Show greek boys study our farm method S american school in athens reports more pupils athens the back to the inand movement in greece under way since 1022 1922 when refugees were received into the mother country after the ille exchange of population with will turkey tins has been so BO much accelerated by the depression and restrictive immigration throughout the world that the american farm school located on nn an arm of sa bonica bay racing facing mount lias fins this year un an overcapacity over capacity total of aco greek toys boys studying amerl anderl can dry farming and industrial methods this Is a jump from pupils last year and Is more than the total of alumni in the schools thirty two to years of life there have been several jewish students accepted from the flood of applicants who tire are preparing themselves for farming in the holy land more than gamb gam husla usla tish fish from froin louisiana which have an ap petite for mosquito eggs have been distributed this year in the worst malarial districts of greece by charles L L alouse the principal of th the school 11 1 and d eon of its el eighty glit nine year yea r old d f founder und dr jo john fin henry house some gamu gamb usla came from the institute at rome the ancestors of others crossed the atlantic earlier cradled in the arms of the messenger whenever there was a heavy sea in order that the water in their bowl might not be agitated more than their native swamps thirty acres of land added thirty acres of land at verrin the biblical berea mentioned in the wanderings of fau h have awve ave been ad add ed this year io to the schools acres tills this land was once oace the hot bot torn tom of lake amaturo Ania Ama which tins lius been dried for the greek govern merit ment by the foundation company now at work corb on land drainage in the al macedonian avedon fan swamplands all but one of the herd of jerseys which supplied the tibt bottles ot of the only certified milk in greece have had to be sold however during the year because of their infer tion with tuberculosis a disease which af filets almost 05 per cent of the greek cows about one quarter of the schools school s income Is received from the united states in the form of gifts besides suffering the expected depre clat elation Itin of the times the auro has decreased with the fall of the dol lar on european Euni Mur penn exchanges aacen fuated in greece by a rise on the part of the drach drachma nia the school has an ingenious budget under which its american income Is spent almost almos t wholly within the school the salaries of the faculty go as far ns as possible to buy things pro ducer by the school another way the school which Is modeled somewhat on berea col lege in kentucky find and the ll ampton institute in virginia ling has lately learned to save Is in the double use of water nater from the 02 foot swimming pool which the boys built will ft ath IK given III by mis john 11 1 finley the pool was built tit at tills this cost from rock hewn in the mountain foot foothill lillis behind the school and the water hater precious in a country of 19 imrch inch rainfall waters fields below the pool through half section pipes that are made at the school for 10 cents a yard on the way from one use to another the water pauses to sport at it a little fountain to which die boys have hao br ought brought ferns and other plants from such shrines of ancient greece as delphi Olyn ipos and athens pool water used twice an armenian sculptor ts Is making a bronze bust of doctor house who first came to the balkans Ball cans as a missionary tn in 1872 and who tinted with bulgarian bandits for the ransom of ellen at al stone when that tha I 1 american woman mission arys capture caused in an international sen ben bation doctor house who I 1 la is I 1 the h 0 idest living gr graduate adonte of W western administration reserve Ite serve university now leaves ad of the school wholly to his son charles L house a princeton engineer who ling has lived almost all his life ire in the Ital illings illin hars rs |