A PLEA FOR THE BOYS
WHO WEAVE THE CLOTH
Editor Fort Mill Times.
Fort Mill has a pood graded school,
excellent teachers, a modern, up-todate
buildinp. These show that the [
b'coool has the support and approval of
the patrons. Also that these parents
are interested and workinp for the fu- j
ture welfare of their children.
The traininp these children receive;
and the studies they pursue are of vita! 1
-interest to their prepress in future j
years. Within ten to fifteen years the;
boys of today will be takinp th? ir j
places at the helm, developing and pro-!
ducing the wealth of our community
and State.
Thought should be given to the kind j
of training that will be needed when .
the responsibilities and opportunities of
life lie before them. Will it enable!
them to take hold with a sure and '
steady hand the duties before them?
No one, of course, can tell what j
each particular child will do in after >
years, but it is reasonably certain ,
that the majority will be following in
the foot-prints of their parents. Seme
will 1 e in business or professions, some
farmers and some faetorymen.
The school at present is well equipped
for preparing those th: t can at- j
tend college, enter a profession or business.
It also has, I believe, some few '
studies adapted to the ones who later |
may prefer the farm. But the school j
at present has no special studies suited !
to the needs of those who will work in i
the factory. Since the majority of the
children of school age live at the facto-'
ries, we should adjust the courses of j
studies to satisfy their requirements,
studies that will be of service to them
in later life.
The textile industry is fast becoming
the predominating industry in the Piedmont
section of the State. It will always
be the one of most importance in
our town. Then what is clone to develop
and better the opportunities of the
factory employees develops an i betters
Fort Mill.
We need more intelligent boys from
the factory to pursue textile courses at
the best textile schools so that the
mills of this section would weave the
finer grades of cotton goods as done in
New England today. If the elementary
principles 01 me texuie studies were
learned at school by the factory boys,
they would take more interest and
pride in their daily duties, and numbers
of them would master the advanced
textile courses at the Institutes of
Technology. The factory children do
not attend as they should, you say.
After the fifth or sixth grade the
school is not developed along lines to
benefit them. They learn more along
their line in the mill working. What
will it profit him to prepare for a classical
course in college which he
knows he cannot pursue? The boy from
the factory knows that what he needs
to learn are studies that will enable
him to make either more cloth or a '
finer or better grade.
1 feel sure that if such textile studies i
that are adapted to the high school j
were taught we would see a much !
larger percentage of attendance from
the mill villages.
The high schools and academies in <
the Northern States so arrange their !
curriculum with a practical as well as
classical course that those who know
that after graduating they will not
pursue a college or university course,
can elect studies along the line of their
chosen occupation.
It is as honorable to weave the cloth
as it is to wear it. I hope that we will
soon appreciate that there is much to
learn in the textile industry, and that
those of the younger generation who
wish may have a readier and much better
facility for acquiring ^it than at
present. X. Y. Z.
Fort Mill, Sept. 17.
Gets Road Contract.
For the sum of $;i2,r? W. F. Harris
of this city has been awarded the
contract to grade a portion of the 1
Hades bridge road and to erect, a new
bridge over the big branch just west of
the creek bridge.
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Quality Painting
ilor suggestions.
Fort Mill,
S. C.
Doors, Sashes and Blinds
require good judgment in their
selection, or else you must purchase
them at a
Reliable Lumber Yard
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ime ours, contractors ana nunc*
ers know that pood work cannot
be done with poor material, and
thar is why so many of them are
our customers.
Fort Mill Lumber Company,
'Phone 72.
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