The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
TECHNICAL SCHOOL
 GREATLY NEEDED
Prominent Engineer Discusses
 a Very Important Matter
TRAINED MEN IN DEMAND
w. B. Phillips Accentuates What Is ob vious, Namely, That Birmingham Young Men Should Have
 Technical Education.

W. B. Phillips, mining and metallurgical engineer who for the past five or six years has had charge of the Texas min eral survey has returned to Birmingham, his former home, where he will make his future headquarters.
 Besides conducting the mineral survey in Texas, Mr. Phillips has been engaged in opening quicksilver mines in Brews- ter county, in that state.
 Although by no means unacqualnted with Birmingham's resources, as a sci enlist. he saw before the development of it's mineral wealth. the possibilities that lay open to this district Mr. Phillips nevertheless expressed wonder at the progress made during his absence and prophecies that what has already been done is but sample of the future. There is only one thing, he thinks, that Bir- mingham needs at the present, and that Is d technologieal school. Upon the im- portance of the establishment of such school to much stress, he said could not be laid.
 Discussing the matter, MT. Phillips said yesterday;
 Pressing Demand.
 Birmingham needs and must have technical school, wherein young men may be trained in mining, metallurgy, car pentry and the designing and the practi- cal operation of machinery; in the various applications of electricity; in practical chemistry; civil engineering and the other branches of science which this busy age demands. The chief purpose of such school should be to train men for the practical side of life basing such train ing upon the fundamentals, English, mathematics and the modern languages.
 with the possible exception of Pitts burg there is no place in the entire coun- try where the demands for such a school are more imperative or where the re- suits would be of quicker or more last ing benefit than in Birmingham. The es- tablishment of the Carnegie Technical school in Pittsburg has shown within the last few years what the greatest of the iron masters thinks of the needs of the young men who are to carry on the ever increasing business of the country. | ms SCHOOL IS lO nave d very ldISe endowment placed probably at near $20, 0O0, ,O0O, and it's purpose is to afford an opportunity for thorough training in the practical sciences, both in day and in night schools.
 MT. Carnegie saw that we had already entered upon a new phase of industrial life. wherein the struggle for existence would be keener, and wherein the prizes would fall to the best prepared. It is the age of accurate information swiftly ap- plied-the age of trained men.
 "1t is, of course, beyond dispute that d great deal of the work of the world is carried on by men who have not had the advantages of scientific training, but who have wrought out their own saliva ton. And yet these men are the largest employers of trained men and 1t is but rarely the case that they neglect to send their own sons where they can get such training as was denied them by the force of circumstances Mir. Carnegie is, him self, a striking illustration of this. De- nied the advantages of early training, in the schools, he has shown by his prlncely gifts to the cause of industrial progress, his earnest desire that the young men of today shall have what he had not.