Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-24
BOARD OF TRADE ANNUAL
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three and a half million bales of cot- ton borne to England in the south. weave, knit, the two or three million bales borne to European parts other than in England. It is high time to 1 take up the task of industrial educa- tion. Until we do so, we will be hand l icapped even here at home. and cer- l tainly abroad.
 Skilled Labor.
 Where did, where do we get our high class or skilled labor? Who were the fine carders, spinners, weavers, bleachers. dyers and designers in otlt- CT days. or even now, in New England? :? Who are the skilled and high priced 1aborers in all our large cities? For eigners for the most part. Why? Be- cause our boys have had no education al means to meet their industrial ef- forts. If have seemed to say harsh or ugly things. God knows it was unin- tentional. I want our workers to be the best in the world; but I know that to be, the best they must be aid- ed. Educational efforts of the kind that have contributed so much to the success of others must, cannot. fail to contribute to our success if only we are wise enough to adopt them
 Industrial or Industrial Art Education It will pay to sharply define indus trial art education, so as to keep it from being confused or confounded with normal training or even with industrial training. It is this latter i plus art Every industry has it's art side. Domestic science has it's art side. Besides knowledge. taste is to be attained Besides boiling, baking, or roasting, there is an art of so pre- pairing foods as to have them appear dainty and appetizing. Take the man. ufacturer of jewelry. A boy begins, in Germany ins the industrial school He is taught to draw, to use solder, to use the blowpipe, etc. If his teach 1-&e <J< discovers tendency on the part of the boy to do his work better than others do theirs to draw well to design, the boy is taken from the industrial school and is sent to the art end of it, or to the industrial art school. If his talents show proof that they are extra ordinary, he is sent to Paris, the German government or school author ities paying all .or part of his expenses In this way every manifestation of what is called genius or talent is taken care of. It is prized, --aised and re- warded- Nothing is so much needed of the kind I am advocating I care not what you name vocational or in dustrial. Until we organize and equip them we will never move forward to our proper place. As soon as we do organize and equip them the world will be ours in more senses than it ever was ours or anyone else's.
 Results.
 Among the best results of such schools are the men and women they build up. The copper or coal miner who has been taught the geologic story of coal or copper who is able to read each recurring page as pick or powder explosion reveals it, who has heard the important part played by coal in England and in the worlds industrial and commercial history, pictured or has been told of the work of copper wires in carryin~ the messages of love, of pain, of sorrow. of joy of war, of trade, under the waters over be able to be all the better miner as well as man for the knowledge. He will rise above the clod, he will look up to God. We will not have work ing men and working women, but men and women working Here is where this kind of education pays best
 No War On.
 The old war waged between the classics and sciences has ended. We understand the value and place of incompatihility between commerce and culture. The greatest age of Athens, the so-called age of Pericles, had the Piraeus full of ships behind and sup brought the gold and even the marble to the masters like Phidias and Prox- iteles. Behind the Renaissance of Rome and Florence, behind Angelo, Raphael and Leonardo were Venice. Genoa. Amalh. and the marvellous cit ies of Tuscany, Piedmont and LoTn- bardy, the deep richly laden barges that went up and down the Pc, Adige and Amo, that filled the shins of the seaport cities. The world is wont to think of the poet as a dreamer, one lacking in practical lines of life. But the builder of boats. of -bi- buildings, of great bridges. tunnels. is a dream CT. No man lacking imagination need ever aspire to be a great engineer. The word poet comes from the Greek ooiep to create The builder of the Brooklyn bridge. Roebling. was in my opinion, one of the greatest poets that ever lived. So, too, were the designers and builders of the worlds big steam CTS Stand, as I have stood. on the and throb under the mighty engines, then think of the masters that drew the lines. that laid the keels, that forged the steel, who put in place each rib and rope. look then at the Brook lyn bridge. and mark it's symmetry, the harmony of all it's parts. The builder of this was the Homer of Steel. He went blind long before the last bit of it was built. You remember, Homer, the greatest of Greek poets, was blind. Roebling rode every day to the Brook lyn bridge or was led to a little box like lodge in which he sat listening to the hammers as the workmen toiled. By the shores of Scio's rocky isle his hand in the hand of a boy who acted as his guide, Homer. the blind poet, wandered side by side In all my pictures of the one I place the other. Homer. the Greek. the worlds great master Of song, of words of splendid harmonies; Roeblinr the American engineer, the master of iron and steel, the fashioner of beautiful forms, the poet of steel and iron, in his own way great. The legacies they left are priceless. The one in it's way is as priceless. as full of value, as the other. Culture is not thing of lines or let ters. It is. as Matthew Arnold tells us, spreading sweetness and light. and making Gods will to prevail" Each in his own way Roehliue ard Homer did this; hence my desire to do justice to each. to have others hold them as I hold them, side by side in memory. both benefactors. poets. up- filters, lofty builders for the better day"
 Those in Charge.
 In charge of the successful affair, for which President Tracy received a shower of congratulations, were the