Show TRADES TO YOUNG MEN AND THEIR PARENTS I 1 the scarcity of certain kinds of mechanics is beginning to be felt among us and unless the want ant be met will be more deeply felt as our community increases crea ses aes the influx of mechanic mechanics swit with b the immigration is not enough to meet I 1 the demand and numbers commence working at trades with which they were totally unacquainted before they came here the result Is workmanship t of an inferior quality i for which in most instances the highest price has to be paid these workers thinking themselves entitled to as much pay as good tood practical workmen in the same branches of trade on the other othor hand there is isa a great number of growing boys and young 0 men meni who as agriculture has been the principle occupation of our people in this territory are expert work vork workers ears Lars at all kinds of farm labor know how to take care ewe of stocky sand and can ride horses as wild as ever came off the range yet they understand but little if anything of those thosa mechanical kinds of labor the want of which i is beginning to be felt would it not be better policy for the labor of our young men and boys as they grow up to be more divided than at present farmers are needed and will continue to be needed but blacksmiths carpenters painters and a host of other trades are and will be needed as well and it does seem that it would be better policy and wiser to have some more of the tho boys learn those trades than to have so many of them engaged enga a ed in farming teaming and similar occupations ff the tastes and predilections of boys as well as of men differ and the peculiar far lar beni benl bent of the mind will manifest itself at an early age by carefully watching the developing inclination inell atlon of the child it will in what direction that inclination tend tends sand and to gare pare carefully foster it so that it may develop devel dp it self is to secure excellence in that pr nicular branch of labor to which the talents and ts t tastes s tes of the growing youth are directed one boy will whittle sticks into certain forms manifesting taste and design and if that inclination is fostered may in after life excel as a worker in wood another will draw lines or build little houses which manifest incipient talen wor Vor for future gre atness as an architect or builder thise these are the straws straws which show the th direction in which the wind blows aad wise parents will study their course course for the future prosperity of their children we need skilled workmen very much in in various various I 1 departments of mechanical labor AV we e are likely to need them hore more more unless a larger number of our young men are taught to work in those various branches we need good clerks and bookkeepers book keepers we say good clerks not men who can simply write Vr ltee itee a good hand but men meen who are well trained in bookkeeping book keeping they are really scarce scarce searce I 1 though there are plenty willing M to to I 1 offer themselves for the purpose if our young men will study their own anclin ings and learn as they desire to be good bookkeepers book keepers good cabinetmakers cabinet makers joiners blacksmiths builders painters kec ac fec they will be a greater blessing than now to the jhb community and a still greater blessing to themselves and their families even if in afterlife after life ilfe some of them may not have to actually toll at the occupations cupat ions they have havo learned it will be of vast benefit to them as citizens and in their business transactions and relations with mechanics A trade is easily carried and costa costs the carrier nothing in either toil toll or means for bearing it aboul while the benefits arising from having it are incalculable we would urge more of our young men to learn trades they will be none the poorer but all the richer for it node none the worse but all the better physically and morally for the hands that are employed in useful labor are less liable to belong to a mind that follows evil ovll thoughts than those that wat are am not BO so well and wisely occupied |