Show future utah A prominent citizen of provo requested us to call attention to the vast number of young men who are rushing into professions while scarce ly any are learning trades the professions fes are becoming overcrowded and what a new country lacking development most needs is mechanics professional men are the consumers tradesmen are the producers both are necessary for the welfare of society but fc ia unfortunate when the tendency of the young men are all in one direction all cannot become lawyers and doctors in fact the smaller the number of euch professions a community requires the better is its condition some of course are needed bat there ia always room for skilled mechanics generally the moie skilled workmen a community has the better it is off this is especially true in young commonwealths THE has mentioned this theme before it will be remembered that when the addition was being erected to the territorial insane asylum we called attention to bosses of the work the tradesmen who were doing the bricklaying brick laying for example were ordering utah boys about in strong foreign accents young utah were tha hod carriers at a day and foreigners were the mechanics getting 5 a day we conversed with both classes of men and the hod carriers were not only the peers in intelligence of the foreigners but they were in moat cases more intelligent and jast for the lack of a little skill a little practice in a simple craft they had to become menial slaves such a condition is truly pitiable aud yet it will continue with us ao long as the young men have no other desire than to become bookkeepers book keepers teachers druggists editors doctors and lawyers young utah will become an educated set of menial slaves unless they turn their attention more to trades the professions today are overstocked over stocked in utah it may be said of course that there ia aldaya room at the head of the profession but every time a young man goes up he crowds other companions down and there ia not room for all at the head but in the trades there is room industrial era has scarcely begun we will need a hundred car penters in the near future where we will need one lawyer we will need masons where we will need one doctor we need twenty five engineers where we will need one school teacher and wo will need skilled factory hands where we need one editor there is always room in the productive industries markets alone could today give employment to thousands of skilled workmen for example the lehi sugar factory produces four million pounds of sugar in a year employing two thousand skilled farmers and factory hands that amount of sugar is only a fourth of the amount of sugar used every year by the people of utah it would require three more such sugar works and six thousand more to produce the sugar that the people of utah alone consume every year here ia an absolute market that must he supplied if utah industry does not supply the necessity other works will we have not the figures in the woolen industries but that is even greater then there is our demand for iron and we have mountains of iron all necessities will yet be manufactured to a larga extent at hem and what afield for employment there will be for young utah if they are qualified it they are not then foreigners will come hare and run cur machine shops and be the foreman of our mills oar advice most emphatically is that more young men become apprentices in useful trades and that less seek to become professional men |