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FIRESIDE INDUSTRIES 1
For story, see page 3  
Courier-.Tournal—Pli0to by H. Hzirold Davis  
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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN af zhe FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE ~
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Lexington, Ky. I
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year
Edit0r's Office: Wendover, Kentucky  
VOLUME 30 WINTER, 1955 NUMBER 3  
"Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Omce at Lexington, Ky., N
under Act of March 3, 1879."
Copyright, 1955, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. `

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  CONTENTS
  ''‘V     Aivricuz Auruon mor;
  ._ A January Baby Anna May January 7
  ;__ A Prayer W. .4. Hifner, Jr. 10
  v_     A Sequence on Slander 6
  It   American Nursing (Book Review) E. Jane Furnas 27
n.,_.._ ;_._g > 
    _ Answer to the Atom Nelson Trusler Johnson 2
    Bareback Monica Hayes 21
 ’’      i    ’ Berea College 3
  I .-   Beyond the Mountains 41 A
2   /2 Field Notes 48
it l i Old Courier News 11
  , i Old Staff News 30
 VL Possum Bend Nursing Center Inside back cover
’ '’·} i The Little Trunk (Illustrated) Helen Treanor 24
` · L What a Little Boy Said to Himself
  in Church (Verse) Contributed
    · Drawing by Caroline Williams 28
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I BRIEF mars
S Backyard Garden Titusville Star-Advocate 51
‘ Cartoon American Poultry Journal 40
I Children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A.
_ Lawrence (Photograph) 40
{ "Go to Bed, Go to Bed" The Countryman 25
,  Just Jokes 23
`· Just Jokes 26
Old Weather Lore (Verse) 20
° ( Our Mail Bag 39
i Tom and Biddy (Photograph) 9
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‘ 4 Velocity Building New India 46
  White Elephant 47
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ANSWER TO THE ATOM  
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NELSON TRUSIEER JOHNSON .
For thine is the kingdom, l
and the power, and the glory, ..... V
These words seem +0 me +0 be +i++ing words +0 live by in il
+his age 0+ +he a+om. To me, +hey es+ablish beyond ques+ion our   T
rela+ionship +0 God.  
lvly lawyer +a+her used +0 say +0 me +ha+ God placed us yi
here as +rus+ees 0+ His kingdom. I+ we accep+ +ha+ c0ncep+. 1
+here is no need +0 live in +err0r 0+ +he energy which we, in +he j l
per+ormance 0+ our +rus+. have released +rom +he a+om. ¥ y
Man has always had wi+hin him +he power +0 des+roy him- Q
sel+. lns+ead he c0n+inues +0 live in G0d`s kingdom. by His il
power and +0 His glory.  
Fear doub+less +irs+ seized our primi+ive ances+0rs when li
one 0+ +hem +0r +he +irs+ +ime produced +ire, handling +amiliarly  
and harmlessly +he +erribly des+ruc+ive +0rce which had always l
held man in deadly +ear and awe. Man, mas+er 0+ +ire, buil+ lz
+hereon +he grea+ civiliza+ion which we see all ab0u+ us. I
The energies released by a+omic +issi0n and +usi0n are bu+ y
+he la+es+ 0+ +he many +alen+s wi+h which God has +rus+ed us. `
Despi+e obvious dangers. we dare no+ wrap +hese +alen+s in a A
napkin and bury +hem in +he ground in +ear 0+ ourselves or God. i
l+ God has +rus+ed us, can we no+ +hen +rus+ ourselves? Q
Wi+h +he power +ha+ God has given us we are even now ri
+aking +he +irs+ s+eps +0rward in +he building 0+ a new world +0 3
replace +he old. God has opened +0r us and +0r our children  
+he brigh+ prospec+ 0+ a new and in+ini+ely +reer world. New  
horizons beckon us on all sides. i
Le+ us go +orward +hen. in Gods kingdom, +rus+ing Him as ’
He has +rus+ed us. una+raid. l
The late Nelson Trasler Johnson was a former Ambassador _y
to China. This article is among the last he wrote before he died. . li
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5 The Quarterly Bulletin asked Berea College to do us the
  honor of contributing an article to our pages in connection with
, Berea’s Centennial year. We are happy indeed to publish their
, article, which follows.
I BEREA COLLEGE
  £ the Good Neighbor
  l Celebrates Its Centennial
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Y l A great deal has been said about the Good Neighbor Policy.
j . Here in this mountain area the Good Neighbor Policy has
{ been accepted for a great many years. The Frontier Nursing
  i Service and Berea College have shown how they feel about it
5 as they have concerned themselves with the welfare of the
§ i mountain people and as they have cooperated with one another
  in this work.
{ * In 1947, Berea College in conferring the Honorary Degree
s of Doctor of Laws on Mary Breckinridge made this statement:
Q "Realist, who saw and recognized the needs of women and chil-
i dren in remote valleys of the South.
Humanitarian, who has given fully of her life that these needs
. may be met that life might be safer and better.
Educator, who planned and established a program for the prepa-
* ration of midwives for rural practice."
A Now in 1955, the Frontier Nursing Service wishes to recog-
C nize the Centennial of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, to tell
i, the readers of The Bulletin something of the history and pur-
F ? poses of the institution: that during the past one hundred years
, it has been a good neighbor to the surrounding community, to
  the young men and women in 230 mountain counties in Southern
  Appalachia and that now increasingly it is becoming also a good
i neighbor to the peoples of many foreign countries.
’ Tracing its origin to a district school established in 1855 as
K an elementary one-room school, ungraded, unplastered, covered
with rived boards—a private institution, non-denominational,
%> with no state or federal support, the College has grown until
i today it has 100 modern buildings, a campus of 144 acres, a
{ forest of 5700 acres, 875 acres of land used for instruction in
V farming, dairying and animal husbandry.
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Why did a New England woman, in 1902, wire her promise A
for a new chapel when news reached her that the old one had S
burned? Why does the daughter of a Kentucky woman give a  
classroom building as a memorial to her mother? Why does a  
Chicago businessman give a gymnasium? Or a doctor give an  
Agricultural Hall as a memorial to his son? The list might be  
extended to include all of their buildings. Berea College, charg-  
ing no tuition, could not have provided these buildings for its iii
students without the help of friends. Why have thousands of  
friends given the College large gifts and countless small gifts  ·’
to support the educational work? President Hutchins says,  
"Berea College is a strong and beautiful college because many  
people have believed in its principles and have worked and sacri- K l
fied for these principles." E 3
What are these principles which have been the blue prints '
for Berea’s service in the community, in the mountain territory LL
and now in scattered parts of the world ? .
Berea College has a religious commitment which is clearly .
stated in the first words of its charter: "To promote the Cause *
of Christ." Founded by earnest, sincere Christian men and T
women, the College strives for Christian living and understand- 4
ing and conviction for its students. °
In the Community the College expresses its Christian prin- <
ciples through its concern for the health of the people. Since I
1898 the hospital, although owned and operated by the College,
has been in reality a community hospital. In addition to the .
College and the town of Berea, it serves an area of approxi-
mately 40,000 people. Its School of Nursing prepares young `
women for a life of service.
From the earliest days it has been the purpose of Berea
College to maintain an educational opportunity of genuine quality
for able young men and women from the Southern Appalachian
mountain region. · - Q
No student pays tuition at Berea College. In accepting stu- {E
dents from the mountain area consideration is given to ability A
and also to their financial need. Even a modest tuition fee would Q1
prevent a substantial number of students from enrolling. The I  i
operating expenses are kept at an absolute minimum. The fact
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{ keep the cost moderate. The Labor Program enables students
  to earn toward their board, room and incidental expenses.
  Not only is Berea’s Labor Program good economically, but
  also fruitful educational results come from the relationship of
  labor and study. It is a sound educational idea to combine a
  study program of high quality and a work program, recognizing
  p the contribution which work may make economically, education-
, {1 ally, and spiritually.
ii "It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only
[ IQ by thought that labour can ybe made happy, and the two cannot
{ 4 be separated with 1mpun1ty.’ —Rusk1n
§§ When the United States Senate and the House of Repre-
  sentatives of the 83rd Congress commemorated Berea College,
, _ in Berea, Kentucky, upon its 100th anniversary, these two reso-
  i lutions were included:
i "Whereas the Berea idea of combining a study program of high
ll quality and a work program of practical value has attracted
{ hundreds of foreign educators engaged in replanning their whole
' ’ educational systems in the postwar period; and
"Whereas Berea College has become the specific model for many
‘, educational institutions in these foreign countries where a pat-
‘ tern is needed conforming to their current basic resources and
' _ state appropriations."
l One of Berea’s most effective contacts with a foreign coun-
* try came through the appointment of Dr. Luther Ambrose,
—· Chairman of Department of Education, for two years’ service
. in Paraguay. Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose participated in the creation
‘ of a teacher training curriculum and an institute under the aus-
- pices of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs.
On June 20, 1952, the Congress in the Philippines passed
` a bill creating the Mindanao Institute of Technology "patterned
S after the Berea College in Kentucky, United States of America."
After a tour of America, Mr. Koshin Shikiya, President of the
University of Ryukyus, selected Berea College as an appropriate
model for them. Dean Louis Smith has returned recently from
. a lecture tour of India at the invitation of the U. S. Dept. of
fg State. And so Berea’s service extends far beyond the dreams of
’* its founders.
Q1 One of the important undertakings planned for the cele-
’ · bration of the Centennial will be a new symphonic drama by the
A famed Pulitzer prize winning author, Paul Green.
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life, culture and importance of the people of the Southern Appa- L
lachian Mountains. ;_ 
For years ahead, Berea College will continue to be the good Z,
neighbor and its campus will continue to extend to the top of {
the "farthest hollow" and its influence to the far corners of the ji
world. _}
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A SEQUENCE ON SLANDER
Detraction is one of the principal forms of self-promotion, Q
and those that cannot reach the citadel themselves, must clam- ;
ber up over the bodies of their companions who have it. i
—Ge0rge Wyndham Recognita, by Charles T. Gatty  
Whenever any criticism is tinged with jealousy or malignity 3
be sure that there is some good in the subject against which the
criticism is directed. It may even be that the malice shown is S
the measure of the goodness of that which is maligned.
—Light, London, March 23, 1929
A gentleman . . . has no ears for slander. _
—Cardinal Newman `
If ought good thou canst not say  
Of thy brother, foe or friend, =4
Take thou, then, the silent way,  
Lest in word thou shouldst offend.  
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._ A JANUARY BABY
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.1 ANNA MAY JANUARY, R.N., c.M.
, A dark winter’s night two years ago, with clouds hovering
  low over old Mother Earth, lightning flashing through the hills
  silhouetting the barren trees against the sky———with the wind
  _; howling and moaning and bringing down limbs from trees—what
[ j a night, I thought, to have to make a race with Mr. Stork! No,
§l not likely, for I had paid a call on Judy that very day—no signs
of Mr. Stork taking a trip on such a night.
J After listening with one ear cocked until 11 :45 p.m., I de-
3 cided that Divine Providence just wouldn’t send me out on a
` four-mile trip—up the river from Wendover and then up the
‘ creek—on such a night. So out my light went, and I settled down
to sleep.
, But just 15 minutes later, I was jostled into the realization
Y that Mr. Stork and Divine Providence had other plans for me,
_Q storm or no storm, for John had gotten through. "I sure hate to
T git you-uns out on sich a night, but I reckon Judy’s time has
come. She sure is punishing. You-uns better hurry on."
; I got into my clothes as quickly as possible, picked up my
_ saddle bags and was ready to leave, when I realized that another
L form had appeared, barefooted, in the person of Betty Ann Brad-
bury. She was a young Hyden Hospital nurse then, week-ending
at Wendover, and she wanted to come along. I guessed from the
‘ look on her face that she thought that I thought she was ready
for the "bug-house" to choose to go out on such a night. "Well,
I won’t go—I’m not ready." "No, you want to come—get dressed
_ and follow after me with J ohn."
2 Cindy, my mare, and I started off, falling into holes, skirt-
ing limbs and slides. Well, I thought to myself, if only a good
‘ big limb will fall across Mr. Stork’s path, that will help a bit.
*4 After what seemed like an eternity of thrashing about in the
ol rain, thunder, lightning, and the holes in the road, I finally
‘ , neared the house——to find that the barn had blown down and
S bits of it were entering the gate ahead of me. I managed to
  scramble through and hitched Cindy to a piece of fence still
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that I had won the race. But Judy, sitting up in the bed rocking
back and forth, greeted me with three words, "Cow and mule," 1
which I got between her pains.  
"Now, Judy, when your pain is gone tell me about the cow N
and the mule." At the time I was not interested in quadrupeds, .
for it was evident that Judy had not much longer to go. Well, -.
the mule and the cow were covered up with the fallen down barn! t
But their extraction from the débris, I had to leave for John. Q
Fortunately it turned out that neither one was hurt much. E {
Reassuring Judy, I assembled my supplies. After Betty Ann  
arrived with John, I had her help and got myself ready. Very  ~
soon a ten-pound bouncing baby boy arrived, greeting the wild .
night with a lusty yell.  ,
Alas, my troubles were not over, for Judy had a partially f 
separated placenta with hemorrhage. I immediately started poor Q 
John back down the creek to Wendover, to get word to Hyden j
Hospital for Dr. den Dulk, our Medical Director then. With no  I
telephone between Wendover and Hyden at night, and with the  `
Middle Fork River in tide, I knew that it would be three or four Z
hours before word could be gotten to Dr. den Dulk and he could  
get to me. This meant that Judy’s life depended on me. I went  
ahead and did a manual removal of the placenta and then, with  -i
Betty Ann’s help, treated Judy for shock. I shall never forget I
poor Betty Ann trying and trying to get the foot of the double
bed up on a chair. j
After a time Judy began coming out of shock. By now I was .
beginning to get a little myself, for my knees were beginning to  ‘
shake, and I felt a little like I was on paper legs. I thought of  °
a broadcast by Edward R. Murrow from London during the war ·
in which he quoted a sign on a bombed-out church which read, -2 
"If your knees knock, kneel on them." But there was no time Q
to kneel. I
Judy continued to improve. John returned with a message _
from Brownie saying she would go to Hyden after the doctor .
and send him on up the creek. With this assurance, I went ahead — i
and took care of the baby. As I put him in his mother’s arms, wi
she smiled at me. "Hit’s a caution how much he looks like J ohn," J
she said. l
At 7 a.m., with mother in good condition, mule and cow  f
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_ still alive, the barn lying lazily down as if for a nap, we saddled
, our horses and made our way back to Wendover. Half way down
  the creek we met Dr. den Dulk riding up. He took my report,
 Ii and decided he could safely go back with us. How thankful I
{ was that I had gotten to Judy in time, thankful for a mother’s
 i life saved! I think perhaps the motto of the Frontier Nursing
ja Service fitted this situation very well: "He shall gather the lambs
{ in His arms and carry them in His bosom and gently lead those
1 that are with young."
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