The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1901-09-19
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Man Has Little Faith In
Manual Training Scheme
ne TRIED IT MANY LONG YEARS AGO
Furnishes Interesting and Laughab'e
Narration Of His Experience In
that Line While a College
Student.

Manual training is no new thing.
About sixty years ago we boys had IL
at the Manual Labor school In old
Gvinnett. We had to work with our
hands three hours day. We worked
with the hoe or the AK or plowed corn
and cotton or hauled wood or did some
kind Of farm work and the three hours
of manual labor was intended TO pay
for our board. But that was q mis-
take. The boys didn't do oAe hours
faithful work; they frollcked. Captain
Germany, the old hero Of Shepherds
plantation during the Creek war, was
the overseer and he said he had rath'
err fight Indians than watch those
boys. He was a good-hearted, brave
man, but he couldn't manage hun
bred boys who hadn't been raised to
work and whose fathers were rich and
had negroes to work their farms.
Most OF these boys had been Wild at
homS and had been sent to this school
to be tanned and reformed. Poor Cap
tain Garmany. He pleaded with them
and took the foremost row and showed
them how to hold the pillow or split
rails or grind an AK, but when he was
watching and training one squad In
one field, another squad In another
field would slip of and go In washing.
The old-fashioned wagons had linch'
pins to hold the wheels on and some
times the boys would lose Inch pin
on the way to the woods and the wheel
would come of and they would go back
to the blacksmith shop to get another
pin and fool away the time until the
three hours were out and not load OF
wood hauled. Captain Garmany gave
up In despair before the year was out
and they tried another with no better
success. As a general rule, a rich mans
son Ia not going to work with his
hands. We had a very fine lot Of
boys from the best families, such as
the Gouldings and Hollis, Of Columbus;
the Lintons, of Athens; the Aliens, OF
Clarkesville; the Hendricks, Of Butts,
and lot Of Harrises and Hoyles and
Woftords and Johnsons, but they eat
iuo.e man 'ney earneu anu 30 inc "
Rloy ssl- - la Ialiu l1s --ahS~ me
'uaVtts labor feature was abandoned
and my father, who had inaugurated it
ana was president OF the board, had
70 loot the bill OF $4,000 for Its failure.
since tnat DAY It has been set down as
maxim that three hours or work OF
. rien mans son won't feed him. But
tnese boys didn't turn out bad. Most
OF tnem made good scholars and citi'
zens' Thomas Allen became comp
troiier general OF the state, Ned Could
ing was colonel OF the Ninth Georgia.
ana william I. Wofford a brigadier
general and DR.. Jim Alexarder and
d. HENDRICKS stand high In their pro-
tession' Gig Wright and Bill Wright
ana Ramsey Alexander and James
haltoie became judges Of the circuit
courts
was Illuminating about goot old DR..
Patterson, our principal-how fat he
was ana now faithful and indulgent
ana sometimes OF a hot sultry after.
noon, while we we're laundering along
through Caesars commentaries, he
would go fast asleep in his chair and
we would skip a whole paragraph and
keep on reading and skipping until his
book would fall on the floor and wake
him up. Then he would hunt all about
to hnd out where we were at, but he
never complained or made any sign Of
suspicion. remember our debating
society and how once a month. on Fri.
day evening, we had to take sides
and discG4s some great question.
About dozen Of tho older boys were
engaged In II. and though / was the