WHAT TO DO WITH OUR BOYS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7981, 6 May 1904, Page 4

WHAT TO DO WITH OUR BOYS.

TKe Glasgow Evening News in a refcent article said :— •" In his address of welcome to the Master Painters of Scotland, whose Association held their annual meetings in Glasgow recently, I^ord Provost Primrose took occasion to give some words of admirable advice bearing \ipon that perennial and perplexing problem — What to do with out boys. Sir John was led to reflect on the fact that the ranks of clerks, were being abnorm. ally recruited every year. It was, he said, a calling that only brought the most insignificant return, and he was sorry to say that it was becau.se it was considered a genteel profession. He regretted that the youth of the land did not more foresee — though he was thankful they were beginning to foresee — that in honest tradesmanship there Was a magnificent career before them. Everyone familiar with commercial life will heartily endorse these sentiments. It is true that to a bright youth with brains and an aptitude lor finance, the stamp-box and the copying press may furnish the initial leverage that will rise a brilliant and prosperous career'; a really good clerk does not, as a rule, remain long a clerk ; but it was of the profession as a whole that Sir John Was speaking. There are thousands of men leaning over ledgers to-day who lack either the ability or the will to prove themselves capable of ris ng above the level of the mechanical drudgery of ordinary oflice-worfc. Far be it from us to belittle such work, which is as essential to the successful working of the commercial machine as any part of it. But there are far too many clerks ; hence the law di supply and demand keeps salaries at a low level, and many of these men would be much more comfortably circumstanced if they followed a trade. Unquestionably, the false and mischievous notion of ' gentility ' has a good deal to do with the tendency which the Lord Provost deplored. In the old days the scrivener was a person of some importance in the community, but the School Board and Sir Isaac Pitman, have changed all that. The educational authorities in recent years have come to recognise that the three R's did not comprise the total sum of learning, and so we* have education developing on Technical lines. Technical education has certainly 'done: much for the craftsman, ami may be expected to do more, but it has not yet teMJgm^^^ tarfog

which a great many worthy people have set up against * the common tradesman.' The wise parent and guardian, in selecting a career for his young charges, will always, of course, be guided by their individual ability and temperament. But, speaking "generally, it would be infinitely better for thousands of youths if they were apprenticed to a trade in preference to being sent to the genteel drudgery of the countiMg-houso, and reminders such as the Lord. Provost gave of this fact cannot be given too often."

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IMPAIBEn DIGESTION.

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RANGES!! RANGES!!

Scott Bros.' Record Ranges took first prize and gold medal at the Hawera Exhibition. The competition was 3 sever 6 one, there being five exhibitors from all parts of New Zealand. Architects, builders, and the general public should inspect the recent improvements in Scott'B ranges, fitted with copper side and corrugated high-pressure boilers. All 6izes and prices. Call and inspect at F. J. Wriglfiy's, Ejgh street, Uawera.