THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DEC. 6, 1928 "We-Uns Has Come--Larn Us" The Pathetic Plea of Georgia Mountain Children to the Berry-Schools. Martha Berry, Founder of These Unique Institutions, Has Just Been Awarded the Pictorial Review Prize for Outstanding Achievement Perpetuating in Picture the Balaclava Charge A British Empire Called Big Factor in World Peace Sir Austen Cfiamberlain Says Canada's Couhsel Will Be Highly Valued Ottawa, Ont.--Canada's part in in-terlmpenlal and international affairs, was the/subject of two inspiring addresses given by Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary/ as .Ilmlti,?"!^ Ehe turn t0 outsiders for young life to the poor whites of go beyond the (ijsal)pr()v moun ains. her friends with the s The Project Started mountain boys begging f er next step was to open at her tion, willing to work lorn expense schools nearer' to the plow and axe and scytl ote settlements of the people^ but, might know something i ,ras not lqng before she realized ' of books, might learn how h£ - efforts on behalf of the chil-; intelligently. i v re defeated by the home en-1 Money Secure begar as she The Lady of Tears complete change j flowing was essential. Georgia ihools, a dormitory which of the uplands. An unending tile of n tl!e orc b her own money. From boys kept trickling down the moun-. -m ■ i of the school it was de- • tain trails, their packs on their backs, | ' wr0m tl i return for an education, 1 their overcoats patched, their hats ' Schools we . lodging, the boys could , battered. Footsore, shy, they stood .Tm five ( .were too poor to pay; too ; gazing through the open grates down 1 aglculture. T of herds and fl 1 , with wood and 1 of his mountain "fee' i a distant valley, ', starved and dirty as the lad him- So the ;hing self. Others came, bringing chickens, from its :abin ducks to exchange for an education, from its lusty More often they brought nothing but Buildings n as strong, willing hands. Tall, lanky came. 1 erch- boys came who, at the age of fifteen There \* dren or sixteen, could not read or,write flocks, feet, but who in three years showed as school it ciph. ' hope tp darken- hite handsTest it tains begging for their children, sition of friends ss, Martha Berry school in the fol--room cabin with >ap boxes for the a large packing i desk. Reading, ible stories--this riculum. From miles away and a balance ; algebra prqbl for wifehood a . physical care ( III fnT^oiXTrcollege6- " So the school grew. M he until she had literally so Id or deeded three little dusty *'boys' 'listened to children, but in all events, both boys ! , *,0VT,,'er y "-f montn.o£ *h; an- all that she had given to the poor did ( Marths Berry tell magic stories in a and girls leave Berry to become ^Xey. aid "A Hunting We Will Go" Dcme Lights Restrain "Petters" in Japan's Cars It Was a Thing of the Past |7j -More than once the head of th* This fine hunting picture 'Wm 1 I "Did ^ your ^grandfather live to wa-i swindled three times after he v