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TENNESSEE Support: The School is run on a cooperative basis. Students and staff share in the household work; hence, every penny of the yearly contributions is devoted to the actual maintenance of the Schoo! and its year-round program of residence terma, and com- munity and extension work. Contributors are unions, religious groups, student bodies, educational foundations, and over nine hundred liberal men and women throughout the country. Scholarships are maintained by several international unions; and by individual contributors, including Mre. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The school work would be impossible without the moral and financial eupport of progressive citizens, They believe with the School that af democracy is to survive the onslaughts of the anti-democratic forces spreading in the world today, the great majority of our people must learn how to exercise their rights most capably and wisely through the democratic process, Endorsements. The School is proud of the roster of illustrious leaders, both National and Southern, who endorse its work. Amongst the prominent representatives of organized labor — - Dr. George 5. Counts; President, American Federation of Teachers, A.F. of L.: “T have every confidence in the Highlander Folk School as an institution thoroughly devoted to the interesta of working people and the cause of American democracy.” John L. Lewis: President, United Mine Workers of America, C.LO.: “I think that the School is performing a noteworthy task in the field of libera) and useful education, and that real recogni- tion is due for the generous and effective eupport which it gives to the siruggle of labor in the South.” , Amongst the well-known educators — Dr, John Dewey: “When the Highlander Folk School was founded, I wrote that | regarded it as one of the most important social-educational projects in America. The achievements of the Schoo] in the past eight years confirm my original judgment.” Dr. William S. Knickerbocker, Professor at the University of the South, and editor of the SEWANEE REVIEW: “... the Highlander Folk School ie rendering an important and indispensable service in ite nursery school, ite relief assist- ance, its intelligent acrutiny of political and social conditions, and in most of its proposals for the elimination of removable abuecs and the introduction of more tolerable conditions of living.”