Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-20
GOV, ELECT SLATON EULOG|zED
STATE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
Address at Third District Agricultural and Mechanical
School Heard by Large and Interested Audience :
Final Exercises at the School Yesterday.

Women are mostresplendent in their
own sphere, the home, and there they
exercise an influence that men can
not, an influence which even women
cannot exercise anywhere else. Young
ladies of the graduating class, when
Homer sang his most splendid lay and
glorified his ideal woman he drew a
picture of the Queen of Phaecia, cook
ing her husbands dinner and attend
ing to household cares"
Such was part of the glowing trib-
ute paid by Governor-elect John NJ
Slaton to industrial education il
Georgia in his commencement address
delivered yesterday morning before the
graduating class at the Third District
Agricultural and Mechanical school, IN
further speaking of the ideals of mod
ern education toward which the
schools of the state should strive, M.
Slaton said
"One person who had seen a picture
of a sunset painted by Whistler, the
noted artist, complained to the painter:
"'You know you have never seen a
sunset like that!'
Don't you wish you could see it"
Queried the artist in reply"
In his references to the education
of the young men and young women O.:
the state by the schools, especially the
agricultural schools, Mr.. Slaton spoke
clearly and eloquently of the value of
these schools to the commonwealth
Their value cannot be estimated in d
financial way, he said, as their prod,
ucts come forth in the form of charac-
ters fashioned and moulded to make
the men and women of Georgia better
fitted for their duties as citizens oil
the Empire State of the South"
Chairman Walter E. Steed of the
board of trustees of the college, in an
appropriate speech introduced Gov
'ernor-elect Slaton
at must be apparent to any one that
We are trying to make our living a.
home and to board at the same place, :"
said Mr. Steed. After a long time,
Georgia seems to be coming into its
own as regards living at home Hith-
erto the farmers of the state have
only tickled the soil, but now the time
has come when scientific cultivation of
the soil will be general throughout the
state"
For these reasons Mr.. Steed sai1
that he knew of no investment so val
schools.
No man in Georgia, said Mr.. Steed,
had better opportunity of becom-
ing acquainted with the affairs of the
state than Governor-elect Slaton, who
had worked up from the bottom, not
having missed single rung of the
ladder
Governor-elect Slaton was in most
happy mood and introduced his ad-
dress with few witticisms, which i'm
mediately caught the attention of the
audience He referred to the value of
education to the state, and he said
that no hardships and deprivations are
too great if they will secure a worthy
education.
Preparedness is the basis of success
in every conflict, said Mr.. Slaton, illus
trating this point vividly by reference
to the speedy conquest of France Dy
the Germans under Won Molke il
the Franco-Prussian war. To-day
however, thought and not force is the
ruler of the world The march OF
science is emancipating mankind from
disease, and the myriad ills that beset
the human family"
Governor Slaton made direct refer
ence to the teacher and his value tc
the state. THE greatest factor of to.