The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-21

some sort OF trade, and trade
never handicapped anybody. over In
Germany the boys work for years at
an apprenticeship without pay, while
here conditions are more favorable to
them. The work of the tradesman is,
II is true, being supplanted largely
by machinery, but there is still ample
need OF young men In all lines Of
constructive industry and 1t would
even things up " more of them would
stick to a reputable trade ard follow
II up.
There Is too much of tendency
among young men of today to wear
white collars at their work and nobby
suits of clothes, with fancy vests.
There Is too much of tendency
among the young men OF today, just
growing into their majority, to pre-.
serve pretty white hands with well
polished nails, and to run and hide
from work that Is manual-or, for the
matter of that, from work that is
work.
The young man of today seems to
have an idea that life is easy and
that making a living Is no problem
at all With him 1t is only question
of how many millions he shall pile
up when once he gets out Of college.
And all of that as a reward for his
brains.
The young man of the present day
sincerely believes that he can leave
off where his father began, making
his start at the bookkeeper's desk of
an industrial plant, and, bossing the
job, far surpass the success that was
attained by his Woodworking parent.
Education is all right enough, but
education should educate for some
definite purpose and not merely for
the sake of a diploma and several
must be a choice between learning
to work at trade which will give
the youth some Idea of constructive
processes aud which will give him an
asset upon which he may always fall
back for his living, and learning to
read Latin and to dance well, the
trade, as a concrete, tangible, serious
business, should have the preference
There is too much of spending the
third of ones life at books and foot.
ball these days, with study of which
color of neckties should be worn, as
the summers occupation; and then
coming out of college without knowing
the first rudiments of making a liv
ing; without the slightest particle Of
knowledge of how to do anything Of
actual value on earth
The young man of today seems t
think keeping in touch with the foot
ball scores, "jollying" the girls, wear
ing dress suits to the dances, smoking
bulldog" pipes, talking about fra
ternity pins, and incidentally select
ing enough Snaps" in the colleg,
course to slide through without mucl
actual study, for four years, ought t
give him a place in the world along
side the men who have been devotin,
years and years to learning the detail
of trade-industry which is just a
deep and just as complicated as
game of football ever dared to be-
Many young man comes out of col
lege in pair of balloon SHAPED
trousers, all ready to lift the world
burdens, but as helpless, so far a
having any practical ideas or an,
skill with his hands, as a babe in tn
cradle. 1t is argued that they are bel
ter prepared to learn then the wa
does not always work out in practic
because these young men insist o.
experimenting things, without know
ing the elementary details that mus
be known to superintendent.
Higher education, taken with
definite object in view, is a hand
thing with which to complete the edl
cation of the hands. But the peopl
who really make the wheels of tn
:, world go around are the people VIII
. know the details of some industri'
trade and who can. with their hand
build and make the things that societ
a.. needs.
Education must have a place
rounding out the minds of GROWN
men and in charging their sphere
but, after ALL for the fundament
! education and the fundamental pow,
to earn a living, in case of any eme
gency, we must go back to the hand
The bakery industry in Norfolk
. and, by the way, that is an importa
y, factor of the city's upbuilding-cou
=, increase its output of loaves wi
= which to feed northern Nebraska al