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Faith and hope are abundant when Spring flowers and trees renew their lives. The message of joy and Life Eternal which comes with Easter gives added hope and faith to all the world.
There are sections of this great land where homes see little of any such hope and have little faith in the joy of life.
For years Martha Berry has tried to reach such homes with a message of hope and the light of education which has given a new faith to many boys and girls.
A comparatively few friends have helped Martha Berry in this work. Many others are needed to make the work more farreaching and helpful.
At this Easter Season will you help a work which carries the message of Faith, Hope and Love to so many who otherwise might be without it?
THE BERRY SCHOOLS
(Incorporated) MOUNT BERRY, GA.

THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDER

Copyright applied'for by The Berry Schools (Incorporated) "Acceptance for mailing at special rate for postage provided for in Section 1103, Act

VOL. XVI

SPRING, 1924

Issued Four Times a Year

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No. 4

CONTENTS

Miss Berry's Letter_ 2

Founder's Day_;_ 4

Aunt Martha_ 6

Donna Santa Borghese Comes to Berry_ 7

Possum Trot School House_ 8

High Honors Come to Berry Graduates_

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A Larger Dairy Barn_ 11

My Life Story_ 12

House o' Dreams_ 14

Appreciation of Berry Industries_ 15

Editorial _ 16

A Parable_17

Untrained Teachers in Rural Schools_18

Alumni Support Growing___ 20

John Philip Sousa Praises Berry Band_21

An Industrial Building_22

Overall Men Visit Berry_

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"I Want to Come to Your School"_24

Martha Berry in Homespun_25

A Mother's Plea_

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Mary's Dilemma_

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Teaching Farming at Berry Schools_

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New Home for Faith Cottage Family_30

The Cover Page_32

Miss Berry's Letter
Dear Friends:
In January we celebrated our 22nd anniversary. Old Roanie, the Sunday School horse, was brought over to my home. Al though he is over thirty years old, he still prances and looks very proud when the boys lead him out to the music of the band. Roanie and I led the procession to the little cabin where I taught a few children and dreamed the dream of the Berry Schools. Looking back over the twenty-two years of work and struggle, joys and sorrows, I feel so thankful for the friends that God has given us, friends that have helped us throughout the years. Their names are not only engraven upon our school books, they are engraven in my heart. Friends who have invested in the boys and girls and shared with us our ups and downs seem doubly dear. I wish they all could see the six hundred splendid boys and girls grouped around the cabin.
Last year's graduating class of boys and girls, subscribed $750.00 to the Alumni Fund. They have already paid half this amount. The Alumni Association pledged $20,000 to our En dowment and already half of the amount has been paid in. These boys and girls have to begin at the bottom and many have to help the home people--younger brothers and sisters, as well as fathers and mothers. The action of last year's gradua tion indicates that in the not far future the schools will be helped by her Alumni in an ever increasing way. This will insure the future of the schools and help to keep the doors open to the class of people for whom it was established.
Reviewing the history of the schools, the gifts invested in these boys and girls have paid tremendous dividends. The boys and girls who have been helped at Berry are leaders, not only in their home communities but their influence is being felt through out the surrounding localities.
We still have no paid agent in the field and for the past two years I have not been able to travel. So, the daily mail and the gifts that come from friends are doubly welcome. They not only help the boys and girls and encourage the teachers and workers at Berry, but bring me great cheer and sunshine.
I want to earnestly plead that after reading this Highlander you will pass it on to some friend, because I am depending upon friends and friends of friends to help make 1924 one of the great years for Berry.
Faithfully yours,

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MISS BERRY AND HER NORTH GEORGIA NEIGHBOR, MRS. CORRA HARRIS Mrs. Harris believes in the work Miss Berry is doing and has said so in a number of her articles.

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When we consulted our calendar When we reflect that the theory of

and discovered that Founder's Day our "social responsibility" had not,

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would fall upon a Sunday this year, at that time, been taught in any of

we said: "We shall have to cele the schools of the land, that twenty-

brate on Saturday or Monday, of two years ago there was little atten

course." Then we thought again, and tion to sociology as a science, that the

it burst upon us like an inspiration terms, "social mind," "social con

that Sunday was the most fitting science," and "the solidarity of so

day, after all, upon which to ob ciety" had not even been coined, it

serve the birthday of a great enter is the more remarkable that a young

prise that had its beginning in a Sun poman in a protected home of ease

day School and that has carried the and comfort should have had the for

name and the spirit of its origin ward-looking discernment that led

through its entire history.

her to do the thing that it has taken

The gayer features of the annual the country two decades to catch up

celebration were therefore omitted, with. She was doing just what the

and we gathered in the grove sur new Labor Premier of England de

rounding the old cabin -- the log clares to be the purpose of all his

cabin in the woodland adjoining the struggling, "To enable every man to

beautiful Colonial home of Miss stretch forth his hand and grasp some

Berry's childhood, and there we sang of the glory of life to which all are

the old hymns and the Sunday School Ijieirs."

songs that the "Sunday Lady" used As we stood in the grove that Sun

to play on the little old melodeon to day afternoon--a staff of more than lead the country children in their sixty workers and nearly six hun

singing in those good old days.

dred students--and thought back

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over a score of years to the first group of a few country girls and boys stray ing down the trails to the little cabin, we were obliged to exclaim in rev erent wonder, "Behold what God hath wrought."
A student from the Boys' School came forward and told Miss Berry in a few simple, dignified words of the love and loyalty of the students, then a girl from the Girls' School said, "Although our school is not so old, we are just as loyal. It thrills us to think of the five thousand hearts that are turning back to Berry in love and remembrance today. To you, Miss Berry, we can say nothing more than, "Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates."
A boy from the Foundation School then came forward, and, as is always the case with an unaccustomed speaker, expressed in a lengthened and flowery speech the good will and

appreciation of the boys in his group. An alumnus in the crowd stepped for ward and gave his tribute in a hearty, genuine way--the way of a man who has seen life outside and has dis covered where lies the secret of achievement. What the alumnae and alumni are doing, the sort of men and women they are becoming, is the test of Berry's worth--and these old stu dents--community builders now in many states--are rising up to bless Miss Berry.
The most pleasing incident of this celebration was the presence of "Aunt Martha," Miss Berry's old negro Mammy, who has been in the family for many, many years, and who, this Sunday afternoon, stood in the cabin door--a trim, prim figure--a loving beholder of the success and reward of the work of her "Miss Matty," whom she praises and scolds by turns in the gooff AM-fashioned manner of the Black Mammy.

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AUNT MARTHA

This is a picture of my dear old black mammy. She is 81 years old and surely one of the most wonderful characters I have ever known. I cannot remember when I have not known her and when her kind and capable hands have not ministered unto me. She thinks she owns me and when I go home she wants to know all about the schools and what they are giving me to eat. She thinks no one can fix things for me to eat as well as she can do it. She says she "raised" all her children alike but the others all got married and their troubles are "jes natural trubbles" but that my troubles are not natural troubles because the Lord did not send them but I "jes picked 'em up.
MARTHA BERRY.

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THE DINING HALL; FOUNDATION SCHOOL
The students are completing this building which they have occupied since September. The construction is of native stone picked up on' the mountain by the boys.
As yet no one has paid for this building. Miss Berry built it on Faith, believing that some one would help her before it was finished. Whose name shall it bear?

Donna Santa Borghese Conies to Berry

When we speak of a man as a Berry introduced her in chapel at the

"`prince among men," we are thinking different schools, she spoke mainly of

of princely character and not title, her pleasure in being here and her

so deep-rooted is the feeling that cer interest in education, but in the fa

tain qualities should belong to rank miliar talks at luncheon and after

and good name. In the Princess noon tea, Miss Berry led her on to

Santa Borghese we felt that quality speak of affairs in Italy, of the great

and rank were in absolute harmony, international concerns that involve

for she seemed in very truth a prin her country and ours alike, of the

cess among women.

Fascisti movement, of Mussolini,

We had read of her that she likes whose gifts she admires and with

best her title of "Doctor," as she has whom she had a conference which she

earned that for herself, while the described very vividly.

"Princess" title came by the accident She believes that the present Na

of birth. Certainly she has the tionalist movement in her country

"noblesse oblige" which lays upon will lead to a stronger international

one the compulsion of being worthy of an ancient and honorable name.

consciousness and that every effort must be bent towards the preventing

We had read of her titles and of future wars.

honors. We knew that she had her "If another war should come it

degree from the public classical school of Rome at eighteen, had then spent two years in the study of Eng lish literature in Lady Margaret's Hall, Oxford; that she was later given a first degree from the Univer sity of Rome and a Ph. D., from the ancient University of Bologna, that she is a sculptor of no small ability, a speaker of force and a writer of talent, but we did not know that she was so youthful and so comely as she appeared on that delightful day at Berry School. Her manner was so charming and her interest in the things she was seeing so genuine and

would be a terrible disaster. We feel the lowering of standards in every department of living through the last struggle. In education, in physique
it has taken a crippling toll. "So, whether we look upon war
with international consciousness or with the primal human instinct to preserve our own hearths--it must not be permitted to come."
The Princess said, "My day at Berry has been one of the happiest in America." As she stepped into the car to go to her train, the girls, waving Italian flags that Miss Berry had hurriedly produced from her for

spontaneous, every one was capti eign trunk, gave the Berry Call and

vated by the radiant personality of added, "A rivederci, Santa Borg

this brilliant and enthusiastic young hese." "Oh, that was perfect," she

woman.

cried with a final farewell wave of

In her formal talks, when Miss her hand.

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Possum Trot School House
(A story of the early days at The Berry Schools) By Martha Berry

In the midst of the piney woods, away from civilization was an old shell of a house built long before the Civil War. To get to this house you had to cross a small creek called Possum Trot Creek, and it was said that it was s^fcamed because the possums were so 1 plentiful in the neighboring woods.
I opened a Sunday School in this house, but it really could not be called a house, because the roof leaked so that it was almost impossible on rainy days to hold any kind of a school.
One Sunday at Sunday School we had a lesson upon peacemakers and upon forgiveness. Knowing that the people had a great many feuds among themselves, and for little things would fall out and live for years with out speaking to their neighbors, I tried to make the lesson as impressive as possible, and talked with all the enthusiasm that I could put into it. The next morning I saw a poor woman and a little child coming up our avenue with a large bundle in her arms. I was rather disturbed to have one of the Sunday School pupils call when I was so busy with my morning's work, but I put every thing down to find out what she wanted and let her go. My first ques tion was, "What can I do for you, Mrs. Duncan?" She said, "Wal, I 'lowed that being as you talked so much and so good about forgiveness, that I'd better forgive Virgil, my hus band, and get him to come back and live with me. Ma 'lowed that if I was going to make up with Virgil that I must take my things and leave

her house and never come back no more; an' so I jest put on my best clothes, and then put all of Mary Jane's clothes and the rest of mine in that bag thar and come along down here to your house to get you to find Virgil for me." As I looked down into this young, girlish face--for she was only seventeen--with pleading brown eyes and a pathetic droop to her thin, stooped shoulders, and real ized that she had walked seven miles through the piney woods, lugging her baby and her bag of clothing, to reach my home, and saw what faith she had that I would find her husband for her, and in the meantime care for her and her baby, I was rather taken aback, and wondered how I would manage this problem. Upon inquiry I found that her husband was work ing about ten miles from where we lived, and that I would have to try and get him to come to us by sending a message to him immediately. I was afraid to say that his wife wanted to see him for fear he would not come, so I hired a boy and told him to go and find Virgil and tell him that Miss Berry wanted to see him on very important business as soon as possible, and that she would pay him if he would come immedi ately.
In the meantime Mrs. Duncan and her fretful baby had to sit in my room for the remainder of the day. Our house was crowded with company, and our cook was very busy prepar ing an especially nice dinner for the guests. When dinner time arrived, I went down and asked her to please let me have some dinner to carry up-

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stairs to my uninvited guests. She is an old negro woman who has been with us for thirty years, and feels as if we all belong to her. She imme diately said that she could not fix any meals for poor white folks, and that they could take themselves to some other place if they wanted to be fed. Then, looking at me in the most pity ing way, she said, "Law, child, honey, I don't know what to make of you; seems like I raised you up with the balance to associate with quality and let poor white folks alone. If you don't look out, you'll be a-disgracing of yourself and all the res' of our family, which have been notable folks ever since long befo' de war." I did not stop to argue with her, but bided my time, and when she was busy in the pantry I immediately filled a

plate with bread, potatoes, and some chicken, and slipped upstairs with it to my company.
As the afternoon began to lengthen we both watched anxiously for the coming of Virgil. I was wondering what I could do with this poor young woman, who did not know how to do anything, if he should decide not to come and if he would not take her back.
Just at sundown I saw Virgil com ing. He was a ve^rlarge, tall man, with a rather stupid face, but not an unkind one. As soon as I saw him I had Mrs. Duncan pick up the baby, grab her sack of clothes, and start to meet him. She insisted that I should go with her, but I told her that I could not; that all depended upon her
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High Honors to Berry Graduates
Maude Receives Scholarship

One of the most popular graduates of the class of 1923 at Berry is the recipient of a scholarship to an Art School in Philadelphia. The scholar ship was given by the Philadelphia Auxiliary of the Southern Industrial Educational Society. Berry Schools were asked to enter a candidate in competition with other schools and Maude McD., one of the outstanding girls among the graduates was se lected by the schools. Some of the handcraft work made by her while at Berry was sent to be placed in competition as were her grades and various letters of commendation by Miss Berry and members of the faculty.
Maude and the whole school, in fact, awaited anxiously the word which would give the results of the competition. One bright day a letter was received from Philadelphia an nouncing to Miss Berry that Maude had been selected. Maude is to help herself by working in one of Phila delphia's fine homes in return for her board and lodging. She is now hard at work preparing for greater useful ness in life. If her record is any thing like it was at Berry we shall always hear of Maude at the head of her class in studies as well as in sport and other activities.
Just before Maude left for Phila delphia she wrote Miss Berry as fol lows :
Dear Miss Berry: I appreciate the very kind interest you have taken in me and I feel that I am very fortu nate in being selected for the schol arship given by the Southern Indus trial Educational Association. I re alize that had it not been for Berry

Schools I would not have been given this opportunity. I love the school dearly because it was my home for five years. The teachers were pa tient, loving mothers, the boys and girls true brothers and sisters and I like to think of you as my GodMother. I just hope that I will be able to pass on the spirit of my Alma Mater.
I am going to do my best so that other girls may have even greater opportunities.
Faithfully yours, MAUDE.
A member of the Philadelphia Aux iliary writes Miss Berry: "We are delighted with the reports from the faculty of the School of Designing. I know that you will be happy to know that one of your Berry girls is `making good.' I hope you will train another to take Maude's schol arship when her course is com pleted."
Elected County Superintendent
"Have been re-elected County School Superintendent over two op ponents." Signed A. J. This tele gram was received by Miss Berry one morning recently from a grad uate of the schools who for the past ten years has given his life to the education of the young people in the county from which he came to Berry.
"A. J." has made wonderful prog ress as an educator. The first school he taught was a large rural school in his county; later he was promoted to the Rural High School, just estab lished at that time. Four years ago he was elected as the County Super intendent of Schools and again this

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year he was elected to fill another four years of service to his fellowmen. This is just another example of the manner in which Berry men progress in their efforts to serve. They are all anxious to share with Miss Berry the news of their success for to her they feel indebted for the training that has made success pos sible.
A LARGER DAIRY BARN
The Dairy Department at Berry Schools has for the past eight years been in charge of a Berry Schools Graduate and has made unusual progress in developing a Jersey herd. The pure bred cows sent to the Fairs last fall brought home three Grand Championship ribbons, 19 First

Place ribbons, 14 Second Place rib bons and a large number of ribbons for places lower than second.
This indicates intelligent care and hard work especially when one con siders the fact that in 1916 there were no pure-breds in the herd and that comparatively little money was spent on building up the herd.
The present quarters has served since 1912 and are far from ade quate. The student body requires milk as part of the diet and the in creased size of the herd is a neces sity.
Some friend is needed to help with this need and assist the schools in turning out competent dairymen and in supplying all the milk necessary for the large student body.

My Life Story
By a Berry Student

In the year 1905 I was born in an old-fashioned hewn log house and the chimney was made of mud and sticks. The cracks of the house were ceiled on the inside with hewn boards and filled on the outside with mud.
At the age of six years my father was taken from our home leaving us poor children with nothing ahead and no one to work for us. All that we got had to come from the farm by our own labor. In eleven months after father went mother was taken away leaving us three children alone in the world.
After living with distant relatives until I was the age of fifteen years I began to see that I needed an educa tion. Not knowing where I was go ing I went to a man and began to work for wages to earn money to go to school on. With wages at $12.00 per month I soon saw that I could never save enough to go to school for board and tuition was high at schools that I had heard of. While working I took night classes under the country preacher to try to learn to read and write. From here I went to a job in a country store where there were bootleggers coming in every night. It was here that I tried to work arith metic and failed. I had reported thir teen of the bootleggers which made the man I worked for very angry and he told me that I had to leave his store. I was ready to give up as it seemed that I could not live right and ever find a school so I could go to school like boys that I had heard about.
One afternoon while I was very down hearted I picked up my Sunday school book to study my lesson and I

read in the back of it that Miss Mar tha Berry at Mount Berry, Ga., had a school where poor boys who had not had a chance could go to school and work their way. As I was not afraid of work I knew that was the place for me so I wrote Miss Berry and she answered and said for me to write the Principal for application blanks. The Principal told me that if I had sixty-five dollars I could come. This was a very dark time for me as I did not have the money. I didn't even have railroad fare. As the school was very crowded they said that they would put my application on file. I did not know what this meant. I thought it meant that I could not come. I was very dis couraged and did not know how I ever would get to go to school.
On March the first I received a let ter from Berry Schools saying that I was accepted as a work student. I asked the man I was working for how much money was due me and he said $1.25. The railroad fare was $8.35 and I did not know where it was com ing from. The next morning about 4 o'clock I got up and walked two miles to a lady's house and asked her to help me get the money to go to the Berry Schools. The lady told me that she could not help me as she did not have the money. Not knowing what to do I went back to work to try to earn the money but it took all that I could make to live. One day I met a man and showed him the cata log of the school and told him how I wanted to go to that school and he let me have the money. This made me very happy and I shall never for-

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get the man that made it possible for

me to reach Berry.

On the 8th of March, 1922 I arrived

at Mount Berry in a pouring rain.

I soon met the teachers and was told

what to do and where I would room.

After spending this time at Berry

I have found it to be everything that

I had expected. It certainly does give a boy a chance to get an education.

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WHAT BERRY HAS MEANT TO ME
Berry has meant to me more than I can express in words. I don't be lieve there is any one who has ever been here that Berry has meant so much to as it has to me. Miss Berry's ideas in this school have made me want to be loyal to my country, to always stand up for the poor, to stand up for the oppressed, and not to seek for fame or name, nor for wealth, not for power, not for privilege; it has caused me to want to give my services to my fellow men and the one who has established such an institution. It has made me want to live a life worth while; it has caused me to see the mistakes that have been made in life. Miss Berry's influence has caused me to want to renounce world ly things. It has made me feel that I have a duty in life that no one else can do. Berry has given me the privi lege that I could not have gotten any where else, therefore, I am willing to work for it, to give all that I have, all that I am, all my hope in life for it. It has meant to me a clearer vision of life; it has helped me not to be ashamed of Christianity. Having

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Berry has meant to him for our readers.
seen Miss Berry's great work, I am now ready to devote myself to the service that I can render to my fel low men and to my country. It has meant to me a life of prayer and communion with God. As He has called me, I will lay down my life for His service. It has made me want to tell the story of a dear person who is willing to sacrifice her life for the interest of poor boys and girls of our country. It has made me want to pass on to others what she has done for me. It has made me want to go into the rural districts where there are no Christian schools for the boys and girls who know nothing about real life and to render service worth while. These are the ideas that Ber ry has fixed in my mind.
--Written for The Berry News by a Berry Student.

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The little house on top of Mount Berry, built of native stone, is a place where I can go and rest and sun my soul; where I can take workers and friends, where we can "go apart" and return to our work renewed and

this little house we overlook the entire "Kingdom of Berry" and with a strong glass we can see the boys plow ing and cultivating the fields and see the girls working among the shrubs and flowers on the campus.

strengthened. This house is one of my long cher
ished dreams that has come true. From this little "House o' Dreams" we can see far in the distance the sharp blue line of Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. Mountain ranges are all around us, and just below is the Foundation School, the Berry School's Forest Reserve of splendid Georgia pine; and beyond, the Girls' School, with its brown log buildings, nestles among the hills like a little brown thrush. Farther on is the

AN ALABAMA BERRY HOME
The other day in a speech in At lanta, Superintendent Willis Sutton, of the Public Schools of the city, said, "I was on a little trip into middle Ala bama a few weeks ago, and, traveling through the country I came upon a farm and a home that looked--`dif ferent,' better kept, more pleasing in every way, and I inquired into the reason and found that it was the

colonial chapel and brick buildings of home of a Berry School couple. You the Boys' School, in a beautiful grove can tell them every time--those Ber of elms, oaks and dogwoods. From ry School homes."

Appreciation of Berry Industries

The interchange of ideas between have been used in the production of

those who are working for like ends brooms and brushes of every con

is always stimulating, and at Berry ceivable kind. The flax, grown on

we are especially privileged in having the Berry farm and the wool from

school people come to us from all sec the sheep and Angora goats on the

tions of our own country and from mountain side at the Foundation

foreign lands as well. Among those School, have furnished materials for

engaged in teaching with the special a greater number and variety of ex

idea of relating manual labor to men quisite woven things than ever before,

tal development, coming to us for a while the waste bits of cotton and

visit this spring, were Misses C. L. wool rags that come from the sewing

and M. S. Wolfe, of Sandringham, room have been converted into things

England, who were in charge of of beauty and delight by busy hands

school sponsored by Queen Alexan in Sunshine. Nothing is wasted. Old

dra, but which had to be abandoned pickle bottles and jelly glasses are

after the war on account of the high transformed into useful and beautiful

prices necessary to be paid for ma vases and a cautious visitor will hold

terials with which to work.

his hat carefully in his hand for fear

The "Miss Wolfes," as the English that before he leaves it may have

say, came to Berry to study the in been changed into a rug or a pin

dustrial system used here and found cushion.

much, they said, that they might To most of our students, who come

adapt to their needs and the condi to us with about as much imagina

tions of their work, if they should tion as the celebrated Peter Bell of

be so fortunate as to reorganize it. whom Wordsworth said:

The post war advance in the cost of "A primrose by the river's brim

materials has affected Berry, also, A yellow primrose was to him--

and it has been only by the most rigid And it was nothin more."

economy and resourcefulness that the it is a great revelation to learn that

industrial work has been kept going. grandmother's old coverlet is a thing

Materials immediately at hand have been used almost altogether, the honeysuckle vine which grows in pro fusion about the campus has been used not only for ornamental baskets of every description, but for mats and

of artistic value and that corn stalks and gourds may with a little art and taste be made beautiful and that they can go back to the little cabin home and redeem it from ugliness by the touch of this magic.

candle holders and sandwich trays. The girls from the low country have

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sent home for the long leaf pine Money which comes to the Endow

needles which have been used, and are ment Fund will continue to help stu

always admired, in baskets and mats. dents. No greater investment can be

From different parts of the state old made than one which will return a

students have sent gourds, which fund for training young men and

work up into artistic flower holders, women for Christian leadership in

and the broom corn and bamboo canes each generation.

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Published by The Berry Schools Copyright applied for
Founded by Miss Martha Berry, January 13, 1902,
At Mt. Berry, near Rome, Ga. OFFICERS
John J. Eagan, Atlanta.President Robert F. Maddox, Atlanta.Treasurer Martha Berry, Rome.Director
EDITORIAL
THE STIR OF NEW LIFE AND NEW HOPE
Perhaps in the country more than elsewhere the coming of the spring time is felt. Winter has shut us in until we are sick of four walls and a ceiling, we have need of the sky we have business with the grass.
The feeling that impelled Chaucer's Pilgrims "to goon on pilgrimages" still stirs the far-away descendants of those old Normans and Saxons on this side the seas to get out into the fields and to delve in the soil, "Whan that Aprille with his shoures
sote, The droghte of March hath perced to
the rote." The boy who said the other day, "These spring days make me want to get out and plow," litttle knew how deep-seated a call of the blood of his forbears was stirring in him. A day's plowing, with the smell of the fresh

earth and the pride of the straight furrows, can yield as much genuine pleasure as an eighteen hole round on the golf links. And the fine, healthy boy in overalls at Berry School, com ing in from the fields hungry for sup per is full of the satisfaction of "something accomplished, something done." He is earning his board and keep for a term in school.
The men and women who are put ting their money in this investment to support the work, to buy the tools, to pay the cost of keeping it going, are doing a thing the results of which in substantial citizenship and honest work, with the hope of a more intelli gent and energetic conquering of la bor difficulties, are beyond all calcu lating.
At this Easter time when we feel with especial keenness the inrush of a new sense of life--physical and spiritual--we cannot but speak our gratitude to those who have had the eyes to see what Miss Berry is trying to do here in this school and who have not withheld their giving, and have had so large a part in creating this work so full of new life and new hope.
SOME OF OUR NEEDS We need a hospital. A centrally lo
cated hospital with all modern equip ment and conveniences. Our doctor says we must have one. We have out grown our little infirmary and it is inadequate for present needs. It is expensive to send students into town, and it is impossible for us to care for them as we should in our small in firmary.
WHO WILL GIVE US A HOS PITAL? We hope that before an other Highlander is printed some one will read between the lines and see what a great and far-reaching

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gift a hospital would be and give it to Berry.
We need a workshop. $2,500 would give us a good workshop. The need of a workshop is great and we hope to build one this summer. Will not some one who is interested in train ing boys send us the money for this shop? It would be a wonderful in vestment--a gift turned into human dividends.
We need a cannery at the Founda tion School. Great interest has been taken at the Foundation School in planting out 3,000 apple and peach trees. We have a wonderful growing orchard here. The boys are inter ested in grafting and pruning. We must have a cannery. $1,500 will give us a cannery and equip it for use. This would indeed be a timely gift.
We must have a library. We have no place where teachers can go sun their souls in the companionship of books. How much it would mean if some would give us this building. We have plans made for it, corre sponding with the architecture of the other buildings on the campus.
We need an addition to our endow ment of at least One Million Dollars!
We need funds for operating ex penses, in any amount.
We need $150 for a scholarship to help some boy or girl for one year.
We need $50,000 for a dormitory at the Foundation School.
SCHOLARSHIPS One hundred and fifty dollars ($150) will provide a scholarship for a boy or a girl. Miss Berry raises the deficit which amounts to more than $300 on each student. Money is needed to provide for the many stu dents "who want to come." Will you send some? Any amount will help.

A PARABLE
Once upon a time there was a poor old odd-job man, who rented a little shack of a cabin on the outskirts of a little village, a tumbled down little shanty it was, and the owner was glad enough to get the two or three dollars a month the old man offered to pay.
Time went on. The odd-job man would bring home in the evenings
little scraps of lumber and little rem nants of paint, given to him by this one and that one for whom he oddjobbed, and a few seed from a gar den in which he made his day's wage by hoeing or plowing.
So, what with a bit of scrappy tin
roofing here and there, and a few feet of lumber, and a dab of paint from
one pot and another, his little cabin became a habitable sort of place, with a few rows of beans in the gar den and a flower or two at the door step. And one day the landlord rode by and said, "Well, Lije, I did not know this was such a good looking place. I'll have to raise your rent." And he did, my masters, he did!
How like that has been Miss Berry's work! She took a lot of poor land and made it productive and some acres of scrub woods and reclaimed it for use, and got her students to gether and taught them how to work and keep things up and make the place pleasant to the eye, and people ride by and say, "You look so pros perous, you don't need any money." The Governor of the state rides by and says, "I'll have to increase your taxes. You ought to have been pay ing taxes for twenty years."

Untrained Teachers in Rural Schools

Georgia Rural Schools Supervisor Speaks at Berry

"There are nine hundred thousand children of school age in the state of Georgia." Mr. W. L. Duggan, Super visor of Rural Schools, speaking be fore the Teachers' Institute and the students of the Berry Schools made the above statement. He said that in a great many counties where the pro rata tax rate is low the children are not given the training they deserve. "Georgia has as good school laws as any state in the Union yet these laws are not properly enforced or adminis tered. Only thirteen per cent of the children in the one-teacher school reach the seventh grade. Because of the lack of funds to pay well trained teachers many of our rural schools must necessarily take very poorly pre pared teachers. Some, I am sorry to say, must content themselves with teachers who have not reached the seventh grade, but are willing to ac cept the pittance and train others as best they can.
Concerning the Berry Schools Mr. Duggan made the following state ment : "There is nothing which means as much to the state as this institution. I can fully appreciate with my larger viewpoint the oppor tunities the boys and girls are get ting here; but what I appreciate more than the marvelous opportunities is the spirit that pervades the school. In my travels I meet men and women who were once like you. They came to this school without any education, and went away with trained minds and stalwart characters. The poorest part of the homes from which they came was poverty of opportunity. I have not seen a single one who is a failure. I have not seen a single one

who is not a good citizen. You can judge the character of a school by its pupils. I judge an institution by the pupils who leave it. I have never found a product of this school who was not loyal to the school and living up to its ideals. Edison once lament ed that so much power goes to waste, even regretting that the force of the sea's tidal waves beating against miles and miles of cost could not be conserved--but to me the human power that goes to waste is terrible." All the money that goes to help Berry Schools prevent this waste is well in vested.
SCHOLARSHIPS TO EDU CATE UNTRAINED TEACHERS
Unless someone sends scholarships to pay for the first term of girls who are applying now we will have to postpone granting them the oppor tunity of entering to work for their tuition. We choose the most needy of the girls who are already in school and have proved themselves worthy and allow them to remain during the summer to earn their tuition for the next school year. With our limited space at the Girls' School and com paratively few opportunities for work we cannot hope to prepare for service all the worthy girls who ap ply to us. All the requests we receive now from girls who want to work this summer must be refused.
We receive letters from girls and young women who are teaching al though they have not finished or in some cases even entered a high school. We see the results of their attempting to teach in the students who come to

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us from their schools. If we could find it out from.

provide scholarships for just those I have three sisters whom are inter

who are teaching now, those who ested in coming too or at least we

realize their limitations and wish to want to fall on some plan to finish

really fit themselves for teaching, we our education & we are poor girls but

would be doing a great service. Some we are enteresting in a literary &

of our best students are those who musical education. We have been

have been teaching for a period of singing female quartette's for four

years and come to us for further years & we are enterested in our

preparation. If we could train these work.

girls who are planning to resume As it is so much pleasure for us to be

their teaching when they are better to-gether we don't want to be separ

prepared the results would be far- ated if we can help it.

reaching.

Let us know what time we can

Two typical letters are quoted:

enter this summer to begin our work

"I want to know of what plans I for the fall term."

can work my way through school. I "I have taught four years and am

want to know if I can work this sum teaching now but like one year finish

mer in advance to my fall term. I ing High School. Could you get me a

have two more years in high School. place so I could teach and take some

I have taught two terms successfully, classes too ? I can furnish good For my reccommendations I can send reccommendations from the schools I

you as many names as you want to have taught."

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Alumni Support Growing

The graduates and former students of The Berry Schools have always been first to come to the assistance of Miss Berry so far as their means and influence would permit. Individ uals have given toward the expenses of the school ever since the first one graduated. Necessarily these indi vidual gifts had to be small. A re cent effort to combine these small gifts for a larger showing resulted in twenty thousand dollars pledged by the Alumni with half that amount paid or underwritten.
From boys and girls to whom every dollar means a sacrifice this showing is more than gratifying. The Alumni say that the Twenty-fifth Anniver sary in 1927 will find the $20,000.00 and more paid into the endowment fund of The Berry Schools.
The spirit of giving and sacrifice was contagious and the class of 1923 subscribed 100%. Every member pledging ten dollars to the cause of a greater and a bigger Berry Schools. This amount was to be paid within two years of their graduation and at this writing more than fifty per cent of the class have made good their pledge.
The action of this class and the Alumni in general is an evidence of loyalty and devotion which assures a larger and increasing support from former students. It indicates that in the future Berry's own graduates will help their many friends in lifting their share, be that ever so humble, of Miss Berry's burden.
Perhaps this action will suggest to others the need for a permanent en dowment at Berry to which they may contribute their gift, large or small. This is needed to insure an adequate

service at Berry to those who come seeking an opportunity.
A Few Extracts From Alumni Letters
"Enclosed find my check for $100.00 which you will please apply to my Alumni Endowment pledge. We are just emerging from several trying years and now that I can see ahead I hope to be in shape in the near future to help in some way the school that meant so much to me. I am prone to think back to the days at dear "Old Berry" where I learned to know what real life and living is. I often think of . . . the teachers who took such a personal interest in me as they did in each boy there."
"I am herewith enclosing my pledge to the Alumni Endowment Fund. I am not able to make it what I want to make it. I wish I could subscribe with the $250.00 to $500.00 class but my income as a country teacher will not allow it. However, I am pledging $100.00.
I am getting $40.00 less per month this year than I was last year. My Board is giving me all they can under the circumstances. School funds are very short this year. I hope later to increase my gift considerably."
". . . I am sending the pledge filled out to the Alumni Endowment Fund. . . . Only those who have known `Old Berry' can really appre ciate the good work that is being done there."
"I am enclosing my subscription for $150.00 toward the Endowment Fund. It is no use to say that I would

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like to give more. It is my purpose to give decidedly more."
"Find enclosed my check to the En dowment Fund. Are we `going over the top?' May God bless Miss Berry."
"It is a great joy to me to write once more telling you how proud I am to be an ex-Berry student, know ing as I do the pleasure, happiness and good I got at the Berry Schools.
"My whole life and soul goes up to our Master in everlasting prayer for Miss Berry and her school. I didn't stay at Berry very long but I know that when a boy or girl leaves old Berry it means another star added to Miss Berry's crown.
"I wish I could always have lived at Berry. It will always be a great and grand place with me. The main reason I love Berry is not because she is beneficial in worldly material, but her first and every motive is to lead boys and girls to Jesus. That is the best of all. We need better boys and girls and Berry is turning them out every year.

"I hope and believe that every stu dent at Berry has the same thought and purpose--that of going out into the world to make it a better world. Our land and country needs workers that will stand up for the right cause as Elijah did in days of old. We need more Elijahs nowadays for our country is full of Ahabs and Jezebels, and the Berry Schools are turning out Elijahs to warn them of their sinful way. Boys and girls, let's work for Jesus as we never worked before. Help and work, and pray, is my wish to every one of you."
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA PRAISES BERRY'S BAND
John Philip Sousa, the World's Greatest Bandmaster, visited a near by city with his band and came over to Mount Berry to see the work which Martha Berry is doing. Mr. Sousa heard the schools' band play and encouraged the boys by express ing his delight with the fine music they rendered. As he left the schools Mr. Sousa said, "This is a wonderful work and needs every encourage ment."

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An Industrial Building i4A Most Vital Need"

Berry has always stood for the threefold Education of spirit, mind and body. The world today, as never before, needs men and women who can feel and think and act. The study of God's word and the teaching of practical Christianity have al ways been given first place in the school; because the individual, the school, or the nation, that fails to live according to God's laws will fail. The academic standards have been raised continually, so that now the requirements for graduation com pare favorably with the best second ary institutions in the country.
After the education of the heart, the training of the hand has always been most emphasized at Berry. It is well known to our readers that all of the work of the School plant is done by the boys and girls under ex pert supervision. Berry believes that boys and girls should learn habits of industry and at the same time ac quire skill in some trade. This year the graduating class numbers eightysix men and women, all of whom have acquired not only an academic preparation which will admit them to the best colleges, but what is vastly more important, they have learned to like to work, and they have become expert workmen in all branches of agriculture, mechanics and domestic arts. Every boy and girl at Berry works two days and goes to classes four days each week. It has been found that this alternation of work and study enables the student to study better and consequently a course can be satisfactorily com pleted in a shorter length of time.
Since industrial training occupies such a supremely important place in

Berry's educational system, it should by all means, be represented by a building of size and equipment to take care of every necessity along this line. The building should be the largest and most completely equipped structure on the campus; so that the Alumni, the student body and the public, will realize that at Berry, work and the training of the hand occupy a place of supreme impor tance. Up to the present time our industrial operations have been car ried on in buildings of the rudest and most temporary nature. The equip ment has been meager and wholly in adequate to meet our needs. Both students and industrial foremen have borne with such discouraging condi tions uncomplainingly, and together they have accomplished remarkable results for the opportunity which was theirs. Their patience is deserving of a rich reward. A building en tirely suitable for our needs can be built for $150,000. Who will supply this, the most vital need that the schools have ever experienced?
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THE FIRST WORK SHOP AT BERRY The boy at the bench is the first graduate of the
schools. This shop sufficed in the early days. A large modern building is needed now.

THE FOUNDATION SCHOOL BOYS CARRY CHAIRS There are no seats in the Auditorium, and when chapel or church services are held the boys are obliged
to carry seats from the class room to the Auditorium. Desks and seats are needed

here to make the Auditorium complete.

OVERALL MEN VISIT BERRY
Because the Berry Schools have adopted the overalls as the school uni form it is very natural that a conven

some slight degree, what sacrifice you have made and what burdens you must have carried at times.
"I shall not soon forget the eager faces into which I looked when you introduced me to your pupils. It's

tion of overall manufacturers should not given to many men and women to

take a large portion of one of their accomplish such fine work in the

busy days to visit the schools and see world, and I hope that your reward

the one school in America where the in satisfaction and pleasure may be

overall is officially the uniform. somewhat proportionate to the fine

After seeing the boys and girls at results you have achieved.

work and at worship the head of this "Every member of our organiza

convention wrote Miss Berry:

tion who had the privilege of being

"My visit to your school was so at your school, has expressed the

full of interest and pleasure that now greatest pleasure. I find myself fre

I am back at my desk, I find my quently thinking of the charming pic

thoughts turning toward you fre ture the three spinning girls made as

quently. "I marvel at what you have they sang at their task.

accomplished. I can understand, in

"ABNER E. EARNED."

"I Want to Come to Your School"

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an very anions to be excepted as a pupil But here is my fears That I cant enter without paying the money to enter I cant get money to start on.

Dear Miss Berry: Your letter rec'd and and was very
glad to get it or rather the letter from the Principle of your school asking me what kind of work I do.

If I can enter and not have to pay I can do anything I ever could I

any Money on starting and work my way completely through I will be glad. I am anious to complete me Education and be prepared to teach.

have picked as much as 195 lb cotton in one day. I hoe work in the field do most all the washing in fact no one can hardley tell Im cripple. I can

Can I after leaving home and get do anything any other girl can do of

to school start in warking and not course some times when I work stand

have any Money to start with. I cant ing or it is real hot weather it scalds

Possibly get Money to pay to start on and gives me some trouble but this

but I can work and pay my way as I occurs very seldom and as I am crazy

go. My father has 5 children all at for a little more education I am will

home to be prouided for and is trying ing to work! work! So please write to get a farm paid for is the reason about, what kind of work you give

why he cant pay my way so please let me hear from you at once and tell me if I can enter school without Money.
Hoping that I can enter and that my application proves satisfactory.

girls and about when you have an idea you can take me as a Student to work. I have failed to rec. the cataloge the letter stated you were mail ing me. Thanking you for all the favors you may bestow upon me I am

I remain

Yours truly

E. P.

Ethel

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A MOTHER'S PLEA My Kind Friend

I Got My Boock you sent me and Oh how Glad I am Of it. I think it is Just Grand, that is what I have read of it. I cant read much I Did not Get But little Schooling Myself. But I am Thankful of what little I Did Get. I has Raised an Ofen. I have a Son to send to Send to your School Just as Soon as he Can Get Able, he is helping his PaPa with some work now to pay a Big Det. But I think he is gong off nex month to work to Get the Money to Start in on. he wants to work his way throug and Miss Berry Pleas write him and tell him how Much Money he will have to have to Go in On. You can write to me I want him to Get in Just as Soon as he can for he will be 17 the 10 of feb. My children are not going to School any where now. We have latley moved we Did live 5 Miles from A School. I Sent my Boy to Jesup School last year, and I have a Girl that wants to Go to your School she will Be 15 the last Day of April. And she wants to Go off and Get her a Job of work to make the Money to Go in on. She wants to work Her way through to can She Do that, and how much Money will She have to have. P. S. Write me and tell me. times is Got so reckless around the towns I dont Know where to send her off to work or not. I have not Got no Money coming in and My husband is over fifty and he is not able to work Much, but of corse he Does what he can. I also have a little Boy 10 Years old that took Grand Steps when he was 7 years old he Joined the Church and was baptise he was the first one of My children Joined Midway Church. If it is possible I

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GIRLS WEAVE DRESS FOR MISS BERRY
From the angora wool provided by the goats on the farm Berry girls spun thread which they dyed and wove into a beautiful garment for Miss Berry. At the Mid-biennial Council of The Federated Woman's Clubs Miss Berry wore this dress and was declared the best dressed woman at the convention.

want you to Pleas take him to for I

Know in My Mind he would be a

Grand Man if you could teach him.

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Mary's Dilemma

Mary keeps any fire going, and so time, only now a little worse. You

earns the small amount she needs to see when the boll weevil got us they

buy books, pencils and other neces told my father to plant watermelons,

saries of school life.

because they said watermelons would

Now Mary would be quite willing bring a good price. Well, he did plant

to look after my fire without being watermelons, and he raised the pret

paid for it, and I would be quite will tiest crop you ever saw. We all

ing to give her that little sum, but worked hard, but he had to hire some

a cardinal principle at Berry is "true help. He put all the land in water

help is that which helps to self-help." melons after he had set off enough to

Sometimes Mary lingers a little while for a chat,--not a long chat nor a frequent one, for she is a busy girl,

plant a good food crop, for my father always takes care to raise plenty of food for his family."

trying hard to make good grades in One look at the brothers and sis

her classes, and to get out of every ters quite corroborates this state

hour all it has to give.

ment. Tall, broad-shouldered young

"I do want to stay here until I can graduate," she said one day.

people they are, with color and vigor that stamp them as well-nourished.

"Why I thought you were fully de termined to stay, if it was possible. Why do you speak as if you were un certain ?"
"Well, you see it's this way, my father is getting old, and I just don't

"Well, we raised some fine melons, and there was a carload of them, the nicest you ever saw. My father shipped them, and that was the last of them."
"What do you mean?"

believe he can do without us. He "Why, father never got a cent for

wants us to be educated, but he has those melons. They told him the car

had such bad luck, and the only way had been side-tracked, and the mel

we can do is to work and pay our ons all spoiled, but that don't look

way. I've got two brothers and a reasonable to me. If there was such

sister here, and we all work and so a big demand for them, like they told

keep going. If one of us gets a little father there was, it looks to me like

ahead that one helps the one that is somebody got some pay for some of

behind, so we manage to keep paid them, anyway. But father couldn't

up. But all the children at home are get any satisfaction, for all he kept

younger than we are, and sometimes asking about them."

I get to wondering if I ought not to "I suppose he did not plant melons

be at home with things like they are; again."

and then again I think maybe if I "No; the next year the farmer

can stay on I'll be better able to get neighbors all agreed to plant differ

work and help out when it comes time ent crops, because they thought it

for the younger ones to come to might be that too many of them had

school."

planted melons. Father chose cab

"How are things at home now?" bages, and by the New Year he had

"They are just the same all the cabbages headed, ready for the mar-

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ket. You just ought to have seen them. They sure were pretty cab bages, with heads just as firm. But the men who had promised to look after selling the vegetables, said there wasn't any market for cabbages at that season, said they couldn't sell them anywhere they knew of. We didn't know what to do, and a wet spell came, and some of the cabbages rotted in the field. Then father saw an advertisement in a newspaper and he wrote to the man and sold him all the cabbages that were left. The long time he had to wait before he saw the advertisement spoiled a good many, and he just made eight dollars over expenses; trucking them cost a lot. This year, he's planting carrots and you can see he didn't have any money to spend, and we are just so glad we could get to Berry and work our way through.
"But sometimes I wonder if we ought to let father and mother do without us--and they are getting old ---only there's the other children to think of and the best way to help them, too."
It was in December that Mary thus weighed matters. After Christmas, one of the boys stayed at home.
"He said he just couldn't bear to think of father getting old at home and needing him. When the others get older and stronger he'll maybe comeback. Don't you just know how I want to finish here, so I can send the young ones here, and then when father and mother are old and feeble, we will all be able to help them better if we can just get educated, to do some useful work to make a living."
"What sort of work do you want to do?"
"What I want most is to take care of little children who haven't any-

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body to take care of them. It makes me sorry to think there are such. And I'd like to teach children that don't know anything about the Bible. But at first, I'll have to do just any thing I can get to do."
The task of turning away young people who are eager for work to earn their way is a heart-breaking one.
"Maybe I'll not be able to finish here," said Mary. "There are so many besides us wanting to work their way through--lots more than there's room for--and some of them haven't any home to go to. We have a home but I know my father can't raise money for us next year, so I'm just hoping there'll be room for me to work."
Is not this almost as poignant as Sidney Lanier's piercing cry for strength ?

Teaching Farming at Berry Schools

From a Southern Farm Journal

The Berry Schools are located at Mount Berry, Ga., near Rome, and were established 22 years ago by Miss Martha Berry, a Georgia wo man.
A few concrete reasons for Miss Berry's well known success in carry ing on her useful work may be briefly summed up here. Through the best years of her life she has given her entire time, without salary or other material remuneration, to the schools. (There are three of them, the Boys' School, the Girls' School, and the new grammar school for boys, known as the Foundation School.)
The schools are what they are to day because Miss Berry has firmly adhered to these three foundation principles.
1. A Christian school. 2. A working school. 3. A school of country life for country boys and girls of limited means, but good character. The Berry School lands are of the type commonly known as flatwoods. However, there is an abundance of farm, timber and pasture land in the hands of the schools, so the students find an exceptional opportunity to learn modern farming methods. There are 350 acres in cultivation at the main Boys' School. Seventy acres of this are producing alfalfa. Over 100 acres were in silage corn last year and the remainder was used for ear corn, sowed crops, truck and cotton. This school has a well-known record for profitable cotton produc tion under boll weevil conditions. Self-help is an important feature of the school work. Every fall when school opens in September, there are a large number of students who want

to enter the school, but find it hard to raise the necessary cash ($75) to pay the four months' tuition and board. A limited number of these boys are given full-time work as teamsters and farm laborers for four months, working 10 hours a day and paying for eight months board and tuition out of their earnings. These are known as work boys and become regular students after Christmas, or if they work full time during the spring term they become regular stu dents the following fall. Many of the school's most successful gradu ates are men who have made their start in this manner.
The regular students work 16 hours a week besides paying the $150 for eight months. Many of them work out this $150 in the school shops or on the farm or grounds during the four months summer vacation. Some of these boys will tell you that they learn as much in the four months' va cation as they do in the eight months of school. This in spite of the fact that the standard of the school is equal to the best high schools in the South.
The boys who work on the Berry School farms learn to use modern horse-drawn machinery for all oper ations where such machinery is best suited. Most of the turning and har rowing is done with tractors, of which the schools operate five on two farms. The man in charge of the farm is a University of Georgia man and is a first-class farm manager as well as a practical teacher of agricul ture. He requires the boys to feed and care for the mules and harness properly. They are shod at the school farm shop. Any rough treat-

THE NEW RECITATION HALL AT THE FOUNDATION SCHOOL

ment is not tolerated. The boys take pride in their well-kept mules.
In the fall, crops of rye, vetch and crimson clover are sowed and are turned under in the spring to in crease the corn yields. To see three big, husky country boys mounted on three tractors, turning under a head high crop of rye with crimson clover is a lesson in good farming which could not be taught so forcefully in any other way.
The student who had the responsi bility of plowing and dusting the 15acre cotton crop last summer was a boy who has not only done his work well, but is able to tell anyone, either face to face in his home community or before a large audience, just what he did and why. He had the cooper ation of the State Board of Ento mology and the intelligent direction

of the farm superintendent. Likewise, the head tractor boy,
the mule feeder, the students who work in the dairy and milk 70 cows, two of them Grand Champion Jer seys at the Southeastern Fair, and many other students who hold re sponsible places while they are still in school, are to be counted among the men who are now making South ern farming a better business than it has ever been before.
But the farm training of the Berry boys is not all digging post holes, turning land and hauling manure. Those who want an agricultural diploma get a well arranged, practi cal, four-year course in high school agriculture, which includes farm me chanics, dairy farming, stock judg ing, gardening, fruit culture, forestry and many other studies.

A New Home for the Faith Cottage Family

The children of Faith Cottage have lived in the old log building for years. The family has outgrown the old quarters and in addition the old logs were fast wearing out so that the up keep was increasing each month. The babies of the family have grown and naturally require more room.
Within a month the children will occupy the new home which is so beautifully located on a knoll over looking the Girls' School.
Martha and Virginia will take their pets with them and continue to care for the rabbits and chickens at their new quarters.
A garden will be laid out by the girls during the spring and the sum mer months will find them busy and very happy in their new home.

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now. She met him about half-way down the lane, and they stood and talked for quite a long time. It was almost dark now, and once he started off as if he were going to leave her, and then my heart sank within me, because I felt that she would be with out a home, and without a husband also. But at last he took his baby in one arm and the sack in the other, and Virgil and his wife passed down the lane and out of sight.

if it had not `a' bin for that thar Sunday-school talk you give at old Possum Trot School-House, I don't b'lieve me and my wife and Jane would ever have come together agin in this 'ere world."
Such was the beginning of the Boys' Industrial School, today there are three schools each doing a much needed piece of work. In the Foun dation School boys receive their pri mary and grammar school training. The Boys' School is the High School for boys at Berry. The Girls' School, very inadequate in facilities and ac commodations, takes care of a small portion of the girls who want to come to Berry. In all three schools there are over six hundred students. What a growth from five or six students only 22 years ago.

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The next Sunday, on the way to Possum Trot, someone called to me from a small cabin on the roadside; and who should come down to meet me but Virgil and his wife and the little baby. Virgil looked very happy with the baby in his arms, and said: "Wal, Miss Berry, weuns jes' fell out 'bout this youngun's name. My wife, she wanted to name it Mary Jane and I wanted to name it Sary Jane, and now we jes' calls it plain Jane, an'

THE COVER PAGE
The oxen pictured on the cover page are among the most cherished possessions of The Berry Schools. Daily they may be seen on the campus at one job or another. This pic turesque team is one of a remnant of thousands like it that are fast dis appearing from the farms and hills of the Southern Piedmont Section.
Several years ago a boy who was seeking the opportunity for an edu cation such as Berry offers drove his pair of oxen forty miles and asked Miss Berry to accept them in ex change for an education. The deal was made and today that boy is a member of the faculty of a great Southern University. While this young man serves his state and other boys the team is working out his tuition at Berry.

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Board of Trustees

The Berry Schools (Incorporated)

JOHN J. EAGAN, President

ROBERT F. MADDOX (President Atlanta National Bank and Ex-President of The American Bankers' Association), Treasurer

MARTHA BERRY, Founder and Director

Walter G. Ladd, New York Albert Shaw, New York Moses R. Wright, Rome Marion Jackson, Atlanta Thomas Berry, Rome J. R. MeWane, Birmingham Geo. L. Carlisle, Jr., New York Frank R. Chambers, New York

J. K. Orr, Atlanta Hamilton Stewart, Pittsburgh Standish Meacham, Cincinnati W. L. McKee, Boston Robt. C. Alston, Atlanta W. W. Orr, Atlanta H. A. Morgan, Knoxville M. G. Keown, Mount Berry

Forms of Bequest
1 pive and bequeath to The Berry Schools (Incorvorated) the sum
of_Dollars to be appropriated by the Trustees for the benefit of the Schools in such manner as they shall think will be most useful.
I qive and bequeath to The Berry Schools (Incorporated) the sum
of_ Dollars
to be safely invested by them and called the_ Scholarship.
1 qive and bequeath to The Berry Schools (Incorporated) the sum
of_Dollars
to be safely invested by them and called theEndowment Fund. The Interest of this fund shall be applied toward the general expenses.
$2500.00 Endows a day each year. $2500.00 Endows a Permanent Scholarship. $ 150.00 Provides a Scholarship for one year. Make checks payable to The Berry Schools and mail to The Berry Schools, Mount Berry, Ga.

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