The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-01

North Carolina, as representing the aver
age of the Southern States.
1t was shown that only SO cents per
capita was paid out for the cause of edu-
cation in North Carolina.
| Massachusetts cultivates brains ana
grows rich; we cultivate acres and stay
poor
A strong plea was made for education
in all it's branches, for the establishment
of schools for the various industries.
Technical education, the speaker main
tanned had enabled the great countries
of Europe to accomplish the wonderIol
, things they have done, England to be-
com the money lender of the world Ger
MANY to support it's double system OF
government, and France to pay OH us
tremendous war debt and still hold her
own with the great powers, ana tie
manufacturing States of our country 10
compete successfully with foreign pro-
ducts.
Mr.. j. P. TURNER.
The third speaker was Mr.. j. T. FUR
ner, of Norwood, whose subject was, AN
Industrial Forecast for North Carolina.
In very humorous and well-wordcd
introduction. the speaker outlined the
two forces that are made against our
industrial progress, namely, pesSlmlsm
and the feeling that in everything IN
North Carolina is the finest in the world.
1t was very instructive, he sale, to
, enumerate some of the means of indus
trial progress not given to North Caro-
lima, for instance, mining resources, good
harbors, and vast cotton and wheat lands,
such as are possessed by Texas and
Manitoba.
Then, on the other hand some OF
North Carolina rich and natural endow-
ments were enumerated. Conspicuous
among these was the vast water power
in this State There is scattered along
the rivers of North Carolina utiliZable
/, water power to the extent of $500, $50
horse power. This is not centralized, but
scattered so as best to fall in with in
dividual effort, and stand pat with our
to the raw material.
At first, the people, with their ideas
of developing, had revolted at the idea
of trade, but by degrees this feeling had
passed off. The wonderful growth of the
cotton milling industry in the State was
shown by some startling statistics.
AS to what was being done to further
this great industry, the textile school in
our own city and the establishment of
great electric power plants in various
localities, notably on the Neuse and the
Yadkin rivers, were taken as instances.
MR. ]. L. PARKER.
The last speaker, and as it turned out,
the prize winner, was Mr.. ]. l.. Parker, of
Sampson county
orl<O hU
adjustment that had been necessary in
everyone of the successive steps of man
kind, and notably in the great change
from work by hand to work by machin-
cry. Illustrative of this the improved
, methods of handling crude oil We're
shown, the new processes introduced by
the cotton gin, the cotton mills, and in
fact in all the branches of industrial eff
fort
The men thrown out of work by the
use of machinery had to adopt them
selves to new conditions. The output
became very much greater, and this
transportation grew at a tremendous
rate, thus giving employment to thous-
, ands.
, Each year the machines, by improve
ment, are growing more and more skill
ed, and the skilled workers are becom-
ing gradually displaced as the unskil-
ed laborers were turned out in the first
place. The question is, what is TO be-
come of these skilled laborers.
The answer is two-fold. Some will
train themselves and their children TO
become engineers so that they may con-
troll and build this new machinery
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as bookkeeping, or, if their advantages