds blew at the start of the I2.sscx Fos Hunt at Brady's Qata, Oladatone, 'Did your frandfather live to a grren old age?" "I ahould aay s<»! H» wns (.windied three times attur he w i' aever.ty."