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Show be the circumstances that keep children of superior abilities from reaching the heights their native talents could help them attain. There la no chance of this nation ever becoming a country of socially social-ly unfit If education and care are assured alfke for rich and poor, And in large measure our educational educa-tional system and the American standard of living do just that. For the sons of the poor who are determined to achieve, being born Iji poverty is a cnallenge. Rockefeller was one of those who determined to -rise and fought the harder for his opportunities. As he says he came "with the determination to do something in this world." o OPPORTUNITIES IN DEMOCRACY "Sons of wealthy parents have not a ghost of a chance, compared compar-ed with the boys who come from the oountry with the determination determina-tion to do something in this world". John D. Rockefeller. This bit of philosophy from a man who acquired and was mas- ter of millions is widely acceptable accept-able to us as Americans because It is obviously democratic. Our nation, founded on trie principal that all men are created qual, U filled with persons who enjoy being told that circumstances of birth do not limit the economic or social heights to which one may attain. More than likely Rockefeller was speaking from his personal experience In rising single sin-gle handed to a financial rank never achieved by any other man. There are examples of many other oth-er "self-made" Americans, end lately scientists have come forward for-ward to show why they believe that many other factors besides heredity are influential in producing produc-ing individuals of superior abilities. abili-ties. Intelligence tests of English children made by Drs. Qray and Moshlnsky indicate that only a third of their top thousand subjects sub-jects came from the upper social and professional classes. This suggests sug-gests that undernourishment, bad housing, lack of educational and economic opportunity and dozens doz-ens of environmental factors may |