Show suggestions FROM GROVER wayne co utah nov 2 1896 an editorial in your evening issue of october 26 last contains a reference to the necessity for the encouragement of our home industry interests As ae this is ii a matter in which I 1 tool fee the greatest concerns concern I 1 feel impelled to address you on the subject A casual visit to any of our cur settlements will reveal the fact that many of our budding youth are passing a large a amount of their time in the moet moat desultory employments employment which to is another name dame for idleness id lenece but they are doing this most moet unwillingly As aa little boys they found some sorl of a pastime in the sports and play games of childhood but now they desire to put childish things away and learn leara the sterner duties of life I 1 feel corn passionately for the yung people to tor r I 1 realize bow many of them feel childhoods Childhood lis days came and went and with them childish pastimes pae timea ano and pleasured plea plesia suree uree und and as each successive year ran its course a natural dignity grew upon them moat emphatically mark ing the development of character A children they found pastimes that are iu a measure denied to them as lip and they now wait looking askance at the elders or others to lead triem toem educational facilities abound al most moat to saturation in our larger towns cowne but it la is of the smaller sett settlements lemento that I 1 would enlist sympathy and bell hel those hose places where school is ie held but for two terms in the year how little real lasting effect has the elevating influence of the school room upun upon tte the scholar when it is offset by three fifths fifthe of the year ot ol almost enforced idleness s completely so in the case of those too young to help in farming work and added to this when the knowledge imparted is of an abstract nature and hence bence difficult to retain our state JIBB bag come to the front in assuming state duties and we need every able minded resident whether citizen or not to push or be pushed to the be front also aleo in discharging those these duties with vim tim an and 1 credit whatever may have been accomplished accomplish ea by our pioneer fathers will not dot suffice for us or for the coming generation except as aa it may serve fur a foundation to build upon the development of the abe race the advancement van cement of the people be ban absorber absorb eu ou the energy the benefit of the pioneer period and the coming generation are looking to us lor for a lookis deaoy cy of a liet character see bee how bow they ask for or it in one oi of our remote settlements in this county in a quiet modest farm house a boy of some thirteen summers la is endeavoring alone to study geometry and mechanical drawing and modeling with the aid of some unsuitable tools toole and sud with equally inappropriate ma material the be various farming far minu implements tS that use uee wheels and belting here is in genius assorting asserting his own right to be bc heard in a similar way can be cound with a strong predilection lor for atti autistic artistic drawing and still aalga natural born carver in wood more extended observation will wiil substantiate those these statements ments by bringing otner gitts gifts to light th the relief irona from laborious labo roue pioneer work and undoubtedly ubbe ily has bas brought those these proclivities to jill bt and as time passing passe the IDe benign of our advance schools will still in an increase tog log ratio make manifest that utah pos ones youth with intellectual gli gilts tool oi as high an order older as an any in ID the be world yee yea and still more so for it must not be forgotten fore fora otten that for over fifty years that restless nerve destroying spirit has haa been absent from our people the spirit that has played aoh such havoc lo in deteriorating the nations of the world the struggles for place the depressing anxiety and agony caused by the failures of the staples of life on the contrary there has been peace quie and comfort within our borders the third and fourth generation are now coming fairly upon the scene with mental capacity as an ample as aa any and with intellectual gitts gifts surpassed seu by none with the invigoration coast upon rest how can their career ue other than eminently satisfactory we have the he advantage of building upon a solid foundation we have not the task before us of counteracting what may be termed intellectual warp inga but free from prejudice lull oi of health with sound minds in sound bodies the labor of cultivating the talents of the youth of utah is one ot of which educators may well be proud seeing that so large a percentage ol of solid permanent benefit must follow in 11 conclusions conclusion lot let us hope that the mental and physical energy so lately displayed in political business bue ineas may nut nt n t altogether cease but that it may be transferred to this question now before UP for the well being of our very homes depends upon this matter HENRY HENBY CULLUM |