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Highlander Folk School — Part 13

69 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 68 pages OCR'd
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. i es . 6 .. j ‘ ‘ , -~ “pe vera t ys rT! Ly ' wr ry es ae ee nee ae we ; . - EF Bae ST ee a _ < oe » acs Seer ihe 7 i, nd . . - mw eye re hae we an ‘ ae -~ ws TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1940, 0 = PPR REBEL pam gg ~ twhat about the other 9,650. will coun but Fd ln a am, | nak him who mines 50 tw jTichest : ty tp fhe state, 1 ~~. _ of} o~ J Ui Kd Official JC] SD [end does the farming over the coun Oo my it is not the poorest. We y y ty? The Pulmer mine alone fur-(Save a number of people on re- nishes employment fee over 400/ lef, and 7 am not advocating taking Xing Letter Absurd 2222825 .iarete ron truck loads of coal to other counties |*™@ble suffering if it was not for . vot , © * — e ' ‘|iess fortunate than we. . the relief in this county, but every- grigures Misleading) wert om, [= Seat mera condition of the ene eorale every state in the union, ZI bave beard it binted that if the county, and especially along the/y ,0.' oendidate szain for an of- Fults Says ‘Rotten Propaganda Probably aa a nated | Beersheba Springs, but be fails to) 2c¢ in this county I would lose a ~ | . « a . Originated’ in Highlander Folk [rests te tact mat in driving of the stand T have taken in defend . ‘ be pases two Grundy County|/>s Grundy County. J am glad to School, Whence King Comes fetal bow tne sound tnritty enn | ITE in the land of the free and the . dition, the assets of one of which/ 2 94 breve. where every Presence of a number of Hi er Folk School people at |'s over balf a million dallers. Melee woting for whom ey pean the Southern Conference for Human Welfare here makes |e 7 County conn Poche hy /8Pd if T ever run tor office agai ond om G@rfesied 1 will gs dows m amoely the following from Lewis F. Fults, of Altarnant, county! and a 7 ‘. Camunty. Mr. Fults replies to an article by \aacy aes a eee Be pret | Dillard King, of Monteagle, in a recent issue of the News-Free |this county own and ‘ Ld i) - } Press In which King attacked a previous article by Mr. Fults, b investment Life, and i werde: berw be chm “ine defending Grundy County. [eso os a millian dofers. the bend Chet feeds ti and te aot 4 - Pieure = wold es th : Mr. King pictured Grundy as a land of destitution and! i conditions are Y sesolation and Mr. Fults resents vigorously the criticism of|would Uke for us RE Sic home section, saying that “probably all this rotten propa-|would lke for cand originsted” in Highlander Folk School, whence comes County paid zp a ify, King haven't had a single desth from in cash for number plates for te The Chattanooge Mees-Free Press: |typhoid, scarlet fever, or smalipox|cars and trucks farms vt octsnuea bee hee called tojin this county for the pest four ee one rock piles snd biutis an articie wizch appeared in # re-lyears, while the rate for the slate|T Caer it ne has ever been in Lat have “Fe News-Pree Press,|was 38 for typhoid and 68 for Pelnam Valley, Paynes, Burrows, 7 eee , during 1938. ts, Hubbards and Northcuts written by Dilarc Bing, of Mont-jecarlet fever, Buring Oo the health muy, 2 on Collins River when Me carte, in arceer to an article written wade of the 1,400 grar ar schoo! crope are = , an gp yet. foe sacks ago regard-|chiidren who bave pessed eVverY cies.” : Lg ea alia oO. Geundy County. health test of our efficient health 1 wender if he knows that the ve bh. cy not know Mr. /depertnent and pronounced In per-| s.7, gf Eimest Stampfil, of fe wee ee ee is affiliated fC! bealth. and given blue ribbons.) gett, was pronounced the p Rang, T wach 1 sey oie schoo!| ABSURDITIES EXPOSED | track farm in the siate of Tem meet Mevtongie, which hax recent-| Mr. King asked the very absurd oe oe ender it he _ bres Wcte Litscgetion for its question of Med gil toe coal es hows that 34,000 pounds ef cab- opaganda criginated ined in| for $560 and that $125 werth of | Pts bad en to be sold. If all the coal in strawberries were sold from ene a ft fs bad enough when outsiders Grundy County in one year wes : ” run od last year. wet kee tou Bot when {t somes equally distributed, every family in| sere of new gro’ ‘ 7 to arive to one of vur cwa clurens ing b's) the county would get approximately I would like for Mr. King ve Pocdvertiee aur own erunty te thel ven carloads (over 200 tons) of|out the Palmer Road a8 ors ac a cesspool of disease,|ene) | will ask Mr. King what onlend see the new bree ws pirtady moe read ves si, it ds beyond earth any family would want with jalong the highway,/ : a ot ‘+ +e rteestand. I am|geven carloads of coal? to wisit the farm eka wed a’ } oy ached me to look over! Mr. King telis us sawmills of the/Mr. Stoker and » Pave lige + sarge oi Grundy|county ‘only furnish @ Uving for}they look like rc ae AIP Loic Cue = @amn 90 doing |gboyt 50 people and wants to know! Now I am not : Hee H.R in Gry __ _. a Wie und ys » Sig " for Gn, 7 . ft ofr: ga ag * 2 fo UFurcy Are “istiate. The 233 ' war fe age _ tee for wip taf fur the “ ele, Ak x te. perue” 7 r isa) why ' $ip for bighast Ceaib He Fegan yoo, fer thie | PON Re, oe ay UF gr) fete ee go Lae yn? * fee SERC Fe; Gracy When od Bom a 3 OY three mee Ate i the a Me rite, Bi RET ames, OE tet UF tha heat. Beye ee ee a t we
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