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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 



