Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-04

| famous as hog producing state.
The value OF our hogs has inCreaS-
ed in the same time from $5,429.-
016.00 to $53.252, 100000. or by $50
per cent. Is this also an accident?
No. 1t represents the rewards which
have come through SIillful leader
ship, whereby purebred animals have
I been introduced and scattered
| throughout the length and breadth
OF the state, whereby thousands or
| boys have been taught 10 raise hogs
economically. and whereby the hith-
ertO all-COttOn farmer has been led
to understand and appreciate that
there are other crops than cot
ION which he may protttably culti-
vate
Including our animal products, it
| is undoubtedly true that our cot
ton crop. even in this year of the
highest prices which have been wit
messed for half 2 century, still
represents less than half of the new
wealth we produced last year. A few
years since this was not true. show
inc the internal revolution which
has taken place in our agriculture
and which it is safe to say has been
brought about largely through the
efforts of this institution.
If hog cholera serum had not been
discovered, manufactured and dis
tTibuted in Georgia at cost, and if
our people had not been taught how
to use it so as to check the raVages
of this disease, it is hardly likely
that our hog industry would have at
tanned any such proportions as it now
represents. But before the efforts to
teach diVersiticatiOn through the
agency of corn, canning and pig clubs
it is doubtful if King Cotton" would
have had been dethrOned in the sec
Ond cotton growing state of the I'm
Tins that leadership is
after all the essential factor in our
welfare and advancement. 1t will be
more important in the future than
ever before because those who are &C
Quainted with the fundamental facts
understand and realize that we are
still just in the shadows of the ocean
of knowledge and that science is to
play more important part than ever
in the future peace and prosperity Of
the human race.
mechanic arts were founded to es
tabliSh and to advance instruction
and research in all the branches re-
lating to their highly specified field.
1t will ever be the privilege of these
institutions, if they are true to their
best ideals, to lead the vanguard of
the fight which science must ever
wage against nature in order that the
essential facts on which progress is
based may be discovered and made
practical and so capable of utiliZa-
ton with sufficient rapidity to uni
formly promote the progress of man.
kind.
In this connection permit me to
say that in one sense we have beaten
Germany. From some points of view
she is humbled in the dust. On the
other hand, she does not feel that she
is beaten. She still retails within her
borders many valuable scientific Sc
crets. She still has unimpaired her
institutions of learninf and many of
the saVants through the agency of
whose creative minds she was able
to bring a great part of the world I'M
der tribute. For the moment we have
asserted our leadership. The great
question is, shall we keep it?
Unless We are prepared to endOW
education as never before in our his
tory, unless we are prepared to pro-
vide ourselves with an eVer-incTeaS-
ing army of trained experts, we will
lose that which we have spent so
much blood and treasure to attain.
The future of our country, therefore,
hangs in the balance. In the next
twenty-five years we will determine
the position she is to occupy in the
world, and will not be brought about
by simply beating our swords into
ploWshares, but through the general
education of the masses of our peO-
pie, through the liberal maintenance
of institutions of higher learning,
and through the support and encour-
agement of research on a scale such
as has never been undertaken be-
fore.
l take it that every true citizen of
the United States feels that there has
been given into our charge an in
ternational trust and a duty and re-
sponsibility SURPRISING that which
has ever previously been placed in
the charge of any other nation. If
this be true, it is absolutely neces-
sary that we retain the dominant
leadership in arts, agriculture and in
dustries which has recently come into
our hands. In the language of the
immortals who died for liberty, we