The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-04-01
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1s Literary colleges.
3 Theological institutions.
2 Literary institutions with nor
NAL departments.
! Normal school.
! Medical college,
Normal and industrial college.
] Agricultural and mechanical COL
lego.
IT'S State aided high schools.
Y25 Rural graded schools.
S7s Miscellaneous" public schools
and
l769 small country schools.
Making total Of % colleges and
2b46 public schools. all of which,
with the exception Of 2, are training
nearly 100000 white children annual
ly IN the direction of literary or pro-
fessional pursuits other than indus
trial. Yet per cent. Of our white
population or 6 per cent. of our white
children would furnish more pro-
fessional men and women than
south Carolina probably needs.
We are training industrially about
p per cent. Of our white children.
We are Of necessity largely an
agricultural state, with large indus
trial interests otherwise. Practically
all mercantile and industrial pros
pcrity is based upon agricultural
prosperity. Yet we are leading so
per cent. of our children towards pro-
fessional and mercantile liveli-
hoods.
Clemson and Winthrop colleges
would be forced to more than dou-
BILE their capacity to accommodate 2
per Gent. of our white children.
Thsrefore. they can't ever be ex-
pected to more than supply the ever
increasing demand for teachers and
specialists.
The Farm and Home Extension
work with their county agents can't
hope to reach more, than 10 per cent
ofnthose who need and should have
such industrial training. They can
work only among adults and a very
small per cent of children. To do
more. would require standing army
of agents, and would cost mill
lions OF money. The great masses.
therefore. are consumed for want
of knowledge" ge"-knowledge that can
be apnt into action-productiye ac-
tiSAtS Such knowledge alone is
power. They should have produc-
five knowledge Of the great common
things about them---the resources
lying at their doors and under their
feet Yet we are mentally waking
up NEARLY 100000 white children an
nually to the possibilities of mental
action without knowledge of how
to use such mental powers for such
future citizens. preservation, to say
the least of their prosperity. Even
the negro who constitutes 56 per cent.
OF our population, must also be edu-
Gated industrially If we are to hopc
for efficiency in the future.
Agriculture is science which will
probably not be perfected this side
the millennium, but enough is
known to double our present yields
and to at least halve our present
fertilizer expenses within the next
five years time If practiced. Only
a little is necessary to be known
and practiced to bring about such
results. and that little can be taught
in one year from the sixth to the
seventh grades of our public schools
by the use of Agriculture for School
and Farm" book of 129 pages.
printed and sold at 10c per copy by
the r. l.. Bryan Printing Co., of
Columbia, S. c.
!, This book will give the neces-
sary agricultural science.
2. A small school plat on which
a miniature farm may be run, will
teach the art.
3. Cooperative selling Of the pro-
ducts such as eggs, butter and other
farm products through an agricultural
teacher. will teach the business of
agriculture and lead the future pop
ulation to cooperation which is a
wa.tchword of our future.
1t is being done in fourteen con-
solidated rural schools Of Darlington
county by the employment of only
three expert agricultural teachers
(see free Clemson college bulletin,
"A Rural School Experiment. who
teach agriculture in the class room,
on the school plot, and in the mar
keting of community farm products