The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-27
HEARTEN THE GRADUATES.
Why Old Engineers Should Help tne
the Youngsters.

This is the season when young men are
graduated from the schools OF mines anu
start on their career, says the MINING
and Scientific Press. They nave mao Sl, re-
and they have been loaded with adNlCs
more than they can comfortably assn
late therefore we shall not burden thS mem
further with similar injunctionS. cl tiiS
contrary we address ourselves TO those
who are bit ahead OF these new Sfau-
yates. that is. to the older Heh oi tiiS
profession to whom may come the oppol-
tunity to do a kindness or 10 give d help,
ing hand, Most Of US were inexperienced
once. we started with the freshness OF
the graduate who has "a world TO conquer.
and if we look back a lew years We re,
member that our verdancy was more
vivid and our inexperience more heipless
than even the youngest of the fellows that
may come to us today for su2SestiOh' d
bit of advice. or a job
The graduates have had their bacca-
laureate sermons. why not give one TO
the undergraduates, to the old campaign
ers in the field? We venture 70 give on on,
of the professional spirit that Is almost
the only fine thing left in q day oil low
ideals and corrupt politics. TO these posi-
graduates in the school OF experience ~
which the learning is never finished until
life itself brings the lesson to an emo
to them we prOffer the request 70 en-
courage the young fellows Even IL ~
cannot give them employment give them
encouragement of the kind that would
have heartened you when you were start
ing out -,
There are plenty of men to tell them
how difficult II is to get on, and how
rough is the path that leads TO an I'M
certain sort of success; don't bother 70
reiterate this sort of thing, but give
them a CHEEKY word and a warm hand
clasp. tell them of some of the blunders
that YOU made and the obstacles lnaI you
overcame. Let them know that although
the work IS not always in accord with
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necessarily in direct fulfillment OF then
ideals it is worth doing, If for nothing
else then as a preparation for an oppor-
tunity that may come
ayers and smelter superintendents, thelh-
selves college graduates, who nave an-
nounced that they wanted no university
fledglingS. but preferred thoSe IecTulleu
more directly from the labOring class. For
men that are such renegades to their OWE
training and SO ungratetul 20 the laudeI
by which they have ascended. we nave
cheerful contempt. for II technical euu-
cation does not make young man more
intelligent and useful, we have all maze
a basic blunder. and had better become
hod-carriers- Fortunately sucn Iia 10y w
minded persons are scarce. and are rarely
i'm authority for long, so we snail nope
that our friends that graduate TINS year
will escape an encounter with them-
Most of the older professional men have
| learnt enough from their own biunders
and successes to be aware how much tneS
owe to a little help at the start When
each man depends upon the kindly con
sideratiOn of others far more than upon
anv merit of his own. And whether Won
become the first man in your profession
! or accumulate a million. you can at ieaS'
win one thing worth having, ana tndt !;
/ the gratitude of some Young fellow whon
! Won have assisted at the beginning OF ms
! career.
Won may have to assist several to gei
| the Gratitude of one. or you may be lucky
and be remembered in the good will o.
| each one that you aid: possibly you may
not be informed of the kindly feeling 1ell
! for Won nv any of them; in whatever
wav this intensely personal equation MAY
work out it is something to be BALANCED
against eminence or wealth If one or tW'
useful men can say ten or twenty years
/ hence that they owe their first start e
/ YOU. to your courtesy, to your encourage
/ ment or to the work that you gave then
/ the chance TO perform.
Some one helped you at the commence
ment of your career; pass it on.