The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-07
on THE OPPORTUNITIES OF THE,
SOUTH FOR EDUCATED
MEN AND WOMEN.
THE HONOR AND DIGNITY OF LABOR
A Hopeful View Of the Souths future from an
Industrial Stand Point. The Genius
Of The Sou herner f.r
Manufacturing.

dress 10 ule GRADUATING tidS> VI lhc ~
and NJ College yesterday evening, TAX
ing as his subject Opportunities of the
South for Educated Men and Women
The speaker found the great need of
the South to be more men and women
of technical training to utilize the
Soutfs boundleSs resources, and given
that requisite he was disposed to hold
that the South would become the COM
mercially predominant section of the
Union. He did not minimize the value Of
classical training. but thought the pres
ent rather than the past should engage
the attention of the student.
Referring briefly to the tSouth'S plight
after the orgic of the carpet-bagger and
the eX-slave he PASSED to Il brighter pc
rod-thc decade from 1890 to 1890 III
which the South increased her wealth
S3. SOC. 100000. while the middle and
Eastern States combined increased their
wealth only S3.90000O. $1,000. Among the
potent advantages of the South i'll the
race for commercial supremacy are ITS
homogeneous people. its freedom from
issues and its conservatism, all of which
mean that the present industrial revival
will be permanent. II am glad that the
Southern woman is conservative. too.
continued the speaker. IF she wanted to
vote all the demons of obstruction, de
structions and miscOnstruction could not
hinder her: but she prefers to aet the
experiment he tried elsewhere while she
adheres to the proplieties of life"
The question for the South is. shall
we accept the challenge and enter the
list of industrial competition? Two fac
tors are necessary to success: Natural
resources and trained brain to develop
them. We have the first, the second
is being supplied though the South is
tagging. OF the ten million bales of
cotton she produced last year she manu-
featured but 100000 of them. selling
the rest at SIS bale to be manufac-
tured elsewhere. line South cannot
have too many cotton factories until
they use every bale of cotton she
grows.
Cotton factories must come South for
five reasons: because of the climate, the
abundance of raw material, cheap and
conservative labor, abundant water
power and because the Southern man
has "a genius as experience shows for
the management of factories. AS to re-
sources, the speaker declared that
Chinese wall could be built around
North Carolina and it could supply the
wardrobe and the table of King Solo
mon.
Passing to a comparison of classical
and technical training DR.. HartZog said
it was very we'll for the student to
know all about the aqueducts of ancient
Rome. but i. was equally necessary for
him to understand the water supply of
ID -. sazl,,.
practical value. The old system edu-
Gated away from the present, the new
system edlrcates into the present. Teach
the story of how the Clyclops wrought
Joves thunderbclts, but teach also the
story of how Bessemer discovered the
process for making steel
Technical training dignifies labor. In
every town there are Young men who
that they toll not neither do they spin,
nor was Solomon in all his glory arrayei
like one of them. A necessary lesson
is that the only disgrace of honest labor
is i'm doing it badly The world never
discounts the man who applies brains to
his works. "IIewer of wood and
drawer of water" has long been a stock
phrase for the mental laborer: but the
man who puts in pumps and pipes and
towers is called the superintendent of
water works and paid Il big salary and
is Il respected member of society, though
he is a drawer OF water. The flurni
ture manufacturer is "a newer of wood
along with the man who fells trees at
fifty cents a day. but he has the esteem
and respect of all men, because he uses
his head as well as his hands.
The world praises the self-made man
for his level head and his common sense.
But there are self-made men i'll the
college as well as out of it. The col
leSe can not supply hearts and BRAINS
the eagle may sit on the goose's egg,
but it matches only a goose. In college
as out tire man must make himself.
The world wants knowledge that can
walk. 1t has no sympathy for the
trundle-bed scholar. The scholar must
always make for the betterment of his
environment or he is a failure. The
essence of education is in graduating
selfishness from the human heart. The
perfect man is the man who trains heal
and heart; he must carry dictionary
under one arm and the Bible under the
other: he must have the strength of
Samson. the brain of Socrates. the
heart of Christ What is needed is the
scholar who shall go down among tho
people, and cast a glamour over |
common things.
AS to the work of technical schools tn" |
speaker said there are siXty-three such |
institutions in the United States. with |
$4,000 students last year and latterIy |
these schools have been increasing in the |
number of students enrolled at the rate |
of - per cent year.
In rnD clusiou DIR HlrfZOo sod |
the opinion that the ultimate settlement |
of the labor and capital struggle would |
come through the technical school.
A large audience heard DR.. Hartzor
and he was vigorously spplauded as his
terse and forerful sentences striicE
home.
After the address tlr dance preimn-
nary to the annual german, which occurs
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