Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-14

have manufactures here, but this varied
farming has been one OF the elements
that have brought the factories here.
And still we do not have enough of it
here. These factory people are at least
complaining of having to pay too much
t5r their beef, their pork, their corn,
potatoes, butter, &C., which would look
as 1.-THE farmers do not grow enough OF
these articles. But we might state right
here that the farmers are constantly
complaining of their business not being
renumerative, and that so many other
branches of business pay better. The
merchant makes his fortune often before
the silver begins to tinge his hair, aud
the corner grocery man is able to get a
tapestry carpet and piano before the
farmer or mechanic, while the young
clerk or farmer boy who goes into the
country store is able to buy farm sooner
than any of his brothers and have
better time while at work than his
customers, who must be content to
wear shoddy clothes and eat the glucose
sugar and molasses which he sells them.
Is it wonder that the plucky farmers
boy desires togo West.
PROPER EDUCATION.
Apropos of our notice of the Southern
World, we append an article on the
Educational Wants of the South"
which will apply with equal force to
other sections OF the country. 1t ap-
peals to you, reader, be you father or
mother, son oradaughter; as well as to
some one else in your neighborhOod.
For the utilization of our undeveloped
resources We must have factories, but
for these, trained, intelligent, skilled
labor is necessary. But TO the article:
I'VE have an over-supply of clerks,
lawyers and politicians, and we always
will have; but we are sadly deficient in
men whose hands are cultivated as
well as their brains. We lack intelli-
gent mechanics and civil engineers, and
iOremen, and managers Of machinery.
II we gather enough money to start a
factory, we have to send to other States
to get men competent to guide the ma
chinery and conduct the inside opera
tiOns of the factory. If we build rail-
road, We must at the outset import en-
gineers and afterward men skilled in
operating railroad.
"Hhis is all wrong. The young man
of the future in the South-the best in
the land-should study, as soon as he.
leaves school, some department of man
ufacturing. He must first, of course,
make himself skilled mechanic-learn
q trade in other wOrds-and he need
not and should not dislike the phrase.
1t is certainly as honorable and as
pleasant to set horses shoe as it is to
pettifOg case in justice's'cOurt, or sell
ribbons in retail store, or serve in any
other half-paid and precarious employ
ment. We must get rid of that sham
geltility that desplses labor, and especi-
ally labor in which brain and skill are
harmOniously and effectively united.
If the South is to become independent
if her industrial interests are ever fully
developed, her young men must aban-
don old time notions of labor, and pre-
pare themselves to take charge Of mat
tiers that are now necessarily the spells
of strangers. The best and most invit-
ing places in the Southern country now
90, as they 90 in Mexico and Egypt, to
skilled men from other and more sensi-
bic States. The better the boy is edu-
Gated, the better mechanic, or superin-
terdent, or engineer, he will make. The
high school is as useful to the future
mechanic as to the future lawyer or
merchant. All boys need all the school
ing they can get; but after they leave
school let them turn to Industrial rather
than professional avenues.
"TO effect this we need, as in all other
reforms, change in public sentiment.
We need q sentiment that will condemn
the folly of the past in this respect.
We need q sentiment that will recOg-
niZe the fact that the great industries
furnish the best field for the young man
who has a career to make-that in them
is to be found both good wages and the
most promising and desirable employ
ment that the land affords. five can
once secure such public sentiment, We
can safely trust the remainder of the
problem to the courage and good sense
of the young men of the South