The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-07-03
Worth Attention.

For hundred years young Caro-
hnians coming out of the high
schools and colleges have had their
attention directed to Unconstitutional
Limitations" with the example of
The leading men pointing to the learn
ed professions, and the ways of amb-
tion, mostly political. But times
change and we perforce must change
with them. Probably thousand young
men and thousand young women
nave left academy halls within the last
Two weeks in this State equipped only
1or teaching and studying the profes-
slOnS,
In South Carolina it is no longer
purely an agricultural condition. Az
rlcultural fields are also crowded TO
choklng Again, not one in ten far
mers can turn over to daughter or son
conveniently equipped plantation or
1arm. 1T is soon here in our midst TO
pe mechanical age. Competition will
De sharp, and skill alone is the weapon
OF victory. A railroad President pass
ing the shops of his company found
the seventeen year old son of distin.
gulshed lawyer friend, in oyeralls,
working with hammer and topgs. and
Immediately called upon his friend and
offered pecuniary aid to the father to
send the boy to college. The offer was
rejected, the boy was kept at the shops
ana no" as practical railway man,
who worked his way up, enjoys an all
most princely salary.
The times change and we must no
prepared to meet the change-to ride
the wave,
Honor and shame from no condition
rise,
Act well your part, there all the honor
lies" 'o'
From the Richmond Times we ex.
tract the following article:
THE QUESTION OF TIE HOUR.
1t was announced several DAYS ago
that the Rev. DR.. S. a. Steel. of Pc
tersburg, had accepted an offer to take
charge OF an industrial school i'm Ala.
Dama In speaking of the matter yes
terday, DR.. Steel said that thouphtful
mon in Alabama had long since aTrjved
at the conclusion that there was an
economic side to the so.called race
problem. These men have seen the
work that Booker Washington is DOING
In Tuskegee, turning out each wear
from ms industrial school large mum
per OF young negroes who have been
trained for the industrial world and
they are convinced that it is necessary
10 establish industrial schools in that
state for the training of white bows.
Dr. Steel Is going into this work with
earhesthess ana enthusiasm, and with
the determination to give the white
boys of Alabama an OPPORTUNITY tn oct
a PRACTICAL education. We believo
That he is undertaking a great and
good work and we heartily agree with
MIN IN his view of this question. There
ought to be, there must be, industrial
schools all over the South, and we Of
virginia ought to take the matter Tn
heart. There is fine school ut Hamn.
Ion ior the practical training of Young
negroes, but there is no similar school
III virginia comparable to Hampton
scnool lor the training of white boys.
wv, AlIer all, it Is training that counts,
we may talk as much as we please
about the superiority of the wL;to
man, but the skilled mechanic wbother
MS race be white or black, has an nd.
vantage over the man who has had no
training. This is practical age. an
industrial age, and the South is face
10 race with new condition. The
South is no longer exclusively nm oor;.
cultural community. 1t is fast becom-
ing a manufacturing community. and
us greatest need to-day is an abmn-
dance of skilled labor. we have moth.
ing TO say against the training of black
men. The whites cannotif If they would
c,,ose up the school at Tuskegee and
the school at Hampton for the training
OF the negro. But Southerners cannot
AFFORD to sit idly by and see such schools
as these flourish and have no similar
school for the education of the whites.
true, me Mechanics Institute of Rich.
mohd Is dong a splendid work i'm this
direction, but this school is living on q
limited income and 1T must oSerate
within its limited means.
What are virginians going to do
about ltI 1t is a question that thew
must seriously and praverf,Iiv ns