The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-18
EDUCATION DAYASUCCESS.
Over Fifteen Thousand People at the
An6nSla EXpOSitiOl.

1uNADei IA fN'ANANAA'
A speoiaI Train Brings $50 Girls
from the Georgia Normal and In
d1striaI College-Dr. ]. L. N. Curry
Delivers an Address-Wealt the
outgrowth Of Skilled and IntelH-
gent Labor.
Augusta. Ga. Nov. 17.-Education day
at the Augusta Exposition brought out
1900 school children and twice as many
thousand parents and relatives of the
little ones. Two hundred and fifty girls
from the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College came on a special tram 10 pdrJlcl-
pate in the exercises
The orator of the day was DR. J. L. NJ
Curry. trustee of the Peabody and Slater
funds and eN-Cnited States minister TO
Spain Georgia is DIR. Curry's native
state and he was given an ovation.
DR.. Curry said that he would not think
much of any man or woman who. on such
an occasion, would not feel proud 10 be
Georgian. Listening to the eloquent
speakers who had preceded him he could
no5 think that anyone could feel other
wise than the deepest pride in being
member of this commonwealth. l con-
graduate you on this exposition.
GREAT OBJECT LESSON.
It is a great object lesson bringing be
fore us what has been accomplished, sug-
costing what can be accomplished, and
furnishinga stimulOus to granderprogress.
/ congratulate you upon the fact that
your distinguished president has brought
TO it intelligence, enterprise, tact, perse-
verance and courage.
DR. Curry spoke of Augustus beauty,
of its unexcelled situation, its plentiful
and cheap water power, its vast agricul-
tural territory and proximity 70 the eX-
traOrdinary mineral resources Of the
south, connected with all sections by rail-
road and in close connection with Port
Royal, port unequalled by any on the
Atlantic coast This exposition is not
for the purpose that we should set up a
mile post indicating our progress thus far,
but rather that we should take courage
and advance still further, that Georgia,
South Carolina and other southern states
should be in advance of all.
WEALTH TIE RESULT OF WORK.
Wealth, individual or national is not
the result of chance, or fraud, or hocus
pocus legislation or secret organizations,
Wealth here and everywhere is the result,
the Outgrowth and progress of skilled
and intelligent labor Soil, climate, cleo
tricity, the forces of nature are all so
many evidences of wealth, but must be
seized and utilized by man, and just in
proportion as that labor is skilled and in
telligent, just in such proportion can it be
used to develop the nation. Ignorance
never has contributed one iOta to the hap
piness. prosperity, or wealth in any coun-
try Take a piece of iron. stone, or gold
ore; if undeveOped of what worth, what
value, what utilityY Nothing at all. La
Dor must extract the gold, must utilize it
for the uses Of man.
TALENT UNDEvELoPED USELESS.
If it be true that the natural products
in the earth are useless of what use is
talent undeveloped! As you develop the
mind it becomes source Of happiness,
wealth and prosperity. French artisans
stand at the head of the world, because
their intellect has been trained and in
dustrial education mixed with common
school education Slavery existed in this
country II has persisted, and | thank
God for it. 1 do not stand here to
speak of the morality or immortality
OF slavery. l speak of it because it
was a curse. 1t cursed us with ignorant,
uuintelllgent labor. Diversity is the
remedy of the evils that afflict the couu-
try. We want our people to grow and
manufacture what is necessary for the
consumption of the people. We want
schools where the people shall be trained
in the industrial arts, thus closing the
gap between the school room and prac-
tical life. If in our schools we have a
combination Of hand and brain then will
the country be made to blossom as the rose.
President j. II. Chapel, of the Geor-
gia Normal and Industrial College, made
d very happy speech,
President Patrick Walsh was MASTER of
ceremonies and Superintendent of Edu-
cation Lawton b. Evans delivered the
welcome address. A feature of the ex-
ercises was the choral singing by GOO
school children