Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-26
TEXTILEsCBe0L NEEDED
COTTON MANUFACTURED DIS
CUssEs QUESTION.

BOSTON, April 26-The election of new
members and of officers for the comint
year were the chief items OF bushes.
transacted yesterday by the delegates al
the second days session OF the eighty-sec
ond annual meeting of the National Asso
citation of Cotton Manufacturers in this
city.
William D. Hartshorne of Lawrence was
chosen president Mr.. Hartshorne is agent
OF the Arlington mills.
Charles T. Plunket Of Adams and George
Otis Draper Of Hopedale were elected
vice presidents. and among the directors
elected were William LOTUS of Newark
N. J., and Henry F. Mansfield of Utica,
N. Y, for three years.
Eighty-eight new names were accepted
for membership
Resolutions were adopted opposing the
taxation of college property, in favor of CO.
operation with the growers, to bring the
present railroad causes relative to the
Shipment and transportation of cotton to
the attention of the interstate commerce
commission and indorsing the proposed in
ternatlonal conference at Atlanta in the
fall.
In addition. many important papers were
read. among them being one on The Tex
tl!e School Necessity to the Future of the
industry, by Edward W. France, director
OF the Philadelphia Textile School. G.
Ma S>oH within or WMt1nSNlIIe, gave q
talk on The Within High-speed Comber'
The Proposed System for Cleaning Ma
chlnery was the topic treated by Robert
Schaell1baum of Providence, r. l., while
j: Almirall of New York city spoke on
'Hot-water Heating by Force Circulation"
and Adoiph Suck of Boston spoke on Re
inforced Concrete Construction Especially
Applied to Mill Use
Discussing the textile school in it's re-
lation to the future of the industry. Mr..
France said. in part:
To me textile education means the en-
hodiment of all instruction which may be
practically included in the requirements of
a good, slightly and salable article whether
1t be in cotton, wool worsted or silk.
textile schools should be divided in two
classes - higher and lower schools: the
higher school for the training of those who
aspire to positions of responsibility such
as designers. managers, superintendent,
stylers and statesmen. whereas the work of
lower schools should be devoted to the
training of the man behind the machine,
who must be helped and inspired before
anything like fine or high performance is
to be expected from him.
Technical education, to be effective, must
be of college grade which means that the
men who are to profitably pursue it must
be not less than eighteen or twenty years
old, and must have had the benefit Of
preparatory schooling which has virtually
monopolized their time and energy up to
that age
=, ny u due ScHooi Snoulu De located III
the mill town. however narrow and exclu-
siVe the limitations of educational oppor-
tunity implied by this classification may be-
The technical school. on the other hand
must be a day school, and Should offer
those opportunities for the more liberal
culture and larger educational outlook
which, however. unfortunately are hardly
10 De found except at the great<eenters of
population and enterprise.
II the old methods had continued the
Ola knowledge would have Sufficed Mod
ern methods of manufacture are nothing if
not scientific. and no perfectness of organi-
cation. no specialization of Guties and
powers. no abundance of combined capital
or completeness of cooperation can hope
to succeed except by the ultimation of the
last results of scientific investigation AMI
the application of highly developed taste
for the work"