THROUGH COLLEGE ON HALF-SOLES
Through College On Half-soles LATIN and Greek and higher algebra are all very well as prerequisites for a college education, but in the southern Appalachians there's a requirement even more...
...What might have developed into a serious epidemic was brought to a sudden stop...
...goin' down a man wants hobnails in the seat of his pants...
...Supplementing her college course by a short, intensive course of training in the laboratory of a city health department, the home economics teacher will become also the school bacteriologist...
...Wisconsin's record was perhaps the highest in its history...
...The expected happened when two children from a home in which there was an unrecognized case of diphtheria continued to attend one of the schools several days after the child became afflicted...
...The problem of the officials at Berea is to turn the heroic stuff of the mountains into right channels of action...
...Yorks of the mountains Berea is stretching every nerve and sinew...
...It was evident that with its constant contact with Milwaukee, Shore-wood could not hope to escape unscathed...
...School Fights Disease DURING the fall and early winter of last year, the diphtheria morbidity throughout the United States was abnormally high...
...Shorewood proposes henceforth to have both the machinery and the needed men and women...
...It was then that it came to us strikingly, that while municipalities have the machinery and the men, standing in utter idleness, ready to respond instantly to an emergency against fire, they are not ready to meet adequately an emergency for the protection of life against the diphtheria invader...
...Through College On Half-soles LATIN and Greek and higher algebra are all very well as prerequisites for a college education, but in the southern Appalachians there's a requirement even more fundamental—new half-soles on your boots...
...The Appalachians are short on railroads, paved highways and cement sidewalks, so its people must take their choice of traveling afoot or on horseback—and when you haven't a horse you choose to go afoot...
...To determine how much damage had been done, and to check its progress, cultures were taken from the noses and the throats of all the children in that school...
...The contagion was introduced into but one additional family...
...The school was closed...
...Though the six children of that family contracted diphtheria, one following the other, happily all recovered...
...Fourteen school children, it is reported, were lost—actually lost—and a number of others were afflicted...
...The Board of Health is of the opinion that where there is such urgent need for its application, it should be more than a mere ornament...
...In the event of a situation calling for the examination of large numbers of cultures, the home economies work is to be dropped, and the time of the teacher is to be devoted exclusively to the laboratory work...
...To go to Berea, the great college in the highlands of Kentucky, the mountain boys tramp over creek beds and canyons, through gulches and gullies, and to a lot of them who walk for miles new soles are the first necessity...
...As an initial experiment, the teacher of home economics will be called upon to apply, so far as possible, her training in bacteriology...
...Fourteen carriers were isolated...
...Joe," from Adair county, didn't have a horse, so he tramped 80 miles to Berea for his education, and then summed up his opinion of mountain hiking facilities in the trenchant phrases: "Goin' up you can mighty nigh stand up straight and bite the ground...
...Going to Berea" is the great ambition of the thousands of mountain boys and girls, and men and women, too, who live in that vast Appalachian upland that covers so large a portion of eight great southern states...
...Examination of cultures proved both to be carriers...
...The pupils were instructed to return in two days on the assumption that by that time all the carriers would be under quarantine...
...The apparatus will be installed...
...From a population of 3,000,000 she can provide only for 2,500—give them not college training alone, but knowledge of how to live better in the mountains, how to grow more crops, how to build better communities, "how to make tho mountains a better place to be born in...
...By way of contrast we might mention the experience of a sister suburb where, at about the same time or shortly afterwards, a similar situation developed...
...and shortage of money does not stifle their ambition, for Berea charges no tuition fees and makes it easier for those who have little by giving them half-time work which very nearly provides for their expense...
...To reach the potential Sergt...
...In the usual "happy-go-lucky" fashion, matters were permitted to take their natural course, hoping that nothing would happen...
...Cultures from the promiscuous sore throats day by day, will be given to her for examination...
Vol. 13 • November 1921 • No. 11
