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Show BEAUTY IMPORTED Main Street Is stupid. Main Street Is blind. Main Street drives out youth and Joy and vision. So says In substance sub-stance the creator of a now famous book. So say the girls who try to escape es-cape from humdrum lives by escaping to the city, each from her particular gray corner of her especially hateful Main Street sort of town. Down In Kentucky there are some folk who reverse this process. Humdrum Hum-drum gray lives there? Yes, indeed I Escape both wise and necessary If the Kentucky mountain folk are to grow Into Americans with tbelr fair chance at life, liberty and pursuit of happiness? happi-ness? Absolutely. Urge 'em all to move to Louisville, St Louis or Chicago? Chi-cago? By no means I Let's bring Instead, In-stead, the best that Any Place has discovered to these mountains and mountain people I So say the Interested Inter-ested folks down there In Kentucky. This story Is of a gracious woman at what she calls her "life's sunset period, with wonderful real lights out over the mountains to the east and the blue grass of the north. There are equally high colors in the lives of 225 mountain boys, who range from fifteen to thirty-five years of age, and from the A B C to the eighth grade certificate. It Is pioneer work. No woman has ever lived with these boys, and I live a very thrilling life at old well-known Berea college." Perhaps one must have known Laura Drake Gill of Boston and New York, magazine writer and one-time college dean, personally, to sense how much charm and richness of fine experience ex-perience she Is contributing to the "thrilling," pulsing life of Berea on the edge of the mountain country. What every woman may know, Miss Gill feels. Is that no Main Street Is too isolated for the Jole de vlvre, as the French gallantly phrase the Joy of living, to come In, that many of the good community organizations are eng'.T to be of service, and that all they lark is a hearty invitation from some one who wants more of the beauty of life Imported Into her town nnd who will get her fellow citizens to help distribute It. |