The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-31
POWELL TALKS 0F SCHOOL AT RAGLAND Will Ultimately Require S5,-
 100000 Outlay BUILD TT GRADUALLY State Senator Wattt Brown Is Much Gratified at Decision to Locate
 the Industrial School in
 His Home Town
BUILD TT GRADUALLY

After attending the meeting of the Southedn Bureau of Education at Nash vile. at which meeting it was pro- posed to locate a s5,0OO,OOO school at Ragland. Rev. W. l. Powell, secretary of the bureau; State Senator Watt Brown of Ragland and others interested returned to Birmingham yesterday
 Mir Powell, who has been deeply in terested in locating the school in this state, was very much elated yesterday over the fact that a site had been se- cured for the school. In speaking of the situation he said:
 We do not propose to spend s5.- 100000 at once in the building and the endowment of this school That sum may be distributed over a period of 20 years as from time to time sub scriptions are made to the school. We time to build the school but in the course of time the great institution will be located a Ragland
 It Is easier to build a large school now than it is to do any small work, so we decided that $5,000, ,000 was about the right figure for the Ragland school.
 "This fall We anticipate that active work will be started to secure subscrip- tions to the endowment. We have as surances from some very wealthy men that the school will be taken care of. This organization will stay behind the project until 1t is completed. We hope to build unit by unit of the training school for boys and girls. As this country develops We hope the school to be located at Ragland will also de- velop.
 We have assurances from the citizens of Ragland and that community that sufficient lands will be donated to suit ably care for the buildings we antici pate will be erected.
 '.The bureau arranging this school has several small educa tional schools under it's care in Tennessee and we have made a success of them. Very prominent men are connected with the bureau"
 It Is understood that the school to be started may be finally operated in connection with the state technical and agricultural school located at Rag land by the state recently. That in sitration will cost So,000 and will have state aid of 5000 per year.
 Senator Watt Brown, who has been actively interested in the school. passed through here yesterday en route 10 his home in Ragland He secured the aid of the Seaboard Air Line manage ment in the fight, waged for Ragland and. although the Southern Railway boosted other locations, the fight was won for Ragland.
 Senator Brown. who secured the state lature, said he was very much grati- fled over the selection, as 1t was one of the largest propositions that had ever been handled for this state in educa- stional fines
 'I am deeply gratified over the re- suit" said Senator Brown. "I am told that the school will be handled as quickly as possible by this earnest or ganization of gentlemen who have se- lected Ragland as the locatin. The members of that orga nizatio are wide
 
 ble.
 Ut will require some time to work out this proposition in all it's details. but l anticipate that every feature will rebound to the benefit of this state. There may be arranged a plan at some future time whereby the state school will be opera ted in connection with the school"
 Dr. Phillips Views
 That a trades school was Alabama s greatest economic need and that he hoped that the promise made by the Southern Bureau of Education to Ragland as to locating a s5.0Oo.o00 trades school there would materialize was the statement of pr. J. H. Phillips. superintendent of schools here, and of the south's best known educators.
 "The promise made to Ragland," said Dr. Phillips, "Is one of the greatest things educationally made in some time. All that we can do is to cooperate heartily in the realization of that prom ise. l sincerely trust that the gentle men making this promise may be able to realize to the fullest their great ambi- ton.
 "Alabamas greatest economic need is trades school, and l hope this one may l.1 cs-f, ,1