Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
Industry Calls For
Man Who Know.
BY Martin owen.

Every one Is familiar with the
ancient workers truism to the et.
feet that there is no labor so crude,
coarse, unskilled or mechanical that
it cnn not be done better by a man
of trained intelligence than by one
who Is a mere muscular machine.
The fathers OF the old school who
reared their children to earn an
"honcst living with their hands
could not see what algebra and Lat
in had to do with the handling ola
pick and shovel.
Every branch Of industry In this
country has been developed under
the pressure of competition until
the mcancst and lowliest jobs avail.
able are the better handled by men
with some sort of special prepare.
ton. a theoretical knowledge Of the
principles underlying craft make
a day laborer surer of holding his
job than the man who boasts OF the
strength of his hand and no more.
Tho farm hand who knows clay
soil from loan. WHO knows seed
that Will germinate from seed
that will not. who knows what con-
tains phosphate and tho kind Of
fertilizer that will bring crops out
of n given soil, can outbid any
three lads OF tho old type who
could pull pillow with their own
strength or lift a load Of hay into
position on the barn floor.
The blacksmith who knows how
steel is made and what its proper
ties arc, who know In what Nor
way iron differs from cast, and
the reason that borax makes
weld possible. will do better WORK
than the fellow whose only claim
to admiration Is his traditional
blacksmith's biceps.
There was Il feeling once among
those to whom was allotted ihs
task Of training our workers tba'
anything more than the az
prcntice's course untitled me
youngster for his work by instll''
ing foolish ambitions into him.
Fortunately. manual work no long
or Is regarded as n degradation
and n hand worker with trained
mind no longer Is the anomaly ne
was in the eyes Of the last genera
ton. We do not believe that ="
oretical training, which
a mans mind, deprlvcs IL. MS !
practical usefulness; we sl'iPE L
think that 1t makes him 4 inter
workman.
Technical departments IN COZ g
lcgcs. trade schools of the hlshe' 4
order, ana tho contact Of the pre-,
pared worker with the unprcPaa'''e'
have done Il missionary work !"
giving work. practical work. #
dignity in tho eyes of the worh.'
and tho scholastic man as wen "a
The number Of men with coi'es'
isGIttS WHO are WpINinS ~ - La
Flowing fields, cutting t'mpeH',
doing practical work in eleclrl'a'
lines. and the like is good ihui'"
ton that tho practical dcpart'''e',r
of big universities do not man
men snobbish.
Germany, recognizing that al NV
cannot be superintendent, lnosu'
workmen, contractors, and eist
necrs, has established u series :"
public training schools. IKE ~,
trade schools, which tit men " y"
the common day labor OF .n ~.
crafts more intelllgently ana ~"
GENTLY than If they were s.'' md
turned loose as untutored boys , J
given cumbersome tools WIN Mm ,sr.
to train themselves. Even me e.. ny 10
chants of Germany subscripu II
maintain schools for the tra'sii"s
their employees .,on
il Il man never IS to do rloru hat.
shovel out bitches he viii 90 y !, ' he
ter and more satisfactorily LA
has n developed intelligence a'u
mind that is taught to act.