The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-09-09
Democratic Platform.
1. Initiative
Q. Referendum
3. Recall
Are Boys and Girls Of Today Properly
Trained?
FALSE PRIDE KEEPS BOYS FROM
LEARNING TRADES.


FALSE PRIDE KEEPS BOYS FROM
LEARNING TRADES.
(By Charles A. Bookwalter, Formerly of In
dianapolis.)
The American boy of today con-
siders it dishonorable and disgrace
to work with his sleeves rolled up be-
cause of a deplorable existence of
False Pride.
Bows are refusing to learn trades
and work with their hands because OF
the existence of false social caste
which has been created and which
causes the boy to look down upon
honest labor.
American people must either edu-
cate their boys properly or they viii
have these boys grasping at their
thrcats before long. The boys must
be taught the honorable use of their
hands. We don't want boys with
heads as big as bushel baskets and
arms like broomsticks.
We don't want our boys to think
that it is more fattering to work as
a clerk in some Office or to pound
KEYS of a typewriter than to become
an efficient craftsman, the master OF
an honorable and profitable trade.
This mistake in education is one OF
the curses of the age. The only
method of stopping it is to establish
the proper trade schools throughout
the country and to place them upon
the same plane as the high schools
and other institutions which modern
bovs are proud to attend. We must
impress upon the lad that it is no dis
grace to work with his hands.
The great trouble today is that we
are getting too many consumers and
not enough producers. Just think
how much more necessary and hoW
much more profitable it is to be a
producer than only consumer.
We have enough poor, pale faced
clerks, secretaries and men of that
sort, but we can never have enough
efficient craftsmen.
TIC LIFE.
;. fBy John Kirby, Jr, President of the National
Association of Manufacturers
A large part of the girls now leav-
ing school at fourteen have to go TO
work. Ability to earn money seems
to them of so much Importance that
thev have little inclination for do
mestic work. But they are never
theless potential wives and mothers,
and it is important that the public
wake up to what this type of girl
needs and provide for it. She knows
herself and will provide for what she
wants.
We must bring domestic education
to the front and do everything we
can to place it on higher plane
socially and economically.
The Importance of education in
cooking and housekeeping does not
alter the fact that it's progress de-
pends on the girls altitude toward
it, and unless the public generally
shows a greater appreciation of the
importa nee and dignity OF such WORK
we might as we'll give up trying to
convince the girls of it.
1t is a we'll known fact that there
are many forms of industry in which
women excel men. There isn't any
thing a woman can't do if she makes
up her mind to do it. 1 shouldn't
lilo 70 see women emplOVed as black.
smiths or molders, but know they
could I'LL even those occupations il
they undertook them. A friend OF
mine saw a woman making bricks in
Wisconsin not long ago. There's nc
question of whether her present edu
cation in fitting her for her imme
diate tasks doesn't unfit her for hel
ultimate destiny as a wife and
mother.