The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-25
EDUCATION Of HANDS
Dr.. Winston Points Out Ncccs-
sity For it in N. c.
He Has Cl.sad His First Year as President Ct
the A. & M. College With tie High
est Measure of Success.

President Geo. r. Winston. of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
has Just completed a short lectnring
tour in behalf of industrial educa-
ton. He has spoken in Winston
Greensboro. High Point. Randleman,
Wilson. Elm City. Goldsboro. kihston.
and New Bern, addressing in all about
five thousand people He finds the
people profoundly interested in this
subject. jealous for the industrial de-
velopment of the State and realizing
The necessity of industrial education.
I'm his speeches and lectures. Or.
Winston demonstrates the following
propositions:
L. North Carolina is unable At pres
emit to compete in the production OF
staple crops with other States having
more fertile soils and better adapted
to the use of agricultural machinery.
>. The prosperity of the State de-
ponds therefore upon diverting large
proportion of our laboring population
from agriculture into other indus
tries. chiefly manufacturing.
g. North Carolina already possesses
every element requisite to make her
one of the foremost manufacturing
States of the world. excepting techni-
cal knowledge and skilled labor. Her
climate. her large and varied supply
of raw material. her abundan, water
power. her proximity to the coal
mines her facilities for transporta-
ton. her unsurpassed healthfulness.
producing constant supply OF strong
energetic. reliable, intelligent labor
of the English speaking race. wiling
to work for cheap wages. give her %
combination of advantages. not pos
sessed by any ether State in the Tn
ion.
4. The establishment Of manufac-
lures. with a large industrial popula-
ton requiring food and other com
forts and possessing abundant money
to pay for them. will cause agricul-
ture again TO be prosperous. The
dairy the garden. the orchard. the
poultry ward. the truck farm. furnish
ing supplies TO every growing local
markets. will give the farmer abund-
ant means for comfortable living and
enable him to raise corn. cotton,
wheat. oats and tobacco as surplus
crops even in competition with moro
" be improved. better methods Of
cultivation will prevail, and the yieid
of al crops. per acre. Will doubtless
be doubled or even quadrupled in the
next fifty years.
). In order 10 accomplish these re-
suits. there is need Of industrial edu-
cation along agricultural and me-
chanical lines. Our Young men must
be stimulated 10 make. themselves cap
tains of industry. and the State must
provide necessary facilities for indus
trial training.similar to those pro-
vided in other States.
Dr. Winston is just issuing ten
thousand copies Of small pamphlet
setting forth the work Of the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College. 1t is
his ambition TO make this institution
Il great factor in the industrial growth
of North Carolina; to develop il along
pureIy industrial lines. and to cut ~
off from all competition with other
institutions Of learning in North
Carolina Hereafter this college will
not receive as students Young men
desiring merely general education
without industrial and technical!
training.
DR.. Winston reaches the close Of his
first year with q record that encOur-
ages and strengthens all believers in
Industrial education. The Ngricul-
tural and Mechanical College is firm
" embedded in the hearts and con
tidence of the people, and is entering
upon a broader career of greater in
fiuence