SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



The answer to that question is the North Carolina 

 Textile Foundation which has raised over $700,000. 

 This tidy sum has been contributed mostly from the 

 textile mills of the state and every penny of it is pledged 

 to be spent for men. The Foundation is now out to raise 

 an even million. 



At the wheel of this practically minded project is a 

 real textile executive, Malcolm Campbell, as canny as 

 his name. He is quick and decisive as an adding ma- 

 chine, but the spark of Isaiah glints in his brown eyes 

 when he begins to talk about what lies ahead for us all 

 in the field of fine fabrics. 



In building up the manpower of the North Carolina 

 Textile School, one of Campbell's first acquisitions was 

 Elliot Grover from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology with a business record of successful manage- 

 ment of one of Rhode Island's biggest mills. The latest 

 is Dr. Frederick T. Pierce, for twenty-three years at the 

 famous English school at Shirley, who will head the 

 new department of textile research. 



To train young men and women superlatively well 

 for careers in the textile industry is the first object at 

 Raleigh. The second is to give expert assistance to the 

 textile mills of North Carolina where more cotton 

 spindles and more rayon weaving machines are located 

 than in any other state. Beneath all lies an ambitious 

 program of research in which knitting and synthetic 

 fibers are prominent, for the North Carolina industry, 



292 



