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Show CHOOSING A TRADE . Selecting Selectmg a trade or occupation today is a lather iather lathermore iathermore lathermore more serious matter than in yeais yeals gone by , owing to the therapid therapid therapid rapid changes in methods of manufacture and in the theproducts theproducts theproducts products demanded by the public . knowhow In hardly any line lme of manufa manufacture ure does one know how allhis soon some new method or orprocess or process may render all hIS present skill useless as a means of gaining gammg a lIvelIhood . Highly livelihood.Highly livelihoodHighly skilled hand craftsmen in many lines hnes are continually contin contIn- contInI contInually continually - I ually being bemg leplaced replaced by machinely machmelY machineiy , while products which whichwere whichwere 1 j 1were whichj were formerly in III great demand are rapidly rapldly becoming ob- ob obf obi obsoete obsolete ob obsolete - - f i solete soete ] , such as the buggy and other horse-drawn horse drawn - vehicles . " ; . ) E.W EW Speaking Speakmg from the manufacturer's manufacturers ' ' ' standpoint , E . , 'V V W ' . McCuUough McCullough of the United States Chamber of Com Com- Corn- Corn Cornmerce ComJ Commerce Commerce - , J merce hundredlines recently said : "I I " could ennumerate a hundred linesj lines of business this evolution has wiped out , and lines lineswithout 1 j without construction number have changed in materials , construc construc- - - . tion and form . " The These e changes have affected the individual work work- workmen workmen . - . men changesmade , as wellas well as their employers , and never were changes ; made so rapidly as at present . Those who enter the theI themechanical I mechanical trades today must be prepared to adapt them them- themselves thems themselves - ! . selves s to new conditions as they theyjirise arise . |