Show SELF DIRECTION by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of men Um verity of IIIi noi cantner was standing in front of the old house in which ht Is living when I 1 drove by this morning he Is rather a broken old man now making an tain living bv ed his products from door 0 o door I 1 recall aliat when I 1 waa a young fellow he bad the best shop of its kind in town and we thought was due to become one of the ell todo to do catl zens of town he biad teamed his trade early he had shown more than commonplace talent in it and when be was twenty five or so had started an independent business of own lie was n excellent worker he knew his particular trade and when work ing for some one ele no one was bet ter but he could not manage himself ue had no business sense no powers of self direction and whatever he un dercook ended in failure he tried first one thing an 1 then an other but only when he was under the direction of some one else did he accomplish com anything worth while had n ei learned the power of self he had to lave a manager or n boss to bring out the best that was in him if he haa been married it might have been different but cantner remained a bachelor and so missed the chance of having a regular mau ager there Is no telling how many of us have been saved by marriage cross knew a good deal about en gi in fact in college it looked as if he might become a really out standing engineer lit had no the however could follow diorec alons admirably if a piece of vork were mapped out for him he would carry I 1 out to the last detail it was when he was left to his own devices that he got into difficulty when there was no one to give him directions be lost uncertain binef he found it difficult to set himself to work it seemed impossible for him to institute anything new or out of the ordinary routine so long as he had a job under the supervision of another man things went well with him but put him upon ids own resources and he was ue knew how to obey but he had no understanding of how to command either himself or others UP has been out of college twenty years and Is little furt lier along the road to success than when he started mrs gates has been telling me what a fine boy she has 11 got out of high school a year ago and ever since has had a good job ills boss has said all sorts of commendatory things about lie bo and his mother thinks he will make everyone sit up and take notice when he gets into college it anny be so young gates has never directed him self ills tasks have far been set for him ue has been called in the morning by his mother he has done during the day what has been laoj out for him hen he gets to college he will have t be self directing and that Is an entirely different story hi watern union |