Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-25
4 Timely "T;;b'' to Georgia On
Industrial Prosber;tu
r one of his highly interesting stories of
the Greater Georgia Techs industrial


tour The Journals managing editor, Mr.
John Paschall, tells of an Eastern idea that
would be quite adaptable and peculiarly
worth while to the Empire commonwealth
of the South. 1t is in the Mellon Institute at
Pittsburgh that this conception of bringing
science and EDUCATION directly into the SER
vice of business, and Of bringing business
directly into the service of science and edu-
cation, has been so happily worked out. While
This institution has a liberal endowment that
takes care of it's overhead expenses, the
greater part of its operations, we are told,
is financed by business interests through
the founding of fellowships for the study of
their own practical problems and opportuni-
ties. For instance:
est was a surprise to many of the
Georgia men to learn that the largest
baking company in this country has
been financing a fellowship in Mellon
since 1911 to learn everything there is
to know about bread and bread-making
1t was also surprising that although
students, working under the fellowship,
have made enough discoveries to save
this one company several hundred thou
sand dollars year in yeast and sugar,
the fellowship is still maintained with
the evidently confident purpose of find
ing out very much more than is now
known about the supposedly simple pro-
ross of bread-making. What has been
done for this me industry has been done
for many others"
Need it be argued that just such a system
research is needed for the due develop
3i,t Of this States industrial resources and
Aat the Georgia School Of Technology is
st the place for its establishment? Far
GIFTED, public-spirited men of means could
> the commonwealth no sounder service
han to endow a department for this pur-
rose at the Georgia Tech so that keen
minds equipped with the methods and i'm
elements of science, might be constantly
bent upon discovery, upon invention and up
on the practical questions Of shop and mill
and mine. Nor could industrial corporations
make a sounder investment f : themselves.
as well as for the State, than to endow at
the Tech fellowships similar to those at the
famous Pittsburgh institute. If the enter
prise has saved Eastern concerns hundreds OF
thousands of dollars and also enabled them
greatly to increase their producing and earn
ing power, will it not do as much for those
of this region? If it has brought to light new
elements of wealth and progress in the in
tensively cultivated fields of Pennsylvania in
dustry, will it not do even more for the
largely latent resources of Georgia and the
South?
Whoever knows the history of Georgia's
industrial expansion knows that the Tech
has been a major force in that wealth
creating, weaIth-conserving process. TO the
scientific power and engineering skill which
this institution has developed, more perhaps
than to any other single factor, must be as
eribed the States remarkable growth In
manufactures and in the prosperity which
they bring. No longer, as aforetime, are
Georgia products sold almost entirely as raw
materials to be wrought into finished goods
by far distant hands and machines; but to
a considerable extent Tin some instances, IN
deed to a great extent) are converted into
fabrics and wares here at home. The result
is that millions of profits which formerly
went to other regions as the rightful reward
of Industrial skill are now earned in Geor-
gia and are retained for the further up
building of her material interests But the
Techs constructive work in these matters
e has just begun. It's serviceableness thus rar:
great as it is, mas been sorely handicapped
by lack of endowment funds. Let the ous1-
ness and industrial leadership of Georgia
muster to the enlargement OF this lnstitu-
ton. and there is no calculating the good IL
can do. the progress it can inspire, the pros
~erity it can unfold. The Journal commends
10 research idea of the Mellon Institute 10
re earnest consideration of Georgians, and
,,-n!s that appropriate action soon Will De