The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-16
TO TRAIN INOUSTRIALLY
Editor R. E. Edmunds Addresses the
Cotton Spinners,
ASSOCIATIONS WORK AT ATLANTA DONE
DR.. McAden Reelected President and the Board
Of Governors Increased From Nine to
Fifteen. Association Meets
Next at Charl- son.
(By the Associated Press.


Atlanta, Ga, Nov 15.-The Southern
Spinners' Association concluded it's work
today and adjourned sine die. DR.. j. II.
McAdem, of Charlotte, was reelected
president, and c. B. Bryant, also of Char
lotte, was chosen secretary and treasurer.
The board of governors was increased
from nine to fifteen with D. A. Tompkins
as chairman.
The invitation of Major ]. C. Henphill,
of Charleston that the Spinners meet
next year in the South Carolina city was
accepted and the convention will be held
in Charleston some time in May, 1902.
A communication was read from Edward
Atkinson, of Boston, in which he made a
plea for the manufacture of better goods
and referred TO the possibilities of the ex-
port trade along that line. The paper
was referred to the board of governors.
A feature of the session was the ad
dress of r. II. Edmunds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record. of Baltimore. He
suggested that each manufacturer Of the
South endow a scholarship at some in
dustrial school for the purpose of edu-
eating young men who were unable tc
bear the expenses of education. This,
he said, would cost only small amount
probably not more than $125 year-and
would prove of incalculable benefit to this
South industrially.
Mr. Edmunds said in part:
"The South has almost forgotten the
wealth-creating potentialities of it's poor
white bows.
"IS it necessary for me to detail the
explanation of this lamentable fact?
MAY it not be made broadly in the
statement that the South so long occu-
pied as a mere producer of raw material
for industry has been slow to recognize
its greatest raw material and to make it
available by training it's white boys and
it's white girls as they ought to be
trained to handle its other raw materials
to the best advantage?
ut is true we have the industrial
school at Columbus. Miss, the first,
believe. to be established in the United
States, if not in the world, for the sole
benefit of white girls; we have the tex
tile school of Clemson college, with it's
younger sisters in North Carolina,
Georgia and Mississippi the Miller
school in Virginia, the McDonough school
in Maryland and we'll developed schools
at Blacksburg, Raleigh, Starkville. Knox
Vile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, At
lanta and in other agricultural colleges,
where limited number OF our young
men may be set upon the right path to
success in industrial careers These
means are, however, very small in COM
parison with the task for the South ex-
pected TO be accomplished through them.
Fright here in Atlanta, in the Georgia
School of Technology, a plan has been
started through the generosity of Mr..
Aaron French. of Pittsburg.
"Mr. French's plan provides for schol-
arships to be held by boys at least six
teen years of age and the sons of fam
lilies owning less than $4,000 worth OF
taxable property. The scholarships,
awarded by competitive examination, run
for four years, the holders Of them being
furnished at such time as the president
of the institution may think necessary
for expenses, books, etc, to an amount
not exceeding 1925 a year The holders
must give small monthly notes payable
after graduation covering the amount of
money advanced upon the scholarship
and bearing no interest before maturity.
Two ends may be gained by this plan:
The recipient of the scholarship is reliev-
ed of any feeling that he is dependent
upon the bounty of others, and through
the payment of the small notes as they
fall due, the scholarships will become
lf-perpetuating.
I'VE should elaborate and expand this
plan. Scholarships should be provided by
Southern men in every Southern instftu-
tion, which shows itself worthy to ad-
minister them.
There are in the South SSS cotton
mills. dozen or more great systems of
railways and hundreds of industrial un-
dertakings of various kinds, which, with
out trenching upon their capital or with
out diminishing aught of the dividends
for their stockholders or individual own
ers, could provide the means for at least
LOCO scholarships. l should like to see
1000 founded at the beginning of the
next four years, so that by 1906 we should
have 1000 Southern boys enjoying them.
Each cotton MILL steel plant. oil we'll,
lumber mill or railroad now able should
promise 20 contribute for four years or
less SIPS a year for the necessary ex-
penses of at least cne poor boy at a
Southern technical school who shall show
himself by examination to be capable of
enjoying such aid. The recipient of the
ccholarlhin shall hind hiucolf-