The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-10

his Work. Then there are three other
results. l have spoken of that keenness
of intellect, that habit of precision
that they acquire. They show
it by methods and in their
drawing. The one work makes the
other clear and plain. In this way
their intellectual powers are increased.
of observation. They can judge exactly
Shams are not encouraged by these
boys. 1t is hard to deceive teacher,
and the effort to deceive does not occur
to their minds; therefore, they grow to
be intellectual and honest. They are
true to themselves. These moral eff
fects crop into the avenues of their in
tellectual development. Boys are busy (,
they tn nix healthy thoughts.
There may be some fallacles enter
talned regarding the subject of manual
training. One is that a manual train
ing school is a manual labor school.
FherebaVe been great many manual Ia
Dor s5h 'Ol in the United States, but they
have always failed. They have been
org Md On the plan that a poor boy
can b. fnught TO work while he is going
| to school You cannot expect this
manual training VII be very wide. And
then such manual iabO~ has no conn &C.
ton Whatever with the education of the
boy. b lieye We ST rosponsihle or our
bows aud girls until they grow =. To
put responsibility or Gaming mis- own
living upon a boy of IA, is something
that no community should allow. A
manual training school is, therefore,
not a manual labor school. 1t is lot a
charity school at all There is another
fon kHok =. kl>aE ~
training school is supposed to be an
industrial school. l have visited some
of the industrial schools in Europe. In
some of these, single trades are taught.
For instance, some learn the trade of
discriminating; and after that is
learned thoroughly, they make baskets
all their lives. Therefore. a manual
training school is no more like an in
dustrial school than is this assembly.
Then some have thought that manual
training schools are for making car
penters and blacksmiths. They do not
see what we do with the various tools
unless we make the boy ma
chinist. But we make men. We
train them on all these points. If
one of our boys go down town to look
for trade, he may be asked, Who
are you" "a graduate from the
Manual Training School" These boys
can not Oily do a great deal Of work,
but they can make drawing and keep
the books, anu more boys are wanted.
| We turned out fOrty-eight three weeks
ago. We do not each trades. They
must take the place of an apprentice.
Then the worst OF al f. llaries is,
WHY not make SONS things ourselves
in our schools and sell them in the
market?" That is the biggest failacy
of all. To do this is the greatest and
most serious obstacle to success. In
the first place, our boys can be taught
| how to use tools; and when they have
learned how to use the tools, they
learn something else. There is no
automatism in a manual training
school for every step and movement
| involves constant thought. Every
motion of the hard is directed by the
conscious Will; and so long as the will
| is consciously making an effort in the
right direction, it is gaining strength.
The only article that We put upon the
market is boys.
l am AFRAID of wearying you.
l have spoken to you in this lars
building for nearly an hour, but the
story is not half Iold. l may speak
next in behalf of the toys
who will grow up to ill our
places. l cannot forebear urg-
ing you to look into this matter of man
ual education. Do not think that they
are TO choose low occupations and low
associations, that their aims in life Will
not be noble and lofty. No man can
be encountered by having too much Of
what is good and true. Thel efore,
say, if you would make your boy strong
and honest, and Clear-headed, he will
stand in the face of difficulties, and lie
will see his way through them. Then
give them that sort of training all
round, thus enabling them to see the
solution of practical problems.
l have had a father come to me and
say that he could not for the life OF
him, do what his boy did. A cord in
the window was broken, and be
cord. His boy said, Il will look and
see.,' He did so, and he saw that he
could do it very easily. The
whole process seemed to him per
fectly simple; and be did it to the
great satisfaction of his father. The
boys are taught to look things right
square in the face.
Now, among the farmers. The boy
who is going to be farmer should
have a training for farming. A boy
went through the school, and after he
went home his father sent him to work.
He was the best man on the farm. He was
the only one who could keep his gang of
men from lying idle, and he saved his
father more money than it cost for his
education for one year. Then the sec md
son aud a third son came to the
training school. The father, seeing the
good results of such course of educa-
tion, said that If he had thousand
sons be would send them all there.
l think things loudly speak for them
selves. l wish l could maze you feel,
as 1 feel, the Importance of this kind of
education. believe that we are doing
the best morally, spiritually aud men
tally-for our sons, that we may best
prepare them for their work in tue
world.
BISHOP o. F. WHITNEY,
who also addressed the congregation,
said:
1 hope you will not consider it an
imposition, my brethren, sisters and
friends. if l respond to the request
that has been made of me to add few
words to the remarks delivered py DR..
Woodward. He Is surnamed, believe,
the Apostle of Manual Training; and if