The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-19

N the "Greater Georgld pdhquS' | NP71 in Atlanta Tuesday night Presi-
 dent Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway company made an ad- dress at once thoughtful, practical and luminous. After telling of the pride he felt in being a Georgian and discussing the Greater Georgia idea, MT. Spencer said:
 The great future of Georgia, whatever we may feel about 1t now, is not really to be worked out by the men who are here, it is to be worked out by our successors and a great deal depends upon how those who are to follow us are in structed as to the methods that they are to pursue or the objects which they are to seek, and the means by which they are to seek them. Therefore. if I were called upon to do. and it is a question of which I have thought greal deal, if were called upon to say what is the sin gle, most important thing for the state of Georgia and for the south, looking to that advancement which she ought to make it would be in the proper education of the young men who are to follow those who are assembled tonight.
 Now, what do I mean by that? I want to emphasize that 1t is not the mere edu- cation, as we are accustomed to think of it in a superficial way; 1t is not the mere attending of a primary school 1t Is not the mere attending of a high school; it is not the mere entrance into a college and | the graduation with a diploma. We are living as l said in the beginning in an age of industry, and America has just stepped to the front as the leading indus | trial government of the world And the south has within the past decade made the greatest steps of any section of your great America.
 Now, felicitate and congratulate our selves as we please as to the progress | which we have made, as to what we have l achieved, the fact remains, and l chal- lenge any question of it, that we today are not prepared for that industrial situation which is upon us. We lack today through out this country, particularly throughout the south, that is growing in industry more rapidly relatively than any other section, the young men who are to take the helm. l mean not the young man who is courageously willing to take 1t, who in his self-confdence is equal to have it, but I mean the man who is really ready, the man who is prepared, the man who knows the thing which he going to at tempt to do.
 It is the making of that man that is the problem before you. We are behind with him. he is not here in the numbers in which he should exist; he is not worthy; he is not the right kind of ar ticle; you can make the improvement. He must be made of the bone and sinew that Is here; he must be made of the young men who are coming up in your own community, the children in your homes. Now, how will you do it? It must be done by careful training of his faculties and his energies for the pecu- liar work that Is before him. Not down in the old curriculum, not down in the old provincial way of so many years in such ar , such a college; it must be done by teaching him to do, trainfs him for the particular work that he ( to follow By doing that I am net deprecating in any way the higher education. There Is a trite saying of a distinguished states man of America that there Is always room at the top; there always will be, and there are plenty ( tops for those who have the leisure and the ambition. I am speaking of what this country needs today it needs bone and snew in the working army that must carry on the industrial problem hat is before us. Therefore my suggestion to you all is to think of that subject; think in your own commercial meetings, your own in- dustrial associations. What are we going to do to run these factories that are growing in size, growing in numbers; what are we going to do with other classes of manufactures, your mining, your smeltng, your rolling mills and your furnaces? What are you going to do for the men who run your railroads, aggregations of capital and for the ag- aggregations of labor in one enterprise or another that Is growing every day, and all that may be said of those tremendous, gigantic combinations that are being made and the questions that are being raised-what will be the outcome of them? I ask you to mark tonight that predict that the limit to the size of these combinations at last is in the body. the size and the capacity of the men that are on hand to manage them.
 Now you and your associations can shape that quantity. It Is a larger quan- tity than your mere discussions of your profits on your sales of your goods-that is individual effort that at last is seek ing money for the individual-but if your associations are properly conducted, mean conducted for the best results, you will find that there are supplemental questions arising in your discussions as to what your community as a whole shall do, not as to where the individual can make a few dollars profit: and away down at the foundation of it, as l said be- fore, is the educstion of the men who are coming on. These are the men that are not only to lead your industries, they are the men that are to shape your public sentiment. They are the men who are not only to run your factories, own these mines and these furnaces, but they are the men who are to shape your lives with reference to the industrial situation around you You are not in an age of making laws. you are not forming states, you are not founding republic. that ]; a century behind you. You are developing a great country. You are governing country that Is branching out in it's trade to the world. It cannot sustain itself in every particular in the outside world in