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Show Uncommon Sense I By JOHN BLAKE j C Bll Syndlcata-WNTJ 6ervl j I am convinced that every man Is better suited to some particular Job than he Is for any Find the other- Right Job Those whYa 6 J paint or have musical talent and they are rare, have no difficulty picking an occupation. occu-pation. Others often have to hunt around, and many of them do not hunt hard or long enough, and are doomed to do something they do not like, and which on that account they will never do very well-Do well-Do not despair if you are not at first much of a success in anything. One of the best and most successful suc-cessful hankers of my acquaintance began his life as a sailor before the mast. In calm weather he found time to read and study, and deciding wisely wise-ly that not all men were fitted to be ship captains, he gave up the sea, and went to work first as an Insurance salesman, then as a jack leg carpenter, then as a bill collector, col-lector, and failed in all of them. When he was about thirty years old he got a job as janitor In a bank. It wasn't much of a job as far as pay was concerned, but he had to sleep in the place every night, and to pass the time he borrowed some books on banking from one of the tellers. Ten years after that he was president of the bank, and Is now a widely known financier, whose name you would be familiar with If you knew, what It was. I think It Is probably wiser for the overage person to choose the tight job as early as possible If he can find It. But read through "Who's Who" and you will find the names of hundreds hun-dreds of men who have filled many jobs, and most of them Indifferently, Indifferent-ly, before they actually found what their real vocation was. If you have ability and foresight you eventually will discover the kind of work you like best and consequently can fill best. But don't choose It just because It looks easy, or Is from the start a "white collar" job. Be sure that it interests you and will continue to interest you. That being settled, learn everything every-thing that you can possibly learn about it, and after that the going, which will never be easy, will be steady, and bar accidents you will do better In It than In anything else you can do. If you have read about the proceedings pro-ceedings of the recent Scientist's convention you New have been read-Explorers read-Explorers ing a page of an Epic. It Is not written in blank verse, like that of Homer, but to you and me It means more than did that endless battling of the Greek and Trojan army which supplied the theme for the old poet. The business of world exploration Is still being carried on, and is still profoundly Interesting. But It is not nearly so Important at this writing, when both of the polar regions have been mapped and charted, as Is the exploring among the elements of the earth, air and water conducted by men who are continually asking questions of Nature, Na-ture, and continually getting answers an-swers to them. Today the scientist is the most important im-portant man in existence. Working In his secluded laboratory labora-tory he is constantly discovering ways and means to increase the safety, the welfare and the happiness happi-ness of the people on this earth. Without him you would not be reading this newspaper. The scientist by the invention of movable type made its existence possible. He performed the miracle of the X-ray, by means of which the doctor doc-tor can perform what was always considered Impossible till a comparatively com-paratively few short years ngo the miracle of looking through the flesh that pads the human body, straight Into It, so that the doctor can learn quickly and easily what Is the matter with a badly behaving behav-ing human system. I am convinced that from this time forward the bulk of material advancement will be in the hands of the scientists. If the layman could fully understand under-stand what science Is doing today, and what with Improved facilities for research it will achieve, he will give to these men as much credit as has always been given to soldiers sol-diers whose life work is to destroy, not to build. He may Indeed make war so hideous that It will hs abandoned by nations who ought to be glad to get rid of It, for it has done far more harm than good. the scientist could only turn hit attention to politics and to city govern-ments, govern-ments, and to racketeer extermination he would do a still greater work. But to do that he must deal with the hearts and minds of human b |