The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-08-24

man to run a particular machine wher
he does not expect to continue running
it; the hand does not want to quit a
machine on which he is getting gooc
wages to learn another, when he will
at first earn very little; the result is
that in any large establishment you
have hun6feds of bright, competent
men who know their departments
thoroughly, and not one man who has
a general knowledge Of the business IN
all it's details. This, in my judgment,
has caused the demand for technical
education, and to be successful these
schools which have sprung up all over
Europe and this country must meet
the requirements.
1t is not skilled hands that they are
to supply, for man can learn far
more thoroughly and practically the
absolute work in any Of the large
establishments in this country than
in the best technical college; but it
is skilled heads that the mechanical
and agricultural work is demanding.
Your student must learn the general
scona the nlan. the reason Of the
work. He can learn on the farm how
to plough, to hoe, to ditch-teach him
when to plough and hoe, where to
ditch, what certain soils need, what
crops pay best, how to handle his pro-
duct, how to save and build up his
land, aud how to utilize everything on
the farm. On his practical knowledge
of the work itself graft the scientific
and theoretical, teach him in three
years what it has taken the agricultu-
raj world hundreds of years, by ex-
perience and experiment, to learn. So
with manufacturing, your student can
learn to caro-, spin and weave in a
mill, so far as the labor Of doing it is
concerned better than in technical
school and get pay for his work be-
sides; what you must teach is how to
manipulate the machinery SO as to get
the best results, the incest goods, at
the least cost.
He must be taught the construction
and peculiarities of the raw material,
how it may be combined and treated,
how handled that all the valuable
parts are utilized, and all foreign and
useless substances eradicated. He
must be taught what a machine should
accomplish, and be able to get the
best results from every machine in
the miN.
Production has increased much
faster than consumption, aud in these
times of fierce competition unless we
keep fully abreast in She improve
ments Of our methods, utilization OF
every advantage which nature has
given us, we will soon be out of the
contest.
Clemson College has organized and
has in successful operation two
branches of technical education, and
is just embarking on the third. Her
agricultural department is credit to
the farming population of the State,
and should be encouraged and upheld
by every man who has spark Of pride
or patriotism in his soul. Under the
guidance and control of Col. Newman
(the best example of practical and
theoretical farming combined in the
South) we shall reap great harvest
aud our children will rise up to cal
them blessed who organized and main
tained such an institution.
The mechanical department has moi
met with such conspicuous success
until recently, but it is doing gooo
work, and with the field open anc
continued effort it will give us result!
that all will be proud of. The las
few months has centred public gaze
upon its operations, and the numbe
of students of this department wht
have passed successful examination
and obtained employment in tn
United States Government service de
monstrates not only the usefulness
but the thoroughness Of the training
A third department Of technica
training has been organized, to wit
textile, and I shall discuss that mor'
particularly.
Textiles is applied to all fabric
which are woven in a loom, and it
treatment must, Of course, includ
every process from the raw materal t
the finished products prepared for tn
market. Clothes of some kind o
other have been used by the huma
family since fig leaves and the hide
of beasts were dispensed with a
o1o+b;nr ond will ha IN tho end n