The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-28

/ taf0lintanS Is tndC we 90 not Eaiue
our own people and when stranger
! comes among us, just as soon as we
get acquainted with him and discover
his real worth we are too apt to con-
slider him as common as we are our
! selves, and hold our hands out to some
body from some other part of the
world. But we as North Carolinians
should be proud of one man and his
work, but especially the teacher who
has beside his love for his State true
pride in his profession, his heart
should swell and thrill with eXulta-
ton that he belongs to a profession
that produces such man as President
c. d. McIver. He is doing a grand and
magnificent work on the right line.
The a. and M.College is also a monu-
ment to our material advancement and
has a bright future before it, espe-
cially under its present management.
If you desire true material advance
ment, the men who are doing the real
and substantial training, the hand as
we'll as the mind, must be treated with
equal consideration as those who teach
cleaner and more ornamental ACQUIRE
ments.
We value a thing according to its
cost, and while a dollar is a moor
standard for a great many things. it
| is natural for us to use it; therefore
| to put technical training on a par with
other kinds, those engaged in it must
be valued as high as others, but the
authorities of our colleges have a fine
example to point to, to Justify them
in this mistaken course towards tech
nical institutions. Our law makers
! put the salary of the Treasurer Of the
State at exactly twice what they nut
/ the superintendent of Public Instruc-
4 TONS, thereby stamping the mark OF
/ inferiOrity upon brain work in COM
/ parison with the almighty dollar.
showing that they considered the man
/ who takes care of the money twice as
valuable as he that looks after the
! brain.
ELEVATE YOUR PROFESSION.
You should exert yourselves to eIe-
! vate your own profession, the opinion
! is too prevalent that anybody that has
a smattering of education can teach
until they find something more pro-
! fitable to do, the consequence is that
when there is an opening at the head
/ of some educational institution the
eyes of the public too often turn to
! some other profession to secure the
! person, and then not always the best
man in that profession. For example,
when that great and good man DR..
/ Frank l.. Reid died the State was
/ searched for a minister to take his
/ place. At last some level headed man
| asked "Why not try a teacher?" It
was done, and now Greensboro Female
| College has a President second to none.
! Teachers as a general thing are not
! paid enough, but how can it be rene
/ died? Let us look for moment at the
! Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
an order that has not a word about
1 the almighty dollar. Its whole teach
| ing and influence is towards elevating
a profession, and in the last twenty
years it has literally revolutionized
! this class of labor. In old times to be
an engineer was too often to be plug
or a drunkard, now no true member
will even go into bar room. But it
is not to boast of this order, of which
| am so proud, that / began, but to
point out the fact, that elevaing this
class has raised their pay in the last
ten years at least fifty per cent. In
other words, they give better article
and the natural law of human events
give them better price.
/ began by saying that | was here
to-day not as a statistician and / have
tried not to put any statistics into
what / have said, but if you will par
don me, / will call your attention TO
some few figures. In 1891 Congress APP
propriated $4,000 for the investigation
Of technical and trade schools, the re-
port is included in the Sth Annual Re-
port of Col. c. ID. Wright, Commission
er of Labor of the United States. This
is one of the most accurate and inter
esting books on this line in existence
From it we find that out of sos grad
yates of training schools, GIL were
superior to the old class of workmen
in the use of tools at the beginning
of his employment, while 135 have not
shown themselves to possess such SUI
periority From the returns from onei
French school we find out OF fittyl
women graduates that forty nine were|
far superior to those who learned their
trade in the old way, proving conclu-
sivelv that book learning, technical
training, prepares the person to fight
the battle of life more successfully
than those who have not such oppor-
/ tunitieS.
Now, although l began by giving my
subject as 1.-THE Relation Technical
Training Bears to Material Advance
ment," / have wandered over so mitch
ground that you can treat me as the
little five year old did his picture. He
was entertaining his sisters beau, and
after talking out he borrowed pencil
and a piece of paper and asked the gem
tleman to sit still while he drew his
picture. After working away a good
long time he stopped. The gentleman
got up and looked over his shoulder
and in an amused voice said:
Johnny, that does not look like me-"
Examining his picture very critically
he looked up into the gentleman's face
and said, ''No, I don't believe it do.
believe l will put tail to it and call
it dog" Ladies and gentlemen, you
have my permission to put a tail to
these remarks and call them anything
you please