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Education for Mountaineers. Pre.Sident Vice-President and Organi::Er Vice-President Vvrllett M u Oberlin C·•lt!-4~ Lwruy - ' ]4111 (@uartrrly :1$lagaiiur OF THE Southern Industrial Educational Association DECEMBER, 1910. VOL, II. No. 4 . ., . · .. --~-- : 11 ';11ii 'T Southern Industrial Educational Association 1' (INCORPORATED) I I Headquarters: Washington, D. C. MARTHA S. GIELOW,, Founder ®!lirrra • Education for Mountaineers. Pre.sident Vice-President and Organi::er Vice-President vVrLLETT M. HAYS, SETJl S»:El'ARD :MARTHA s. GIELOW 1IRS. J. LOWRIE BELL Chief Justice Court of Aopeals The Farragut, Assistant ·secretary of Agriculture. District of Columbia Washington, D. C. Recording Secretary Treasurer Corresponding Secretary MRS. C. DAVID WHITJt Wherever located, 111ountains produce n1ountaineers. MILTON E. AILES MRS. J. LOWRIE.BELL 1459_ GirardJtc 1\fountaineers everyvvhere have peculiarities O\ving to their Vice-Pres. Riggs Nat. Bank 1459 Girard St., Waslungto~ p. C. Wash1ngton, • · THOMAS NELSO!>l PAGE Chairman Pubhc1ty Comnuttee. isolation. Their remoteness, often through bad roads; their isolation fron1 neighbors; their very small incomes, the small New York Auxiliary President rst Vice-President • 211d Vice-President variety of their foods; the sometimes insufficient quantity 1fis. Algernon Sydney Sullivan Miss Mary Van B~ren Vanderpool 11iss 11. S. Burkham of food and clothing; their lack of books and periodicals; 3rd Vice-President 1'lrs. George \V. Jenkins the narrow scope of the business of the mountain farin, and Treasurer Recording S ecretar)' of the cabin home, too often leave undeveloped portions of Mr. James Lees Laidlaw ?virs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler their natures. On the other hand, the virile blood which . S t r"' Assistant Treasurer Correspon d 1ng ecre a "' M Hen.,..,,. RandolQfi. Sutph. on has come to their veins from Europe and other countries, Mrs. Eugene Frayer r?- B '' N y k c 323 W.104th St., New York High ridge, ew or 1~y has resulted in their unusual development along certain Maryland Auxiliary (Baltimore) lines. In bravery, in the pride of self-support, in loyalty to President friends, in patriotic defense of their country and in their 11-!rs. J. ]. Jackson 1132 Cathedral St. 'villingness to share their last morsel \vith their fellow men, Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary Treasurer these people have developed beyond most of their race. · M Ed P L l\Irs. Eric Bergland Mrs. Frederick Tyson i rs1· 523 •p" k. A azarus 1116 Charles Street There has almost suddenly grown up in the world a won­ 251 West Preston St. ar ve. derful body of ·new knowledge relating to country life. The California Auxiliary (San· Francisco) President science of agriculture and the science of home making have Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voorhies been developed in departments of agriculture, in agricul­ 2111 California St., San Francisco tural experiment statibns and in schools of agriculture with Ist Vice-President 2nd Vice-President 1-[rs. c. C. Clay Mrs. John Garber great rapidity. The world has spent a hundred million Treasurer dollars in making investigations along this line, and it is :M:rs. N. E. Rideout Secretary offering to pick out '3,1ld give to the people of each locaiity 1950 Washington St., J:o.Ess Nora Queen that portion of this acquired infonnation needed by the Virginia Auxiliary (Richmond) farmers and home makers. The more. alert communities · Presidenr Treasurer Corresponding Secretary Miss Jane Rutherford Mrs. \Vm. A. Crenshaw · 1fiss M. E. Harvie are building agricultural schools and consolidating their 322 \Yest Grace St. 2611 \\'est Grace St. 1010 Park Ave. rural schools so that they can do the work of taking this Alabama Auxiliary new knowledge to all their people. Several thousand scien­ f"i.::e-Prc.ri.i er.!"-c!-!..er~e ' Corr.-sfc>r..!ir.:; Secreter:; tists and teachers of agriculture are taking this information P.s.U!:S Co=...._"' }.Us. CaU!-!S Hz..."'D~s ).U£.. R.... "r R!:"SRTOS ::Montsazr,c:y Trciy )lo::::~gon::.e-:-y through the schools to the young people in the country and Rcccrd:..;: Se~~;:ry Tn:=s-Arer through department and college extension \YOrk to people ~ J- Bo..-;ws ).ll:;_ CEA:ZF".:....U. Co3.:::"r \vho have passed the school age. Bt:: -- ... - E:..._:..... :::--- -,~_ ... _,.. 4 5 Since securing this new knowledge and disseminating it fa not enough flow of. wealth b.ack to the open country and to all the people has become both a State and a National to the mountams. It is to the mterest of the cities that our matter; no section of the country should be overlooked and States and governments do more for the remote sections neglected. The isolated peonle of the mountain regions -0f the country, including the mountain sei:tions. And while . would be the last to ask for assistance or information. But it is to the interest of the. cities to do so, it is justice on the they are quite as much entitled to it as the people of the part of these remote sect10ns that they receive more return plains and valleys, and possibly more in need of this infor­ for the things they give to the cities. The mountaineers, ination. The mountaineers need to know how to ·produce,. for example, are too proud to seek charity. Their pride prepare for n1arket and tral1sport the grains, vegetables and should cause them to seek justice. They have not had done fruits to which their soils and climate are suited. They for them their share in road building, in schools nor in also. need to be taught how to market their forest products the delivery of mails. Owing to their isolaton they do not to best advantage, and to make the most of the wild game appreciate and do not even know that more is due them. and wild fruits of the mountains. Each inountaineer can There is need that our mountain sections be oro-anized not make improved varieties of fruits, and cannot even 'vell both in a governmental. way a.n1 _in '.' co-operative ...:ay. If design the plan of his own farm unless by wide observation there 'vere more collective activities in harvestino- the forest .1 and training he knO¥lS all the experiments of his fellovvs. products, in making roads, in providing schools a~d churches ,1: It is wise for the nation to seek and to create new forms of and in prep.aring for mar]j:e~ an.d marketing the products of '. plants and animals and to arrange so that the growers of the mountam ho~e, mountam life :vould be better provided ' each region inay secure a start in these new forms, that they for all along the hne. The mountams would produce better may all share in the benefits and that all consumers may folks. · · II have cheaper products. It is the business of the Nation and The mountain school system needs more or less of re­ the State to find which method of' farming, which method -organization. In many cases two or more schools should of growing each crop, \vhich method of preparing for n1ar­ be brought together. In the. larger school a lono-er term ket and which method of marketing is best, and .to .could. be provided and a higher salary could be pald, possi­ widely disseminate the knowledge of these · best bly high enough to secure teachers who can teach mountain inethods. The mountaineer home maker also needs to agriculture an_d inountain home maki.ng. In many cases 1'I know the best ways of mountain home making, not only in there should be not only more of consolidation but an itiner­ fi the different sections of her own region, but also in other ant teacher might be provided who could sp.,,;d one week in mduntain regions, that she may ,make a home that con­ turn at each of !our sch<;>ols, giving each one week per :111 tains all the comforts and sweetness of which a home in the month. There migllt be eight schools in the itinerant dis­ ~! mountains is capable. Even in their social affairs inoun­ trict and two itinerant teachers. The teacher of mountain taineers should have means of knowing the best customs far1ning might give each ~_chool one ~eek in every eight, l!1 ·of mountain folks in all mountain regions. Isolation gives and the teacher of mountam home makmg might also be at rise to many difficulties in coui1try life. These difficulties each school one week every two months. Then there are ~I are often multiplied in mountain life. needed more schools like Miss Berry's to which the moun­ 1 There is a constant flow of wealth from the open country taineer. children can go for hi!jh sch.ool work that they may and from the mountains to the cen~ers of populatiqn. There return as teachers or leaders tn their home communities. 11 11: ii' J: l1 _:_.·· 31 ·.:·: .· ... 6 7 In fe\v lines will private 111011ey do n1ore good in educat~ou The English of the Mountaineer. than for edtication for 1nountaineers in the Appalachian Mountains. And probably no money can be there spent to ANTOINETTE BIGELOW: better advantage than in organizing the .elementary scho<:>ls. The sPeech of any isolated, ho111ogeneous group of people But t11ere is vast need also for boarding schools \vh1ch presents a many-sided interest. If the group lives close to the older pupils who have not ~ood school facilities at home the soil amidst natural beauty, the speech may have a can attendi It may be that s~me county sup~rintendents strong!J poetic bent. If it became isolated a hundred or could use private money as well as n1ore pubhc m.o?ey to 1nore years ago it may hav~ such echo~s from th_e past that very great advantage in the way of better superv1s10n of both philologist and poet will stop to listen.
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