Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 61, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 26, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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SATURDAY DECEMBER 28 im.
THE DAILY BULLETIN
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TEXTILE TRALMXG IX TEXAS.
College Station Tex. Dec. 26.
To the Bulletin:
Do you approve of the textile school
that is maintained . as one of the de-
partments at the A. & M. College of
Texas?
Do you think that it is accomplish-
ing all that it should?
These' questions have been asked by
J. B. Bagley instructor of textile en-
gineering of the A. & M. College di-
recting them to the mill men of the
state who are in charge of the cotton
factories. Each answer is yea to the
first and nay to the second but in an-
swering nay these mill men do not
say the fault lies either with the
textile department or with the A. & M.
College but that conditions outside
the college are the cause lack of In-
terest and other things of that char-
acter. Mr. Bagley has asked the mill
men to suggest ways in which the
manufacturers may co-operate with
the textile school increase its useful-
ness add to its student roll and make
more important its constituent part
in the education of the young men of
the state for whom the College was
established and for whom the state
gdve it an original rich endowment.
At the A. & M. College of Texas the
state has an investment of about sixty
thousand dollars in a textile depart-
ment. There is a handsome well con-
structed building of brick. Its inter-
ior arrangement is according to the
most modern plans and its appoint-
ments are according to every idea of
precaution against fire so that it can
be shown to the students of that de-
partment what is necessary in con-
struction to-guarantee safety-to life
and property in an extensive estab-
lishment The building is equipped
with machinery of all the types used
in a cotton mill. It gives a practical
operation of every process from the
opener to the loom; it takes the raw
product and turns out the finished ma-
terial. It does not however include
4mule spinning" which turns out the
finest numbers of yarns.
It is not intended that the students
of this textile department shall go
out into the world as mill hands but
that they shall get their first knowl-
edge here. "With this equipment it is
indeed to fit the student for manufac-
turing work in the future. Texas Is a
cotton growing state yet Texas buys
the manufactured cotton goods from
every other part of the world. The
mills for the manufacture of cotton
by-products are in the South where the
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cotton seed can be obtained .direct
from the producer yet there is little
being done in the manufacture of cot-
ton goods in the South although some
of the Southern states have made good
progress along this line and in those
states where there are cotton mills
there Is profit being made on the in-
vestment. In Texas there are seven-
teen cotton mills. After a visit to
these various mills Col. R. T. Milner.
the commissioner of agriculture but
now president of the A. & M. College
of Texas reached the conclusion that
in Texas the labor question should be
no drawback to the cotton mill in-
dustry. In an article which he pre-
pared for the press of Texas last May
he called attention to the fact that
within seven mill counties there was
produced more than G0D.00D bales of
cotton; that the cotton mills get more
hands from the rural sections than
from urban .population and that the
mill managers say that It is a better
class of labor that comes from the
country and his conclusion. Is that
there are people in the country who
want this labor If they will but un
derstand how much better It is for
them than for the harder labor that
they are doing now.
It is to build up educated mill men
j that the textile school has an object.
J It is not necessary to take a course
at this school if one merely wants to
be handy at the mill because a person
can go from the field or from any
other class of employment to the mill
labor. and by attention te the duties
which will be assigned him will grad-
ually advance from one part of the
work to another his value to the mill
Increasing all the time. But it is in-
tended that the young men who take
the course in the textile school at th?
college shall learn the theory of cot-
ton mill manufacture shall learn how
to figure the waste and the saving
and the methods and other technical
things that must be known to those
who are in control. The students of
the textile school are of course boys
young men rather might they be call-
ed. When they finish the course they
are not of years sufficient to inspire
confidence of mill owners so they can
J become at once managers or super
intendents with the education of the
the school they are prepared to go Into
a mill tako work for two or three
years and about the time they have
rnrh.od the age of discretion In busi-
ness affairs say 25 they can be en-
trusted -with the responsibility of de-
partmental management or of control
of a mill property
In discussing the matter with Col.
Milner Albert T. Clifton of Hlllsboro.
the manager of the mill there who is
a Texan by birth but who obtained
his textile education in Philadelphia
said that the young men could obtain
better education In Texas schools than
in the schools of the East "We
have advantages" he said "In our
school that are superior to the school
which I attended which was consider-
ed at that time to be the best in the
United States."
In an effort to create a greater in-
terest in the textile school at the A. &
M. College Mr. Bagley who has charge
of the plant has recently made a trip
to a number of the cotton mills of the
state. He finds that all mill managers
are friendly to the school that they
are willing to do all they can to pro-
mote It and to encourage young men
to take the course. He visited Bren-
ham West. Itasca Hlllsboro Waxa-
hachle" Bonham Sherman Denlson
Dallas and Corsicana On his return
from this trip Mr. Bagley said: "The
grade of cotton that Is already being
made in Texas increase the value of
the cotton one hundred per cent or
more and there Is no investment that
is more attractive to the community
as a whole. I talked with the manag-
ers at the plants which I visited and
they consider the mill work a profit-
able line for a young man to take if
he means business if he is w'lling to
work his way up by experience. We
claim for the course at the textile
school that it gables ayoung man to
get the necessarv .experience In a
much shorter tmii If. he passes
through the actual practical work at
the mill and he is getting at the same
time other branches such as English
mathematics ets. that must fit his
mind for a successful career In the
business world the education of the
head and the hand. No man can be
successful in the conduct of a business
like a cotton mill except that he has
had some academic education that will
fit him to measure strength in the
business affairs of life; that will en-
able him to follow his own calcula-
tions as to profit and loss economy
and production. A young man who
has scarcely seen a cotton mill could
not get the necessary experience to fit
him for the management of a plant
costing from $100000 to $500000. The
raw material cos.ts too much and can
be ruined in too short a time. In the
school they gather statistics that
would require many years of patient
work If they were to try it while pur-
suing the work thoy would have to
dc in the mills and the facilities would
not be as easy to command while
working in the mill while they are at
hand In the school.
"In my meeting with the managers
of these various mills I find they all
feel the need of overseers of efficiency
tc whom they might look for such pro-
gress that they would be competent as
superintendents in the future. All of
the mills In the state are small but
they pay their overseers from 2 to $4
ler day. and the superintendents are
paid from $1500 to $3000 per ear.
One manager with whom I talked
thought that each mill should send one
of its brightest boys to the textile
school and prepare him as an all-
around man to be worked anywhere
in the mill and finally to become the
superintendent when there is a neces-
sity for a change. Several of the mills
have offered to take the students of
the textile school -for summer work
and pay them what they can afford
for the work done. This will give the
student an excellent idea of the prac-
tical work In the line in which he Is
making preparations for the future."
Col. Milner and Mr. Bagley are both
very anxious to have more attention
given the textile school. Col. Milner
wants to see the cotton mill Industry
increased in the South and especially
In Texas and he believes that the ex-
perience of the mills now In the state
is Sufficient influence- to have others
make a similar investment It Is
; shown that where Texas mills have
had competent management that they
have made a profit It is not a criti-
cism of those who were in the man-
agerial positions to say they were not
competent In. Instances of new mill'
construction where-local capital was
Interested the management has been
placed in the hands of some one who
was financially Interested who had
made a successful business career in
other lines but who had never had
experience In the mill business. Lack-
ing In the technical knowledge that is
necessary to success they failed to
; find it profitable and the profit In the
business has come after the men who
had a practical knowledge as well as'
theoretical education have replaced
those who tried the experiment. The
result is that when new mills are
built now the management will be put
in the hands of those who are ex-
perienced. The textile school at the A. & M. Col-
lege is expected to furnish the men
for these future positions. Young men
who will take the course outlined for
them at the textile school will co from
!the sehfor class to profitable work and
step by step they will advance to these
positions and become active in the. de-
velopnient of the cotton mill Industry
l: the state.
'Col. Milner says: "The business in-
terests of the South have never been
able to grasp the full value of cotton.
With the world for a market and pos-
sessing nearly all of the soil upon
vhlch It Is practicable to raise It less
than one-sixth of the crop Is left In
the South for the factory while the
rest is sold at a price which compared
to its intrinsic value is Insignificant
and often at figures that are pitiable.
Why should not the producer be the
manufacturer as well. AH the brain
and muscle which we have been able
to make use of In the production of a
bale of cotton has not increased Its
market value over $50 on the at'erage.
Often when the man who raised it has
contended for more he has been re-
minded that ten cents per pound is a
Lig price for cotton.
"Cotton has no practical value" in
the form of a bale" continues Col.
Milner. "However much labor capl-
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1 1 its production It is no use to man
until it has been manufactured into
v. earing fabrics. At Southern mar-
kets where cotton Is grown. It repre
sents a commercial value of fifty dol-!
lars per bale. That is about the aver-
age price for the last thirty years.
That bale of cotton Is shipped to New
England where its value is increased
to $127.93 .the average value of the
manufactured product according to
the report of the United States census
for the past thirty-seven years or a
gain to New England of $77.93 per
bale. From 1870 to 1905 inclusive
the South produced 259408942 bales
receiving In the aggregate the sum of
$11100725285. During that time New
England manufactured 59.591000 bales
and received for the product the sum
of $7623836445. In other words New
England increased the value of less
than one-fourth of the total amount
ol the cotton that the South produced
in those years to over one-half the
amount the producers received for the
entire raw product The Southern peo-l-le-
must learn the Importance of pro-
viding by co-operation with each other
for mnrhfnprv and slflll rn h pmnlnv-
cd at home in the manufacture of a
good per cent of the raw material"
thus doubling and trebling the wealth
of cotton in the fields where it Is pro-
cucea.
In some way Mr. Bagley and those
who are managing the mills in this
state hope to co-operate In bringing
the attention of the young men of Tex-
as 'to bear upon the textile school at
the A. & M. College. It Is confidently
In lieved by those' who are studying ths
situation in Texas that there will bo
an increase in the investment in cotton
mills In this sLitf and those voune-
n-en who take advantage of the edu-
cational facilities provided In the tex-
tile school will be factors In the de-
of the cotton growing section of the
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