The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-15

MADE by the Journal Of Industrial Edu-
cation would seem to indicate that the
popular impression in regard to educa.
ton, temperance and crime is not vel
funded. The Journal named took two
representative penItentieries, ,one il
Pennsylvania and one in Illinois, and
carefully analysed the statistics which
they furnished. There were some 2 60C
ocnvicts, Of whom more than 600 were
fairly well educated, aud between lou
and 210 we're college graduates. Many
OF the worst criminals were among
the best educated, their crimes
being OF the vulgarest and most
brutal character, though IS rule the
crimes for which the educated m n
| we're punish ID were not offenses OF q
violent and bloody nature.
OF the whole number OF convicts, !20
we're total abStaners, and only about 81
| per cent were of incorporate habits,
the others beirg what are termed mod
crate drinkers. II intemperance and
lack of knowledge are promotiVe oil
crime, the Journals Investigations mus,
have been made at q time when
an exceptional condition of thing
existed at the penal institutions
which is not probable. 1t is
likely that the inquiry extended to ell
the penitentiaries in the country would
make a showing similar 70 the above.
But there was a significant and sug
ges i've revelation in this investi
cation. 1t was this, that more thar
fourteen hundred of these convicts hac
never learned trade. A bets argu-
ment in favor of manual training in to,
schools could not be presented.
Criminals come largely from the idl
class, and the idlers are largely thos.
without trades or professions. There
is always danger when there are idl,
hands, and we are not certain that 81
active, trained brain as the director O.
Idle hands is not more mischievou
than a sluggish, uneducated one. Ii
there is no legitimate employment fol
the hands the bright miud is Very ap
to give them something crooked to do
The idlers in community are not the
mechanics, not the skilled laborers bui
the common workingmen, the men wis
because of their lack of skill anu
training must accept the loves
forms of work.
The declaration from the earliest
times has been that all labor is honor
a ole, and this is true, but who does not
know tina. education eau es man to
aspire to something above the lower |
form OF manual toil9 In theory homes
abor, whether skilled or un>kili, d, l. |
equally honorable and respect .bIs, out
% pTactice the educated mn breads If |
he does not despise unskilled work. II |
would undoubtedly be b tier, and the |
Journals Investigations prove This. 10 |
accomnany book education with prac |
.ical knowledge and training in the !
1
tertiary statistics prove anything, ia-
luces the following of crooked and IT. |
regular means OF gaining livelihood |
oy the educated. Their miads will fnu |
Iomething for their hands to do, and a.
'heir education has led them
20 despise unskilled toll an,
heir hands are rot trained to skilled |
abor, their activity natu ally runs in
crooked paths. Industrial ,ducatloD
Ind manual training should form q
,art of the Common school course. To
make it SO will be humanitarian and
will be protective of society.
The young man who starts out in life
With trade, no matter how we'll he i |
,duoated, nor how much money he has
Jack Of him, gives promise of becoming |
good and useful cjtiz n.