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opening of “moon-light’” schools in the Kentucky mountains in 1911 for 
children, parents, and grandparents. When the feud breaks out, mountain 
mothers from the section in which blood is shed, anxious to get their sons 
out of danger, are wont to urge them to attend school at Berea College and 
elsewhere. 
Though in some sections enthusiasm for education is becoming great, 
in others there is great apathy, because of lack of interest on the part of 
the people, lack of practical teaching, illiterate teachers, poverty, poor 
roads, and political interference in school affairs. In some districts it is 
still thought by the school trustee that “the lickinest teacher makes the 
7. ‘‘The telephone whispers through the silent hills,’’ near Booneville, Ky. 
knowinest younguns”’. Changing conditions are indicated by an incident 
in which two teachers appeared in the same schoolroom, each determined 
to become the sole teacher. The following among the pupils was about 
equally divided at first, but presently they moved away from the teacher 
using the “A. B. C.”’ method and grouped themselves about the more pro- 
gressive instructor who was following the sentence method. The broad 
effort is being made to teach the people how to work and live according to 
modern ideas, and yet to retain the desirable traits of their own civiliza- 
tion. This is a delicate task, involving much more than merely academic 
training. 
Religion is undergoing transition slowly. Formerly if a speaker did 
