The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-12-28

| lhS h)ONShOlb VI SOlOViL IhiAl
and other industries, of the possibi
tiles dormant in considerable POI
ton of the white population.
1t is true we have the industrial
school at Columbus, Miss, the first
| believe, to be established in til,
United States, if not in the world
for the sole benefit Of white girls
we have the textile school of Glenn
son College, with its younger sis
tiers in North Carolina, Georgia and
Mississippi; the Miller School in Vir
ginia, the McDonogh School in
Maryland, and well-deve!oped
schools at Blacksburg, Raleigh,
Starkville, Knoxville, New Orleans,
Baton Rouge, Atlanta, and in other
agricultural colleges, where a
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
comparison with the task for the
South, expected to be accomplished
through them.
A few of these schools, possess
ing nothing like the resources of
the Massachusetts School of Tech.
noIogy of Boston, the Sheffield
Scientific School of New Haven,
the Troy Polytechnic, the Phila-
delphia Trade Schools or the Stew
ems Institute Of Hoboken, have
reached wonderful degree of pro-
ftclency, which, recognized in the
employment of their graduates at
varied withdrawing tasks in
wideIy-separated parts Of the coun.
try. These have been actuated by
the spirit which sees in difficulties
only the incentive to endeavor, and
strikingly illustrated in the experi>
ence in earlier years of one of our
leaders in the cause of industrial
training. l refer to DR.. Charles
W. Dabney. AS a teacher Of Sci
ence twentyodd years ago lie was
hampered by the lack of suitable
and q well-stocked
cabinet. Nothing daunted, he led
his pupils into the laboratory of the
fields and woods, and showed them
the minerals set in their natural
cabinets. 1t was not by chance
hat of his small class one became
State geologiSt of Georgia, another {
onnd his placein the United States &
geological survey, and the third in s
he Smithsonian Institute. These t
tudents in their special ways were II
mt types of other southern bows, Il
rho wanted and who want only the S
hadow of a chance to show what d
in them. We see the value to a
he south and to the boy of tech b
Ical training in Samuel Spencer,
lslng from rOdman in railroad
ngineering corps to the presidency 9
one OF the greatest transporta- N
on systems in the south and in the "
ountry; i'll Smith Whaley, relin- l.
nlShIng a career of ease and sup y
orting himself by the work of his i,
VII hands while fitting himself to
'come the builder Of the largest
'ttOn mill in the south; in d. A. "
gaining in the face of W
eat odds the position of authority
| the subject of all that relates to
'tton, its manufacture and its by
Oducts, from the boil to the bottle =.
olive oil, from the spinning-room u,
the engine room, and from the lie
Id to the markets of the world. al
not this body, indeed, representa- -
C OF the grit developed in the ", ",
rd school of experience which W
S brought our successful indus ad
al schools to their present posi- II
II of usefulness, even though 81
'ir legitimate goal 10 hardly in T ~,
ht? 8 i
Some of our schools, perhaps the in
j0rity, we must >regretfuIIy ac- hin
oWledge, have not kept pace 81,
n the growth in material wealth r.,
their respective states. For this no,