The journal and the Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1913-1920, 1917-02-02
Il textile
MOL PRAISED
]. M'sWA|h
Grsnviile Attorney Said
That Much Was Revealed
[ Him by His Recent In

y :.
~ zrc2nvipe. is very much i'm.
pT< With the Textile Industrial
Nm te - the result OF his thorouyh
lnB9on during December. while
arde much OF the school and
waS tz5edg IN synpathy with the
nok' Sybared for such Z fevelation as
waS }nade to me when the whole pro-
5eCt4w1th Its spirit and soul was re-
veaItd by personal INSPECTION" said
Mr.'McSwain.
Continuing. Mr.. McSwain said in
his contribution to the Southern
CpnSistta advocate:
!. \ marvellous fact about the
411hAt It furnishes education,
au4 4ct0f Observation-Disclosures those
bo$ef4o4 uffis who most need it. Our
ernwutpeopIe who are prepared for
Ordinary college have already good
Enetasn eouoation- The college edu-
cation 10 partly vocational but main
~ cultural. This school at Spartan
burg. however, Is engaged in furnish
ing the elements of an English edu-
oaxton.~tos grown boys and girls who
have had no chance at schooling.
Grown men and women have gone to
that echooi who could barely pass the
examination OF the first grade. and
by working a week to pay for board,
and by studying the next week, they
have made from two to five grades
each year and in the course of two or
three years have obtained a fairly
good English education, and in some
cases have entered colleges.
This question was asked OF all G5
orf7O students in my presence: How
many of you would be in school il
&c. were not IN the Textile Industrial
lnstitute?' Not one stated that he
or she would be. OF course a grown
hnu rvtr I'll
our ordinary graded school and FUR
therRose. they have no means of liv.
G8 while going to a graded school
without going into the details,
ssn constrained to say that this pro-
tect by Brother Camak Is the most
Harveious educational scheme that
Ave ever known or heard Of South
Oerolina. and especially the Piedmont
sSction. where there are SO many cot
tn mills, needs such school where
these young men and women are
trained for. leadership In social work
y tho mill communities where they
~eyentually live. The mill people
a4 jealous OF any leadership other
In anhpnS their own people. That
Unnatural stnoe such Is the case with
to farmers, tho lawyers and doctors
MEh trade. business or profession
nJuraiiy wants Its own leaders. This
s&hool is actually furnishing educa-
UYu 70 lHc dtIlOltlOuS DOyS ana girls
vho are bound to be leaders OF COM
.Runity life In mill villages. The best
WET Of any state is ita ambitious
kRT %Slld be a great thing IL there
Yfe D, d. Camak conducting such
a. school as this In Greenville, Ander-
son, Union and Columbia. and hope
that sonie men may be raised up with
the soul. mind and spirit to start
similar schools in these towns. There
LEI room for such work and a CRYING
nSed for education among these peo
pSs. learned today that SO ambi-
tNus nnef In and around the city of
Geenvtle are studying at night and
" pAyfl8 their own tuition In the In
teraational Correspondence schools.
We know Of hundreds who are in
higi schools. These people are hun
ssT for education, but the ordinary
grsAed school and mill school does
not NIL the demand. or course. they
arc doing oil they can. but we need
ueP schools of the 'Camak' kind
Fnnkly, I must say that the Textile
Industrial Institute, to my mind. is
tn greatest home missionary project
IN 6ouk 'C4irolina. Let any one in
dtubt zee. and be convinced"