Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-24


 rnanos. It is wr1tten in one of the most brilliant, fAAcinating and romantic eco homie industrial and couunerc1A sto- ries ever pennea-
 ;. I have no time to tell 1t all Tnar would take weeits instead of hours. The phenornenaI succesx achieved in eiec- fricfty. in chemistry. in nlanufacfures of all kinds from Kenes4sbtrg 70 saiz- burg, from the Vistula ho points Tar empires efforts to put the schools. in- dustrial and industrial- art side Dy side with the empires industries
 Kinds of Industrial Schools.
 Germany has agricultural, horticui- tural, vitieultural schools. She mas schools for boys who are to be piack- smiths. butchers. bakers and cannse- every kind of work. The horseshoer never touches 0 hoof to put on q shoe till he has been taught how to handle that hoof For the boy who is to be horseshoer there is a school in wnicn he is taught all about the horses hooi, the anatomy of it, and of the leg up 70 the knee. He is shown how DO detect the place of the nerve or quick m 1ne I1e normal and in the abnormal hoofs. He is taught the history of the morse rom the time it was a five toed animal down to our day Before the boy enters a shoeing shop he is trained. and well trained. What is true of this line or life is true of all other lines. The plumber has his school. as has me carder, spinner and weaver. The re the empires record in years so recent that the months of the last are with us at this moment.
 As I go up and down the country | listen to men lauding the wonderful work of the republic. Look, say tney' 'at the work of our people" The Ger mans can't show anything to compaTe with it. This is silly. senseless, ,thougnt- saF schools should be the question, put what we would be with them: not what Germany Is or is not with them put what she would be had she not them. I venture to say that kith them tsf world would be ours in a far larger and fairer sense than 1t appeared to Ed- ward Dautes in Monte Crfto, For all that have urged here in behalf of the hOrseShOer or blacksmith holds TOT all line sof life"
 And that it all pays is proven by the lines: Boys who go to work as com mon. laborers advance from s10 a week when 22 to s10.10 when 31. Boys who serve as apprentices advance rom S13.50 when 22 to $15.S0 when 32. Boys who go to a trade school advance From s17 10 $25. while boys trained in the s4S and become the great industrial capt aims These figures are from those of Mir Dodge, for many years presi- dent of the Society of American Eng1.
  time to the careful study of this and other kinds of education
 Our Resources.
 I said that the future ought to be- long to the nation that has the schools plus the raw materials needed in the industries. Except China. ours is the richest land on earth. It is or was our wealth of natural resources, needed by the world, that made possible our pfe- nomenal wealth production. If, in comparison with others. we lead in the production of wealth it is because or our mines. forests and farms. For ex- ample. England bling wealth for 1000 years has only 55 billion, while we have 130: France has only 50, Germany 4b, Russia 35. Austria. including Hungary and Bohemia. only 30 Italy IS or 20. Spain 12. Of the worlds products Tn 19000 we produced 22 of wheat. 20 of sSi1. g If coal, 3S of silver. 34 of man ufactures. 35 of iron. 36 of cattle, 38 of steel. 50 of petroleum. 54 Of copper. 70 of cotton and S4 per cent of corn. This year (1910, unless am much mistaken, the census will show that we are turn ing out half the worlds ireo11. half it's steal and half of it's coal. I wish had time to tell you how wantonly, almost saVagely, we have wasted our minerals, particularly coal, our woods, and worst of all, because most valuable, our soil
 What to Do.
 To make the most of these marvellous possessions we want to go over exten- sive to intensive, from unscfentif5 to scientific. methods of manipulation and production. Where our farms yield IF to 13 bushels per ace of wheat, by ex- Htensive or unscientfiic farming, we could easily get 30. 40 or 50 bushels per acre by intensive or scientific farming.
 What is true of the farms is just as true Of the mines and the forests. We waste We must make haste to learn the largest and best lessons of life's work We want to manufacture the
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