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Show . v - Ik, - h.. ti.i n m Jt.,i. zi 2..B,ICB. college to train for the professions medicine, law, teaching, or engineering. en-gineering. Statistics over the past years show that only about seven per cent of our high school graduates gradu-ates are ultimately successful in these fields. What happens to the ninety-three ninety-three per cent? Most of the girls, About thirty-five years ago a facetious wag remarked, "This is the time of the year when the high school graduate gees to work for the guy who quit school before be-fore he finished the eighth grade." This "crack" came to mind while perusing the daily papers, and observing ob-serving the lists of hundreds of boys and girls who are just now completing twelve years of formal school work. The above "quote" was perhaps never more untrue than it is today. to-day. Our specialized and complicated compli-cated modern way of life has seen to that. It takes much more than ambition and the willingness to work, in order to succeed these days. With the expansion of the Machine Age, has come a great era of industrial development, in which "common labor" has almost ceased to play a part. High school graduates and their parents are now confronted with an extremely important question, "What after high school"? Basically Basic-ally there are but three alternativesgo alterna-tivesgo to work, get married, or go back to school for additional education. Happily a combination of these three choices may sometimes some-times be worked out; but further training especially for the boys should always be a part of the after-high school program. Of course university training is not for every high school graduate. grad-uate. Fundamentally, people go to 1 and fortunately so, become mothers moth-ers and homemakers.. A few boys go into agriculture. Practically all the rest will go into services and industry. v - Such being the case, the role of the specialized school becomes increasingly important. Trade schools, apprenticeships, vocational vocation-al schools and business colleges are fast becoming the choice of a goodly number of high school graduates; and rightfully too. This column is proud of the hundreds hun-dreds of Utah's young folks, who are completing the first phase of thoir preparation for a happy and successful life. We congratulate them; and extend our thanks to their parents and teachers for a job well done. We earnestly hope that the decisions, de-cisions, which must of necessity be made soon, will be the result of thoughtful consideration of all the factors which bear on the case. Every normal boy or girl can be successful if he or she finds the right vocation. To find it and prepare for it is the important thing right now. So long 'til Friday. |