Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-24

and veins. The makers of our text
books have seemed to shy at usetul
facts like a new horse at a road en-
CINE. We have taught men who were
to be farmers all about Greek roots
and Latin roots, and nothing about
corn roots and cotton roots. We have
spent our time learning about the
construction Of third century
chariot only to get run over by
twentieth century automobile.
This Is what all our educauonal
leaders are now beginning to see, ana
the changed spirit Of the schools, car
rying new inspiration and knowledge
into every line of human industry,
making an art Of what once was
drudgery, Is going to give Zest and
fruitfulness to labor these next twenty
years such as the world has never
known before. / do not think II 100
much to say that in the next twenty
five years we shall increase the use
fulness Of our schools tentoid' tha'
in promoting the efficiency OF the peo-
pie the school will be ten times as I'LL
portant a factor as now.
In other words, much as education
has meant to the prosperity Of peo-
pie until now, the new education Is
going to mean tenfold more, and the
Carolinas should make haste to lead
all other states in taking advantage OF
this great energy-giving Impulse: we
have made great advances In educa-
tion, and yet the best thing the caro-
linas could do in 1910, the best nnan-
cial investment her people could make
would be to double this school eXpen-
diture. Considered simply as proft-
able place to put money, II would pay
the man who has land, the man VINO
has capital. the man who has sclen,
tific knowledge or Industrial skill, anu
the man who lives by his muscle. For
the prosperity of all Is measured py
the intelligence and efficiency OF our
average man.
And not only the schools, but all
other agencies that are educating the
people to a higher degree OF EN-
cheney, deserve our support just IN
proportion to the extent and thor-
oughness Of their work.
First of all then, in raising the efn.
cheney of our average man, we neeo
always and everywhere to help Tor
ward the cause of education for the
deyelopment Of our own people; ana
in the next place, we ought TO en-
courage the immigration OF progress
sive and enterprising men and women
from other sections.
While the great basic prlnclPle
upon which we must build Is that the
prosperity of every industry ana every
Individual Is measured by the intelli-
gence and efficiency Of the average
man with whom we have to deal, we
need also to emember-simply as a
modifying factor-that up to a point
of density which we III the south shall
not reach for centuries yet, prosperi-
ty will be enhanced by increasing the
number Of intelligent and efficient
people per square mile. There Is
point Of diminishing returns but
we are in no danger Of reaching 1t.
AS It Is, both Carolinas need and must
have a larger proportion or Whlte
people. The whole south Is still too
sparsely settled. Our eleven southern
states. excluding Texas, support only
16 .OOO, 900 people Of both races. ana
only 100000 white people, wnlle
the same area in Europe supports
over 100, 100000 white people.
OF course we do not want the lower
class European immigration. If we
can get immigration from England,
Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland,
Sweden. etc.-the countries whose
blood has gone to make up our Wig
orous American stock-it would be
of great help to us. We are all OF us
such immigrants ourselves or descend
ants of such immigrants. From some
countries of southern and eastern
Europe, on the other hand, immi-
grafton is Of a decidedly lower order
and Objectionable because of low
standard of intelligence and etn-
cheney.
On the very same principle, howev-
er. immigration of a normal or high
standard Of intelligence and eft1ciency
is desirable Such immigration can
be had, and ought to be had-in some
measure perhaps from our Engl1sh,
Scotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk
across the sea-but chiefly from our
northern and western states. For
years now hundreds Of thousands OF
the most enterprising and progressive
farmers in the middle west have been
going into Canada with its long hard
winters and bitter climate, not only
giving up American citizenship but
actually paying two to three times as
much for land in that inhospitable
region as land of the same fertility
commands in the south. We ought
to have brought these men to the
south They know our institutions,
our language, they are industrious.
thrifty, wide-awake, and many or
them are of southern ancestry who
should naturally come back home
Let's bring them back.
II there were no other reason Tor
advocating such immigration from the