Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-01-18
LUMBER INDUSTRY is
CALLING FOR MEN
NEED MORE WoRKMEN I'M OVER
ALLS AND LESS WHITE
COLLAR JOBS

wood,-a shortage of men who can
secure the best results possible in
turning a piece of rough wood into
some useful thing of art and beauty.
The school is the proper place to ex
cite the enthusiasm and awaken the
interest of the coming man-to create
in his mind the desire to plane, to saw,
to fashion, to work in wood.
Our present day system of education
is faulty The in-nobtlity, the disgrace
of soiled hands and the workmen's
suit, is being more and more instilled
in the minds of the boys and girls
not only in the schools, but in the
homes where education first starts;
and this influence is manifested in the
schools. This is as true of the coun-
try schools and homes as of the towns
and cities of our Nation. Work, com
mon labor, is thing debased, and yet
no real success in life has come with
out work and ceaseless effort.
The mothers Of the nation are nat
uraIly ambitious for their children and
in countless homes the "Old Man" is
held up as an example of what not
to be. Poor dad Flooding, hard work
ing, seemingly unambiEious, frugal,
self-effacing and unselfish,-no push
ing to the front, no mental fireworks
his thoughts, his dreams for the
ones dependent upon his efforts; his
ambitions, his heart-aches, his disa-
ppointments smothered under veil
OF silence and blank expression,-a vic
tim of the deadly, daily grind, under
stood by few, misunderstood by many
he steadily Carries on
Mother, with the nesting instinct
and the desire for the betterment of
her offspring, has the clearer perspec-
tive. With her it is constant fight
to keep UP appearances,-to keep the
home fires burning; while welcoming
the weekly pay check as meal ticket
she has the idea that hard work Don't
get you much" She breaches thus and
points out the more fortunate as mod
els, lives to study and to pattern after.
She is preaching and breeding di
vine discomfort and this spirit, this
feeling of unrest and ambition, has
made the United States what it is to-
day, and will drive it on to greater
things.
1t takes all kinds of people to make
a world, and our present method of
education is too sugar-coated, too
much like Mother Hubbard that COW
ers a great deal without touching on
anything in particular a lack of spec
ialization and thoroughness.
Walk into some of the larger cities
and talk to the radicals that seek to
overthrow our present form of govern
ment,--to Russianize our institutions,
and you will find that large per-
centage of the leaders are high school
graduates or who have gone farther
and passed year or more in some
university or college. They have
smattering of knowledge, but are I'M
fitted for any work, through their
state of mind and their distaste for
concentration and work.
The people cy out against the in
flux of the uneducated foreigner; but,
the reds are not led by skis" but by
men with good old American, English,
Irish and Swedish names Dig deeper
and you will find that their fathers
were the hard-working men that made
our country possible; who toiled and
saved to educate their boys and give
them advantages that they, themsel-
yes, craved for, and you will not have
to ruin your imagination to sense the
disgust of the sire towards the roam
ing insult.
There is more danger to our nation
through the class we picture than
from the right kind of immigrants
who have been taught to labor and to
save The latter have constructive
ideas; the former destructive, and we
need to stress more those studies in
our schools that tend to inspire con
structive thought, concentrated think
ing, and definite results. And, what is
better than working in wood? Educat-
ing the eye, the mind the imagination,
and the hand, the mental picture and
it's working out; bringing into play all
of the best of man. And, a man so
grounded in fundamentals will never
be victim of the impossible dreamer
1t is up to the men in the lumber
business to arouse interest in this
question and to make it possible for
the boy to secure the wood that he
needs in his practice and work.
Put the question to yourself and to
your men. If boy came in your yard
or factory today inquiring for certain
pieces of wood with which to fashion
something that was in his mind, would
you make it easy for him to secure it;
or, would you bark at him and send
him away discouraged and dishearten-
ed?
Thousands of embryo wood workers
have been driven into other fields by