. Berea Quarterly. is the absence of anyforeign element in the population. The 35 mountaincounties of Kentucky, for example, contain 478,205 people,with only 2,120 who are of foreign birth, and these massedin a few counties where mines or lumber interests havebeen recently established. There are 15 counties each con-taining less than ten persons of foreign birth. The mass-ing of so great a population of purely American birthand breeding is very significant. And these people whoowned land but did not own slaves (never to be confusedwith the poor whites) constitute the true yeomanry ofthe South,
. Berea Quarterly. is the absence of anyforeign element in the population. The 35 mountaincounties of Kentucky, for example, contain 478,205 people,with only 2,120 who are of foreign birth, and these massedin a few counties where mines or lumber interests havebeen recently established. There are 15 counties each con-taining less than ten persons of foreign birth. The mass-ing of so great a population of purely American birthand breeding is very significant. And these people whoowned land but did not own slaves (never to be confusedwith the poor whites) constitute the true yeomanry ofthe South, its best nucleus for a true middle class. Largefamilies are the rule, and the standard of physical develop-ment is high. With this large birthrate the mountainregion is approaching the limit of population and musteither improve the means of subsistence, or movements have begun. In time the mineral wealthwill bring railroads to some extent, and if proper edu- PRESIDENT FROSTAN APPRECIATION: AN Supplement to THE BEREA QUARTERLY, January, 1910. PRESIDENT FROSTAN APPRECIATION: AN APPEAL. So far as practical results are concerned, Columbus wasthe real discoverer of the new world. A little band ofworkers at Berea, among whom are the fadeless namesof Father Fee, of Principal Rogers, and of President Frost,are the true discoverers of Appalachian America, of its ster-ling mountain people, and of the wisest methods of puttingthem in touch with the best forces in American civiliza-tion. In the very prime of physical strength and mentalvigor, at the age of thirty-eight, William Goodell Frosttook the headship of Berea College. For seventeen years hehas devoted his vast energy to the solution of a stupendousproblem, the betterment, physical, intellectual, and spiritual,of three million mountaineers. His success stands almostunparalleled in educational history. But this result hasbeen achieved only by an outlay of effort little short ofsuicidal. His career has been not
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