The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-15

the masses, SO that they can the better
gain this living. IL this is the rule,
the exception will take care OF itself.
With trained, educated, thinking,
reading workmen, we will have a
rich, prosperous country, dotted all
over with lovely, happy homes, and
the temptations to idleness and crime
will diminish.
Prof. Holladay then spoke of the
purposes of industrial education, and
the change that was taking place in
the world and the necessity for a
change in industrial education.
But you may ask, does this indus
trial training hinder one in the regular
academic studies? We answer that
it does not. Experience teaches us
that our boys advance better in all
their studies by having their exercises
in the industrial part of our course.
The manual training gives tone to
their studies, gives most pleasing
variety, and, above all, gives applica-
ton of principles learned in their
books, which quickens thought, de.
velops study, and greatly increases
the desire for knowledge. Each de-
partment is a most helpful aid to the
other. 1t is a sin and shame to al
low the youth of our country to grow
up without a proper development of
all these powers, and without offering
an education that fits them for the
highest order of manhood,
He continued to discuss the advan-
tages ofindustrial education, and con-
cluded as follows:
There is one ground we must occu-
py in common with all the schools of
the State, from the smallest cross
roads school to our noble University.
At least I think all should occupy it,
and it is this: While we are striving
to make industrious and useful citi-
zens of the young who are entrusted
to us, we shall at the same time do
our best to make them good patriots
and devoted lovers of their mother
State. Carolinians have a glorious
heritage, and the children of Carolina
should learn early to prize it as it de
served. Their chief pride should be
in the stainless escutcheon of their
State, and their highest honor, the
privilege of perpetuating and guard
ing its purity. They ought to love it,
and live for it, and if need be die for
it, as so many of their ancestors have
done. They ought to prize her ira
ditions, her history, the spirit of her
institutions and of her laws. They
ought to revere as sacred thing the
memory of her great sons, and their
young hearts ought to throb and
tingle at the story of their glorious
deeds IN the days that are gone. All
our schools and all our teachers
should make sure of teaching these
things to the young.
But I am OBTAINING our friends too
long. We heartily thank them for
their encouraging presence they
come to give US kindly Godspeed
to this the beginning of our work,
and we are grateful to them. This is
the beginning and the end no mortal
vision can foresee. But we know that
honest work cannot be wholly in vain,
but will somewhere find it's reward.
We cast pebble to-day in the great
ocean of Time, and the widening
ripple will break upon the shores of
eternity. We launch our ship
freighted with hope and loyal en-
deavor; we know not what labors,
what difficulties, what trials, what
triumphs, what storms may lie ahead,
but in all its vicissitudes we shall
strive straight on toward the post as
signed us, asking for the blessing of
Him who once when the tempest was
raging high, had only to say to the
winds and waves Be still, and i'm
mediately there was a great calm.