The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-10

tile school is established and equipped, !
and longer if the mill men so desire. !
nine practical cotton mill men might be !
added to the board in the shape of an
advisory committee The board itself
should not be less than twenty-one, ex-
elusive of the advisory committee lnl
selecting men to conduct the great de-
partment here proposed let it he remem-
bered that one heart is worth a dozen
heads in any enterprise. Heads are not
lacking, but in the fifteen years since the
agitation began / have found compara-
lively few hearts thoroughly interested
in the cause of industrial education. But
one heart in earnest can fire many hearts
and heads. even "eool heads" as ultra
conservative men without inv erciun are
sometimes called
The personnel of the board is of the
greatest Importance. If the Legislature
will elect men like Mr.. d. y. Tompklns
of Charlotte; Mr. Entwistle, of Hooking
ham; James H. Ruffin, of Rocky Mount;
Nick Allen, of Wake county; Mr.. W, A.
Irwin, of Durham; Col. John ). Cum
ningham of Person county; Donald Mac
Rae, of Wilmington; Herbert b. Norris,
of Wake county; Col. Julian ). Carr,
S. l.. Patterson, F. o. Moring, III. u.
ConnOr. c. w. Gold. Frank Ray, w. L..
Hill. of Duplin. all new men, to which
might be added three or four men who
have already served on the board, they
would not only establish textile school,
with the money now lawfully belonging
to the college, on large and increasing
scale. but they would greatly increase
the efficiency of the college i'll all its de-
partmcuts They would take ii as eff
fectually out of politics as the University
now is; they would stop the perennial
complaint about the waste and eXpendl-
lures of the Agricultural Department.
and they would have five hundred stu
dents at the college in two years. L WISH
to nut myself on record with respect 20
this college, as / have done before, that
it is destined to reyoutionlze what IS
called education in North Carolina; that
it is destined to produce the nest eggs
of thousand manufactures III our
State: that directly and indirectly i'll the
next ten years it will educate or intlu-
ence along industrial lines ten thousand
young men whom we need to help de-
velop our resources and who will stay
in North Carolina if we will give them
something to do and make them nu-
cleus around which will be invested mill
lions of now unproductive capital.
The Legislature might have am eye
to preventing positions on this board
from being sought by men having only
private interests to subserve. For eX-
ample. fertilizer inspectors are spoils
which most anybody can aspire to.
These should all be appointed only upon
the nomination of the Commissioner OF
Agriculture or the chief, officer of the
analyses of fertilizer, or both. In this
way board elected to conduct a great
department would not have their time
taken up with serving tables" or as the
modern phrase is, serving pie counters.
The surplus arising from the tax on
fertilizers can as lawfully be used to
erect building for the textile school
as for n museum--and if one story of
such a building be used to conduct the
fertilizer analyses. such a building would
he far closer in the letter and spirit of
the United States decision in 1.-The Pa
tapsco Company VS.. Agricultural De-
partment." lately sndered.
Very little legislation is needed except
n law putting the three departments to-.
cnther under one Board of Trustees.
The work which this Legislature may do
which will make it monumental, is to
select trustees able, patriotic and eff
Gent men, who viii put their heads and
their hearts together to establish out of
the moneys already in reach great de-
partment of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts. Men are more important than
institutions They make institutions
great or little according as they are great
or little. 1t was the men behind the
guns MT Manila and Santiago. and not
the guns. that won the victories. The
Spanish had guns, too, but they did not
know how to use them.
w J. PEELE.
If you would succeed stick to your
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