The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-23
Magnificent Appeal By
 Auburn's President.
STIRRING SPEECH BY DAVE
Delivered at Annual Banquet of
 Commercial Club.
~Thc Can of Today Co-operation" fs Subject of Farewell Address of Managing Director of Southern Commercial
 Congress.

What was considered to be ths most instructive and interesting evening ever spent by the business men of Montgomery was that of last night at the annual banquet of the Commercial Club. Two of the speeches that mark cd the evening were those of Mana ing Director Dave of the Southern Commercial Congress, and President Thach of the Alabama Polytechnical Institute.
 pr. Thach spoke first. his subject being manual training for the boys of the South. Dr. Thach was schedul- cd to speak confining the subject to Montgomery's individual needs in that line. but preferred to apply the lesson of the need to a broader field He said:
 T wish ito express my thanks and appreciation for the privilege of be- ing here with you men of Montgomery tonight. to bel with you men who are doing such a great work for the great movement of the Southern Commercial Congress
 "Every sphere of higher work is rep resented here tonight, and want to speak to you of another class of work which is now of paramount interest and vital importance to the South. want to call the attention of you men to the necessity for instruction in manual work to the growing boys. If you take hold of the question and give 1t the impetus it deserves and that you are capable of giving 1t. I believe If you get to work on 1t. there will be such a revival in prosperity, such vigor given to development. that the results are too vast to be seen.
 "Get the big men interested. not the takers. get the tax payers, the A nf cix tinn the w0rkinR class. the people who get results. who acquire get these interested and at work and half the work is done.
 There Is a great family of colleges like Auburs. the first istitutions to break from the kid-Elove regime ana think of higher practical work Tor me decendants of aristocrats. The deS has nassed when hands soiled in honest work are considered disgrace we are living in an age of broader more comprehensive view. IL IS ths men of the practical schools lwho are accomplishing things. These schools revolutionized what thirty years aso was recognized as modern noerai education. They taught how to do things intelligently with the hands. governed by a well trained head. and also kept pace with the classics.
 .sThe technical colleges or today turn out brevet-captains or industry' men who can step from the school m 10 A high subordinate position ana Tn e few years assume control or ihstitu- lions. The schools of applied science nre responsible for the magnitude or the progress of today.
 Teach Manuel Labor.
 Now we are on the verge or an other revolution, one equally as large as the Polytechnic Revolution. 1t IS the teaching to boys who are Just en- tering the schools. how to use their hands It is one of the greatest strides pf civilization and will work for moral bettermeut as well as for other ad- vancement. for the boy will be able to go to work and earn living with his hands instead of with his wit tho wits that in so many cases, have led to the fall of life.
 The trade schools. IS they are call ed abroad, have been in existenee fol many years In America we had the apprentice system. but that today ii