The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-06-28
NERMAN SCHOOLS LEAD.
American Consul Praises Germany's
System OF Industrial Education.


ALBANY. N. y. June s7,-Address.
ing the university eoLvocatlon, J, c.
Monaghan. ex-united States consul at
ChemnitE. said OF industrial education
In Germany,
1T may be best to plunge right into
the midst Of the German industrial
system by saying Il is excellent In It's
results. II is composed OF Industrial,
art. commercial. high and technical
schools. Because we have built up the
richest nation on earth without such
system. some are saying the talk OF
great need Cor technical education Is
nonsense. The question Is not so much
what we are as. with such schools. what
we might have been. We have no
hesitation in saying, lacking these
schools Germany. instead Of occupying
her present proud position at the head
OF continental states, would be strug-
Cling to maintain the integrity OF the
empire.
Germans are practically the only
people on earth who nave irst-class
training schools. They were wise
enough to put the practical maohinlsts
side by side with the practical tanner
The reactions not understood by the
one were understood by the other
The result is that Germany leads the
world in many. II not all. feathers. II
will interest American readers to learn.
however. that the tanning school at
Freiburg. Saxony. is fitted with ma
chimes invented in this country. while
the head director was FOR fifteen years
foreman In a famous Milwaukee tan
merry. Germans send their boys out to
learn languages and to study foreign
markets. and Germans are better
known In the modern world than the
Romans were in the ancient world.
Germany has had the schoolmaster
abroad at every step IN her progress.
The schoolmaster was at Ludwighafen
when DR.. Lear and ais chemists took
the refuse matter of the worlds gas
houses and converted It into a hundred
different colors FOR the dyes OF this and
other countries. DR.. Caro- told me II
years ago that the dream OF German
chemists at that time was grander
than that Of any ancient alchemist or
philosopher being above book or
alembic, for theirs was a hopeless task.
DR.. Caro- and his chemists made no
effort to turn the baser metals 10 gold.
but to find an artificial substitute for
indigo. Twelve months ago they sue
ceeded; and so successful were their
efforts that tine United States apprais-
ers put their product as high in the
duty schedules as the natural product
Of India or Ceylon.'
Mr.. Monaghan spoke Of the technl-
cal schools. their places in helping for
ward the empire. and commercial edu-
cation. In 1870 Germany had "a per
cent Of its people on farms. Today
1t has only 80 per cent, and In this
connection he said Il was hardly nee
essary 10 add that the empires con-
tinued success is due to the marvellous
methods of education. Then the speak
er said:
"The German schoolmaster has done
his work well. The broken fragments
Of an empire. once discordant states,
were welded by his power into the
most compact forces since Napoleon
sank into his island grave. He has
changed the empire from a slow-mov-
ing, hard-working, almost poverty
stricken agricultural state to an indus
trial and commercial one, rich in ma
terial wealth beyond all that her best
and most ambitious statesmen bellev-
ed possible"