Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-11-17
CLEMSON TEXTILE SCHOOL,
Director Beatty Tells OF Its Many
Advantages.

Advantages
| CLEMSON COLLEGE, November g.
1T is very likely that a majority OF
the cadets will attend the State Fair.
President Hartzog represented
Clemson at the recent meeting of
the Association of Southern Colleges
and Preparatory Schools, held at
Athens. An effort is being made TO
bring the next meeting to South
Carolina.
Mrs. DR.. Anderson has just re-
turned from visit to her former
home in Scotland.
DR.. Neesom has gone to Iowa for
a short while.
Mrs. Riggs is visiting in Auburn,
Alabama.
Prof. Morrison is now teaching o
volunteer class in history on Satur-
days, and has forty or fifty attendants.
At present he is taking up the his
tory Of some of the lower counties.
AS a rule, the cadets are doing fine
work, and the College machinery
was never running more smoothly
than now.
One department of the College is
not yet we'll known, the textile school.
Prof. j. II. M. Beatty, the head of
the textile department, has kindly
prepared the following article on tho
subject. Too much attention cannot
be given to this important industry
of the South. Prof. Beatty is a mas
ter in his work, as his paper shows:
PROF. BEATrY's PAPER.
at the close Of the war in 1865 the
South was left in a helpless and deg
titute condition, and her people natu-
rally turned their attention again TO
agricultural pursuits for livelihood.
Since that time this section has not
gained in wealth as it would like to
have done, and all kind of theories
nave been set fourth to show why
this is the case. The greater part of
the reason, probably, is in the fact
that we are the raw material produc-
ers of nation, when we have every
natural advantage here to manufac-
ture all of our own raw product.
Cotton is the greatest of all crops
raised for manipulative purposes,
and is capable of manipulation on u
widely diversified basis.
The best cotton in the world is
grown in the Southern States and
especially is this the case with cotton
produced on the coast of South Ca
rolina, and the islands and counties
contiguous on the coast.
Our water power IL all that o
manufacturing people could ask for,
and in most instances can be devel-
oped very oheaply. In places whore
water power is not available coal is
near at hand, and can be had at rea-
sonably low figures. This section of
country has such railroad facilities
as to keep it in easy touch with in
land or coast. If statisticians' re-
ports are correct in saying that "only
about one-half Of the laboring class
OF the South are engaged in steady
employment" then there is q plenti-
ful supply of labor for years to come.
Every manufacturing plant eB:ab-
lished among these people means
steady work, good homes and happi-
ness to many who are now merely
eking out miserable existence.
The South is realizing these facts
more each year and it is interesting
to note with what rapid strides the
Southern people are taking up the
development of their industrial pur-
suits.
This being true, that the South
has every natural advantage to man
ufacturers and that manufacturing
interests arc rapidly being developed
here, then it is very essential that
these interests should bo sustained
by tho very best facilities possible to
the special education in textile indus
tries.
England and Germany owe their
enviable positions in the to- tilo world
to their unsurpassed system of textile
schools. In the last sixteen years
the North has established two schools
of this character, and has run them
successfully, and, judging from tho