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Show SCIIOOL TO JOB Life sometimes runs along in a rut with little change It is like driving an automobile through level prorie of desert land, when each mile seems like the one you left behind. Then you may run into rough country, with sharp curves and steep hills, so that frequently you can't see 100 yards ahead. This is like the change that comes in life, as people have to adjust themselves to unfamiliar circumstances and solve new problems. One of these marked changes occur when young people reach the end of their school and college careers, 'and have to plunge into the world of work. That pluno-e' is likelv to he Yv 0 n t r irtVirt 1 1 j """ juuo die avail able, than is was when many graduates dropped down into the vacancy of unemployment. Even though the youth is mighty happy to land a job, he has to meet conditions different from those of schoolastic life. In school or college the teaching and otticial force were there to help him. They lifted him over many hard spots. In the working world, the novice is there to help the boss and all who are over and around him, instead of the boss and the rest of the people being there to he p him he should not expect the same amount of help that he found in the class room. He is in competition com-petition with its rivals and associates. If he shows any inferiority, he may be thrown out. So it is a bit of a shock when the youth- runs up ao-ainst the hard facts of md hJ the kind y and agreeable years of school and college. I he world has a way, in spite b its coldness, of recognizing re-cognizing honest work and patient effort. The hills bnrT;?i d6i 1 Climb than those of education, but those who work hard can usually climb them |