. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . , with mud-chinked walls. The oldsquirrel rifle hangs above the smoke-smirched spinning wheel, lard kettle, candle mold—eventhe hand grist mill—still■have their places with hishousehold gods. Thesemountaineers, Americansof a hundred years ago,locked in behind the rock-ribbed doors of their moun-tain fastnesses, are todaya treasure house of patriot-ism and valor, a strain oftrue pioneer blood; not theleast of our national re-sources. When we speak of theSouthern mountaineer wedesignate three million peo-ple living in five c
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . , with mud-chinked walls. The oldsquirrel rifle hangs above the smoke-smirched spinning wheel, lard kettle, candle mold—eventhe hand grist mill—still■have their places with hishousehold gods. Thesemountaineers, Americansof a hundred years ago,locked in behind the rock-ribbed doors of their moun-tain fastnesses, are todaya treasure house of patriot-ism and valor, a strain oftrue pioneer blood; not theleast of our national re-sources. When we speak of theSouthern mountaineer wedesignate three million peo-ple living in five civilization willcome—is coming—to them. The world needs them even as they need the chance foradvancement of which they have so long been world will reach out to them and gather them in andthey will bring courage and unthinking honesty into theworld. But in many ways they are as children untaughtand as they are amenable to the best influences so arethey open to the vices of a more enlightened and lessSpartan ROCK CUT. NEAR SHELBY GAP
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