Show louus utah ho young men of utah have distinguished themselves in the past for their untiring thirst for knowledge the time was when no saloons gambling rooms or billiard halla could be found outside of the larger cities and mining camps the young men then had literary associations debating societies etc now a aaroon and a billiard hall ia becoming a fixture in every little town and the boys in too many caes have not moral courage enough to resist their allurements allure ments in this city the writer recently counted twenty two minors playing and watching games of pool the evan inga are now long and the idea naturally suggested itself how profitless if not vicious is such pastime it looked absolutely sinful to eee boys thus staring at the rolling ivory balls when there are so great opportunities before them for improvement sometimes we think that while utah is exerting itself in missionary work among many foreign nations might profitably commence a little missionary work at home wo ought to work for thy establishment of public reading rooms and other like whre the boys would like to congregate A from the eart had an idle day in fiovo and d aired to be directed to a publia reading room we had to confess with out si ie of one ur iau good school librae aas there was n n roudine roudi nr room m lie city and what is conr population y e about seven was answered he said no thio but we amaina he daiil some unfavorable thinking there is no mistake about it provo ought to have at least one large reading room we would suggest that such a reading room could be established ID con with the volunteer fire department there is a large well lighted room at the ti remena hall with a man in attendance drawing a salary from the city baoy of our citizens would gladly contribute a volume or two for a public library and it could be run under the auspices of the volunteer tiro department and indirectly under the control of the city aa wo said before something in that line is necessary to lead our boys from the indolent life many are following there ia no good reason why the present generation of boys should not presidents of colleges and leading and judges the class of boys that judge jung belonged to for example has produced a president of the university dr james E talmage a president of the utah college J H paul a principal of the brigham young academy B cluff jr 0 principal of the brigham young college prof kerr all are utah boag of a time whoa the saloon life had not become a fixture in the society of utah will the present generation of boys produce as good results they ought to produce more learned men the opportunities are greater daoa wa are to have statehood and then there will be many more important positions to fill will the utah boys be given the positions they will have the farat claim if they qualify themselves strangers will nil the offices f utah boys are not qualified |