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Show j ROOM AT THE TOP - The ambitious youth who wants to reach the top should ponder the ten qualifications listed by Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, ' as follows: 1. Health. 2. High energy. 3. Persistence. 4. Thoroughness. 5. High technical training. t 6. Social sense, the ability to get along well with people. 7. Self-knowledge, and self-understanding. ! 8. Adaptability. 9. Willingness to work for a long time at jobs requiring less than one's best abilities. ; 10. A knowledge of local affairs and wide acquaintance- ship with local people. j Continuing Dr. Pitkin says: 'It's important, even though not pleasant, to know that, in terms of mere numbers ; alone, every young worker who has arrived at working age since 1920 would be superfluous in our existing economic ;j system if everybody were to use the latest and best inventions inven-tions and improvements. We have heard much of the youth ' problem! and it is a big problem, one that reaches round the world. Gratifying, however, is the intelligent interest i, business and professional men are taking not only in counselling coun-selling youth but in actively helping them make adjustments. |