The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-23
EQUIPMENT INADEQUATE
Many Young Men Have to be Turned
Away For Lack Of Room.
A TEXTILE BUILDING NEEDED MOST
Other Necessities Are an Armory and Gymn.
asium, Dormit ries, a Chap-I and Audi
forum and Mschine Shop and
Foundry. Deb on College.
Foundry. DEBT on College.

The following extracts from the re-
port of President Winston, of the Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical College,
will prove of deep interest to every
body in North Carolina:
The college is now in its twelfth year.
Its history shows a growing demand for
technical and industrial education. The
rapid growth of manufactures in our
State, the certainty of further increase
and multiplication, the opening up of new
Industries, the utilization of water power
by mechanical or electrical transmission,
the development of intensive and diversi-
fed agriculture, especial trucking, fruit
growing, stock-raising and dairying, the
setting up and management of electric
plants for light and power, of water
works, ice plants, cold storage, laundrles,
and other small industries requiring ma
chinery, are creating large and increas
ing demand for engineers, draughtsmen,
electricians, machinists, mechanics, tex
tile workers, dairymen, stock-men and
farmers. The demand is far greater than
the supply. This college ought to meet
it. We ought to furnish the skilled labor
and technical knowledge necessary to de-
velop the resources of North Carolina. We
are striving to do so, but are prevented
by lack of teachers, tools, machinery and
buildings. For lack of resources the col
lege is turning away almost daily lads
who desire industrial education. 1t de-
clines absolutely to receive as students
any who seek merely general education
without Industrial and technical training.
We are doing a work separate and dis
tinct from other colleges and the Uniyer
sity. There is absolutely no competition
between us. Our duty is too plain, our
opportunity too large, to be misunder
stood or neglected. We are educating
lads to promote the Development of the
State, to harness wood and water, steam
and electricity to human service, to sub
stitute machinery for muscle, skill for
.clumsness and economical knowl-
edge for expensive ignorance. In do
ing this we shall provide both the
prosperity and the happiness of the State;
and shall furnish increased opportunity
and necessity for the work of other educa-s
tional institutions.
THE NEEDS OF THE COLLEGE.
If the purpose and the duty of this
college have been correctly stated, / need
scarcely say that its needs are very in
adequately supplied. It's present equip
ment is barely a good foundation; not
comparable TO that of similar colleges In
the Southern States, much less in the
North. Even elementary training schools
in Northern and Western cities, prepar-
ing lads for technical colleges, are better
equipped than this college for manual
instruction.
Doubtless a committee of the Legisla-
ture will visit and inspect the college.
If so. its needs will be manifest. Gould
the people of the State see the charac-
ter of our instruction and the inadequa-
cy of our equipment, could they observe
the daily work of 300 young men, striv-
ing to fit themselves to be not only use
full citizens, but skilled workers, wealth
producers, promoters, designers and man
ayers of industrial enterprises, they
would quickly complete it's equipment and
make its instruction available to every
boy in the State that desires it.
A TEXTILE BUILDING.
Our greatest need is textile building
Nearly half the Southern States have
already established textile schools. Mis-
sissippi appropriated $4,000 for this pur-
pose. Georgia and South Carolina have
expended each, over 1000. Alabama has
just taken steps to establish such IL
school. Texas and Louisiana are about
to follow. Pennsylvania has a large and
we'll equipped school. Massachusetts has
erected and equipped two textile schools.
North Carolina needs textile school