Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-03

Ol HIS lllt lOCdllOu ol lllt oCilOOl ueI C. A. B. Banks was the spokesman for , the Fordyce delegation and offered many good reasons why the agricul- , tural school should go to Fordyce. Judge Sorrells declared that it was the intention of the trustees to be absolutely fair and impartial in se- lecting the site and that the school would be given to the town or city ' offering the best inducements and facilities for such an institution. Dr. Caldwell presented a communi- cation to the Board in which he stated that the Board of Trade had | referred to it's committee on public works the matter of seeking the To- ! cation of the agricultural school. Circumstances, over which the com it from preparing a bid to submit to the trustees at it's first meeting. pr. Caldwell wrote that the directors of the Board of Trade were anxious to secure tn elocation of the school here not merely for selfish reasons, but in the belief that Pine Bluff would af- ford the school the best facilities for successful work, is most easy of ac- cess, centrally located and furnishes the best variety of soils of the best kind and in every way would be an ideal location for such a school. Dr. i Caldwell asked for further time in which to submit the bid of Pine Bluff and after the meeting it was an- nounced that the trustees would per- init any of the towns to submit addi- tiona1 bids or add to the bids already presented.
 In urging the trustees to locate the school at Fordyee, Mir. Banks con- tended that his town offered the best of everything suitable for such an institution. The land around For dyce, he said, was the average land and that it would give the students of the school an opportunity to ex- pertinent and be successful in farm ing on average land, while the poor and rich lands would not be so ac- ceptable to them.He argued that For dyce was a moral town, strictly temperance town and that because ,f this fact the students of the school would not be surrounded by tempta- tions or immortality. "Fordyce, said MT. Banks, "is the best character build ing town in the State of Arkansas to- day"
 The people of Fordyce want the school and will take an interest in it. Our section is almost wholly in habited with white farmers, said MT. Banks. We are not making a fight on the negro" he continued, but we believe that the associations will prove beneficial and valuable to the average boy.
 He dwealt at length on the en- dorsement given Fordyce in the con
 test for the school by the Farmers
 Union and referred to the contention that Fordyce was just as anxious to get the school and make it big sue cess as any other town.
 Dr. Caldwell, in presenting the
 claims of Pine Bluff, declared that MT. Banks had made a questionable
 argument; that after Pine Bluff he
 favored Fordyce as the location for
 little town merited encouragement
 in it's efforts to develop itself He said, however, that places ought not to be contrasted as to morals. He |, said the school is to be located out
 side of city or town and that the moral effects of any town would have little or no effect on their accomp- lishments.
 } Dr. Caldwell said that the stu , dents of the institution ought to be considered. too. He believes in plac- } ing a boy face to face with the world , and the prospective students of ar agricultural school should be giver every opportunity to prepare himsel , for the industrial as we'll as the az ricultural world.
 } Fordyce, he said expects to be z } big town some day and if it grows to the proportions predicted for it Dr. Caldwell said MT. Banks argu ment would not be we'll taken, as i would offer a possibility of interes in the school eventually being lost il a big city, as MT. Banks said migh occur if the school was located in ; town as large as Little Rock or For Smith.