The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-16

d to give the rural districts better school hoiises and better furniture. These matters will be within your prudence
 A1 NormaI schools.
 The Normal Schools founded for the purpose or preparing and fitting teach CTS. have succeeded and expanded be- i yond expectations l VIII call your at schools the teacher for the other I schools is prepared, and 1t is very im- portant that this preparation should be tnoreusn and ns somirsnsarate nsns ra z. with grown their limits and come to you for help. You should thoroughly in- vestlgafe the requirements of these | schools and should meet them in Just schouI for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. |
 rhe Alabama School for the Deaf, | Dumb and Blind at Taliadega. has also outgrown it's bounds and Is asking To. the means of expansion. Quoting from President Johnston's report, their last ! buildings cost $40.oO0, for which they | had an appropriation of s2oooo' leaving | a S2O,CO0 deficit and there is still re- | quired an estimate of 5000 to com | piete the building and heat 1t. Also | tho central building was burned m | 1905. In rebuilding 1t cost s3,600 more | than there was insurance. and that leaves deficit of sa.60o. In other | words, the school owes S23.100 for l buildings more than there were appro-
  inc appropriations was. I understand, | approved by Governor Jelks and the trustees and it becomes your duty to provide tae funds. The president re- about S5.0O0 to repair one of the build ings. and that he wants other money to make Improvements which are en1- bodied in his report The report shows that he Is doing very important work and that the scaool Is credit to the State and merits your liberal consideration.
 Girls IndustriaI schoou.
 The Girls Industrial School at Mon- tevallo. grown to some four hundred pupils. has accomplished and is ac- sompllshing much more than the foun. ders of It dreamed of, and 1t has come 10 you asking tor more expansion. more money, and right here will say 10 you that the fact of its asking for more expansion and more money, is evidence. that 1t is successful. and as long as 1t Is successful, 1t Is your duty to Stand by 1t. It wants more dormi- tories and, more class room. It is be- coming the usage of the state and or sn the occupations of the State in the earning capacity of the family and this school, having for It's purpose the tions. 1t well behooves the State to give them the very best chance 1t can. and would suggest to you the advis- ability of meeting their wants, look
 
 young lady who stenogshphed and wrote this message. a daugn,er ot b Dallas county farmer, Is a graduate Of that school and 1 understand that Birmingham who are. worthily earning their own living and helping in the support of their families.
 The limits of this school have always been tested by the attendance; that of itself constitutes an undeniable de- | mand on you. not on your benevolence.
 but on your duty to provide adequate Agricultural Schools
 The nine agricultural schools, locat- ed, one each ing zthe nine congressional districts, are doing a great work and
 the schools at Abbeville, Henry county. and Alhertvilie, Marshall county, and | was very much impressed with the | magnitude of the successful work they
 were doing and unhesitatingly recon. mend. not only their continuance. but their enlargement
 The money allotted to these schools, s2,5oo year each, Is the least appro- lbenevolence or educational work of the State. They are asking that you in- crease this amount to $Ss00O, making | S4,000 available for academic work, and
 si.00O for farm experiments. I compl- | Inent them on the modesty or the re. quest. and am sure the State could not authorize more economical and profi- l | located in different parts of the State, l generally who're board is cheap, ana | they furnish the boys and girls outside of the cities not only with the moss l economical agricultural lessons, but all
 so with the best substitute Tor nlgh schools. While on this subject, would commend to your careful study
 and consideration the propriety; af the l high schools or their equivalents, in every county of the state. as deem l this one of the most advanced steps we could take towards higher education. Polytechnic Institute.
 The Polytechnic Institute, one of the greatest schools south of the Ohio riv- | CT, has exceeded the expectations Of It's | founders and friends and today,expand- | Is knocking at our doc: TOT more means. more room.
 It is said that this. school and the nine agricultural schools belle their names, that they have not made' farm | CTS, or have made only few farmera. | They have done better than that. they | have fitted the. farmers boys Tor hisn places In the land and they are. fast
 occupying them, and the demand is for 1 more.
 The foundation of these ten great schools has been thirty cents. meaning by that, the tag tax of thirty cents a | ton on fertilizer It Is true that the | first placement of this was on mis- conception of who would pay the cost, l unqueStloHdUly u was SioSS t1A: /, 1t has grown into our system and the l wisdom of It's use cannot be doubted. | This thirty cents has now multiplied | into many thousands of dolfsrs and will | continue to multiply. and should be us- | ed exclusively in the outbuilding and upbuilding of these great Institutions. l Any prejudice against them that comes 1 from the statement that their pupils l either at the beginning or on graduation l do not furnish farmers and developers | of the agriculture of the state, but go | out into other business, 1t is no eriti- cisnl, because no matter what business 1 they go into, they go into 1t with the | foundation of character and learning | imbedded at these schools, and 1t is more than worth the while and cost to | the people, and I would suggest that 1 never again should dollar from this | fund, this thirty cent foundation. l though 1t may swell into hundreds of | thousands of dollars, be diverted from l the great cause to which it was dedi- cIusively applied. If 1t is more than i the Polytechnic Institute and the nine 1 great agricultural schools can use, then l enlarge the institute and found ten more and yet ten more agricultural
 schools as long as the fund will ex- pahd .
 The Polytechnic Institute Is asking 1 $92s, 900, or about S56,00 year for four l years, to erect new buildings and to | properly equip same, and 1t should have i it. will call your attention that the state owes the fertilizer fund quite a | sum of money. which has in previous years been turned into the general | treasury; but aside from tnis tne state | owes 1t to the farmers of the state and l to those who want an agricultural and | technological education to give an ample sufficiency of the general fund, if nec-