rials of living--could he do for his
people?" He was trying to answer them. Subconsciously, a great and a
genuine appreciation of all that had been done for him was pushing him
onward.

Unaided, he had solved the first. It was education. How keenly, within
the few months that had passed, had he realized his own need!

But at that time he did not appreciate how rapidly he was building for
himself a bridge over that shortcoming.

The second problem he found more difficult. He recognized he could do a
greater good and his efforts would be more lasting and far-reaching if
he proved to be an aid to the younger generation. In his effort to reach
a practical plan he went as far as he could, with his limited knowledge
of organization, before he sought counsel.

Then he asked that no other gifts be made to him, but instead the money
be contributed to a fund to build simple, primary schools throughout the
mountain districts where there were no state or county tax
appropriations available for the purpose. Of the fund, not a dollar was
to be for his personal use, nor for any effort he might put forth in its
behalf.

So again the form of Sergeant York rose out of the valley, above the
mountains, and the sunlight of the nation's approval fell upon it. Men
of prominence volunteered to aid him in his efforts for the children of
the mountains, and the result was the incorporation of the York
Foundation, a non-profit-sharing organization, that is to build
schoolhouses and operate schools. Among the trustees are an ex-Secretary
of the United States Treasury, bishops of the churches, a state
governor, a congressman, bankers, lawyers and business men.

[Footnote: The Trustees of the York Foundation are: Bishop James
Atkins, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; W. B. Beauchamp,
Director-General of the Methodist Centenary, Nashville, Tenn.; George
E. Bennie, President, Alexander Bennie Co., Nashville, Tenn; C. H.
Brandon, President, Brandon Printing Co., Nashville, Tenn.; P. H.
Cain, Cain-Sloan Co., Nashville, Tenn.; Joel O. Cheek, President,
Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., Nashville, Tenn.; James N. Cox, Gainesboro
Telephone Co., Cookeville, Tenn.; Dr. G. W. Dyer, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn.; Judge F. T. Fancher, Sparta, Tenn.;
Edgar M. Foster, Business Manager, "Nashville Banner," Nashville,
Tenn.; Judge Joseph Gardenhire, Carthage, Tenn.; T. Graham Hall,
Business Man, Nashville, Tenn.; Hon. Cordell Hull, Cha