Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-26

The intelligent committee OF prominent
Georgians appointed by the Legislature
during its session last winter, TO inyestl-
gate. even to the personal inspection OF
Northern schools, and report upon the
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing technology
cal schools in Georgia. having per-
formed that duty and presented very
able and conclusive argument in their
favor. il now remains for the Legislature
to act upon the report, provide means
and inaugurate the long needed training
system of her growing mechanical arts.
The State has commenced none too soon
in work of such vast Importance. In
deed. as one of the foremost States Of the
Union in matters of education and gen.
eral enterprise, Georgia is already be-
hind her record in the sluggish move
ment of public sentiment toward a proper
recognition Of the only practicable
method of providing home talent and
skill for the great industries she seeks to
develop within her borders. No indiyid-
ual interest or prejudice, no con-
tention for location. or other
frivolous pretext should be permitted to
stand in the way Of the immediate organi-
cation of the school. The recommends
tions of the committee are wise and pO-
little, and we hope the Legislature will
press the matter through to a practical
test during the present session. 1t could
do no greater work for the future of the
State.
In view of the present status of the
question in the state, the following from
the New York EreaiRg Post will be read
with interest:
The Legislature of Georgia. which is
now holding its adjourned session. is on
the eveOf considering the report of a COM
mittee appointed at the regular session
last winter to inquire into the advisable
" OF establishing State school of tech
nologv. The members of the committee
are. as we judge from their published IN
terviews. clear headed men, alive to the
needs Of their State, and willing to learn
from any competent instructor. They
have. during vacation, examined the
schools of Worcester, HObOken, Boston
and New York. and the result is an
earnest advocacy by them of the estab-
lishment of similar schools in Georgia.
The press of the State. it is gratifying to Oh
serve. has warmly cO-Operated with them,
though there is some difference among the
leading Journals about the grade of school
which should be at first supported
whether. for instance, one conducted upon
the general plan of those visited by the
committee or one resembling the recently
established school in Chicago. But they
all heartily favor "the new departure"
in education. 1t was to he expected that
Georgia would be among the first
of the Southern states to take into
consideration this question of technical
training, and il is safe TO predict
that prompt favorable action will follow
if not on the part of the State, at any rate,
of its enterpriSing citizens. Great pro-
gresS has been made there in the last few
years in agriculture. The intelligent
system adopted by Furman has proved Of
such palpable benefit that there has been
an utter abandonment theoretically. at
least of the old system by all who
improbable that the skilled labor. which
it seems now the intention of Georgia to
possess. will secure even greater bless
ings to the State than the adoption of new
systems of farming. The same may be
said of the South generally, Already
the Young men from that section
are to be found in the machine shops and
archaeological schools of the North. Some
Of them are working AT Altoona and
elsewhere, having completed their aca-
demic studies at Southern uniyersi-
ties, and having turned their
backs upon positions once
eagerly grasped by the class TO which
they belong. These are awaiting the
change which is TO come over the South.
and which the report of the Georgia Com
mittee and the agitation which ii Will
cause. whether or not it secures a legisla-
tive appropriation, will hasten