The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-11
GRADUATES FROM THE SCHOOLS.


their school courses have listened to
many good words Of admonition, ad-
vice, cxhortatiop, and instruction dur
ing the closing days of the schools.
We trust that they havo given careful
attention to what has been said, and
that they may profit by the wise and
kindly words spoken TO them and in
their behalf. For, it is profitable to
listen 10 good counsel, and to attend
diligently to the words of the ex-
perienced, which tend to smooth the
pathway of those entering upon the
practical affairs of life. The words
spoken to them have been of general
tenor, and of personal benefit and hope
We wish 10 add Just few words to
those that have been spoken heretofore,
in the way Of immediate practical help.
fulncss.
We would say then, first of all, that
while using fair and proper discrim.
uation suitable to inclination, taste,
and requirement, the student should
not be too select in choosing what oc-
cupation is offered The offers of EN-.
ployment, or of a career, may not be as
numerous or as much to the taste of
the graduate as he might desire, but
ii is best to take hold of what is of.
fered, that is honest and useful, with
out being TOO particular as to pay, and
as to prospects. The main thing is TO
take hold and get started; and then,
with diligence, faithfulness, integrity,
and the application of such ability and
requirements as the person possesses,
the way of life ought to be reasonably
clear. The main thing is to get start,
and 10 do the best one can in the scrv-
ice entered upon. Don t be too psrticu.
lar in choosing, don't hang back, and
above all don I get the repute of being
ofish hard to please, trihing, indif'er
ent, or lazy.
Next. we would say, take hold in
Utah. 1t is an old saying that "far-
off fowls have feathers fair but when
ono undertakes to catch those far-otf
fowls, it often takes long journey,
aud usually the fowl will not he worth
the catching. Utah offers great and nu-
merous opportunities for helpful, up
building work Many industries are
vet to be developed in Utah, many
manufactures to be pushed to large and
paying proportions. There is opening
here also a new field in the way of dry
farming, that calls for almost unlim-
tied application, study, and skill. The
mines of the State are, TO certain
degree, developed, but there are many
mines yet to open and make produc
live. The oil fields of this State are
inst beginning to attract attention;
great fortunes have been made in oil
where the indications for that oil and
for those fortunes were nothing like as
bright as in Utah, Then there are the
various projects in several parts of the
State, involving the impounding of
flood waters, and the application Of
those waters to the soil later on in the
season. The largest rivers in the State,
the Green the Grand, and the Colorado,
are as yet practically untapped. The
large flows in all Of these streams have
not been encroached upon to any seri-
GUS extent, and besides, by the careful
outstanding and the less lavish use of
water, there will be found in all Of the
streams now in use for irrigation, con
siderable surpluses to apply to new
and as yet unreclaimed land.
Utah is comparatively a new State,
in fact. the whole country is compare
lively new. Large opportunities are
opening out, made by science, by the
revelations Of new possibilities in agri-
culture, horticulture, stock raising,
manufacture, transportation, and i'll
fact in the application Of all the ener-
gies of mankind. We are on the thresh-
old, evidently, of a new era in ad.
vancement and in the conquering of
nature S reluctant forces. Nowhere in
the United States better than in Utah
can the application Of the abilities and
the requirements of the graduates be
applied. The field is open here, the OPP
portunities are great and wide the re-
wards rich and abundant. The grad
yates from Utah s schools cannot DOS
sibly do better than to reward them.
selves and the community by the appli-
cation of their abilities and acquire
ments TO the great opportunities open
ing here in every line Of skill and
science, None of these graduates have
to go to other States to find fields for
their talents, The fields are right here,
the rewards for the proper application
of their talents are more abundant than
anywhere else, and the prospects Of sue
cess that are right here at hand, are
equal, il not superior, to those offered
anywhere IN the United States.
We say nothing here of the profes-
sions, though these, too, offer aIluring
prospects to those prepared TO go into
them, but prefer TO dwell upon mate
rial offerings, that are more usually
overlooked than are the professions.
And so our advice is to all these
graduates from the schools TO look