The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-19
CORPORATIONS AND EDUCATION.

CORPORATIONS AND EDUCATION.
The influence Of commercial ana indus
trial evolution upon education is a prob
lem which is receiving the attention OF
some Of the best thinkers. Senator Dc
pew touched upon the point IN a recent
speech when he said. .Iu these days it is
wen to know much. but it is imperative
70 know some ere thing wen" Mr. James
&C Cannon. president of the National Cred
it Mems Association, went more deeply
and specifically into the matter in an adj
dress delivered recently. He pointed out
that we at the present time are passing
through great Industrial change, which
VIII require changes 10 other than indus
trial methods to meet the new conditions.
The consolidation Of various interests into
so-called trusts. he said is destined to
modify our system of political economy.
and turn into new and untred currents
the entire business of the country. Years
ago young men were brought up and edu-
gated along lines which would fit them 10
enter business for themselves; but with
the large number of corporations which
are springing up throughout the country
to-day, and the tendency of all business
enterprises to organize as corporations,
The situation is so decidedly changed that
hereafter we must look forward to edu-
eating a class of men who will manage
these corporations upon salary basis.
There never was time when a business
man needed thorough business education
50 much as he does to-day
The great trusts and corporations are
steadily cutting down the number of op-
portunities for young men to successfully
engage in business for themselves. They
must. to great and growing extent, be
content to enter the services of the cor
porations an salaried positions. To achieve
success in these positions, they must be
thoroughly equipped. The corporations
viii demand the best talent for their
places of trust and high pay In a con-
siderable degree, it will be a matter of the
survival of the fttest9 The young men
with the most natural ability and the
most thorough education along special
lines win be the ones chosen to manage
imperative to know some one thing we'll"
says Senator Depew.
1t is the desire of every father to edu-
cate his son so that he may have a favor
abe start in life. hence the thoughtful
parent is beginning to ask himself what is
the best course to be pursued in view of
the trend of current commercial and in
dustral life. And what is to be the course
of schools and colleges; will they not have
to revise and modify their curricuiums
giving more attention TO special and tech
meal branches? Andrew Carnegie a short
while ago expressed the opinion that there
was danger of too much education, and
Coils P. Huntington went further and de-
clared that the youth of the country were
already being over-educated. Probably
neither of these gentlemen meant to sug-
gest that a young man could acquire too
much Of practical knowledge, but that val
liable time might be wasted in the ac-
QUESTION of that which would prove imr
practicable.
Many new industrial plants are going
into operation and others are projected in
all parts of the country. The plants may
be owned by corporations, but there is a
demand for competent men to manage
them. This demand must be supplied from
the archaeological schools of which there
are at present too few in this country
There is only one such school in the state
of Georgia, with its hundreds of mills and
factories, its many mines, its almost un-
limited water power and its tens of thou
sands Of acres of mineral and timbered
lands awaiting development. There should
be another state chronological school es-
tablished at the earliest possible day, and
it should be planted at Savannah.