The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1914-07-16

among the many arguments made
against it, none were stronger ana
had better or more Understandable
p2ints than those contained in the
following letter written by Lieu
tenant-Governor Barrett. in which
he gives his reason for the vote
he cast, which decided the final
issue:
Hon. Thos. W. Fuller,
Minden, La.
My Dear Mr.. Fuller: | am
lust in receipt Of your kind letter
in which you express regret at my
vote in deciding the supposed tie
on the Price bill providing for
school Of pedagogy at the Rustcn
and Lafayette Industrial Institutes.
''As co-operated in the estab-
lishment Of the school at Roston
and was largely responsible ter
1.-The creation Of tie one at La
favette. and have worked unceas-
molly for the upbullding Of both
for the past twenty years, l hardly
think my loyalty and devotion 10
them can be justly questioned.
During sixteen OF those years /
was on the Senate Finance Com
mittee and always stood for the
largest possible appropriation Tor
their development, and they have
ever had my earnest solicltude and
assistance.
THE acts creating them pro
vide distinctly for the industrial
training of the youths of oul
State. Neither act could have
been passed if they had contained
|
provision for the normal work
that is normal department, science
| of teaching and practice school
r That particular mission was as
signed to the school at Natchito
ches, which was created anterlo
to either.
: 1.-The higher educational worI
I; of the State is designed to be har
: monious and autonomous. To it
9 different schools is assigned par
Y ticular and specific curricula o
: work: including the University q
Baton Rouge they cover the entlr
State GO raphically. Save tn
ter, all are young hardly es
Itai.listed. aEaisass1l have ful
equipment 81 adga 8ate plant {
! carry on the specific work origl
! nally designed.
The Natchitoches Normal
created in 1862, provided specials.
: for the thorough instruction an
f training in the history and scienc
!. of education, and the theory an
n practice Of teaching, etc.
5 The Industrial at RustOn i
= 1894, and the Institute at Lafa
yette in 1898, specially provide
for the establishment of first elias
D industrial institutes and college
i for education in the arts an
: sciences, instructions in telegra
| ply. stenography, photography
e drawing, painting, designing an
: engraving in their industrial ap
DIication; also a knowledge 0
= bookkeeping, agrit ultural ant
r mechanical art, together with sucI
/, other practical industries as iron
e time to time may be suggested t
them by experience, such as vii
tend to prepare children for tn
{ practical industries of the age.
s THE scoop of the work lai
!, down for the two industrial school
is broad, but it especially elimi
. mates the normal department, th
\ science of teaching, and the prac
d tice school, while the act creatin'
I the Normal does not include tn
right to teach agricultural an,
mechanical and Industrial arts.
why not amend the origlna
acts of these industrial schools, 0
! apply to the State Board of Edu
cation and ask the Legislature TO
money and equipment, to instruc
them in textile work, and why no
broaden their instructions in tn,
agricultural work! Without goot
, farmers and the successful cult
walton of the soil, the school,
, would perish from the earth, ant
the teachers would not be needed
Only few moments before
. was called upon to decide the ii,
: /. had seen seventy thousand dol
lars stricken from the appropria
: ton for the Natchltoches Normal