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Show 4 Friday, March TIIE OGDEN POST YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO THINK CLEARLY ' Where Rival to Monte Carlo Will Be Established THE GREATEST Bankers Association President Gives the Five Essentials of Sound Thinking in Business Greater Opportunity Than Ever Before for Young People With Educational Training and Power to Analyze Problems. By CRAIG B. HAZLEWOOD President American Bankers Association ago Michael Pupin, a shepherd boy, ONLY half ahiscentury flocks by night among the fields of Serbia. circumstances and with the same set t condlttona merely accepted theae Business Requires an Open Mind things without once queatlonlns them Becond, among the essentials for Juat because they had always done sound thinking 1 would write down an them that way. open mind. We have mentioned freeThe Land of Education and Succaas ing our minds from the influence of us think also without So a pennlleaa Immigrant boy from tradition. Let of personal prejudice feelings, deSerbia at the age of fifteen landed In or Let us seek sires consequence. New York In 1871 and, years later, reasonr Mere the truth. surface only Coharing worked hts way through discounted. Old can'ta" be must Ing lumbia University, concentrated the must be thrown into the wonder and simplicity of his mind and "don'ts" A man who has an open discard. upon the problem of sound, which mind will do a great many things behad puttied him as a shepherd boy. know they cant be cause doesn't be The results of his thinking what he done. haa accomplished for the long disThe third essential to sound thinktance telephone and for radio commua thorough, comnication by his Inventions are known ing Is knowledge understanding of all the the world over. If during the past prehensive In a problem. It has involved factors twenty-twyears this company had been said most problems answer that Inbeen compelled to do without one when the facts have been vention of Michael Pupln,n an official themselves A well knowfi student and of the American Telephone and Tele- gathered. business describes the of teacher graph Company once said, and yet n.ethod of a problem as tearattacking to-give the same service It Is giving ing It down, reassembling the probday It would have had to spend at lem and drawing the conclusion. least 8100,000,000 mors than It haa exThere can be nothing but guess work pended." or Intuition unless the unknown quanThese Inventions, In which millions tities are discovered. of dollars of capital have been InvestAs a fourth essential sound thinked, were the result of the thinking of ing requires the capacity to generala mere country lad who had the sim- ise. How often we have seen man plicity to wonder, the determination sweating and contused before a mass to know and the power to apply what of details which they were utterly unhe learned. able to classify and crystallise. We Stimulating the Imagination and hare the problem of sorting ont the thinking Is the greatest purpose of ed- relevant, attaining a perspective and What American business reaching a conclusion that can be deucation. needs more than anything else Is fended against any attack. To ceryoung men and women to think Indi- tain minds this procedure comes natuviduals who are not mentally anchored rally; to others training in the soluto tradition, who do not merely appro- tion of complicated problems points priate other people's ideas, but who the way out are hard, purposeful thinkers, indeThe Time for Action Fifth among the essentials of sound pendent and unprejudiced, with the ability to concentrate and strike thinking is the power to apply. A few individuals have minds that travel at straight for the heart of a problem. random or In circles. Some have Business Needs Folk Who Think minds that even refuse to budge. But America has astounded the world by there are still others who naturally or Its readiness In casting aside traditraining have minds that can tional viewpoints, disregarding tradi- through be directed straight through to the tional difficulties and pioneering new of their thoughts. application practical shortcut formulas In the realm of to compromise or to be refuse They business. Business Is undergoing thwarted In purpose before definite epochal changes. of their Ideas has been Business problems are crowding In application achieved. upon us so rapidly that the executive It Is possible, I believe, for young knows not where to look for adequate to train themselves to an Inhelp or relief. With the enormous In' people crease In else and Intricacy of bust quisitive attitude, an open mind and ness affairs the problems have become the ability to classify and interpret from the beginso complicated and thqmass of Infor- material step by step to its final solution a of problem ning mation necessary to their solution so and application. Here, then. Is the great that the days are not long would leave the paramount I thought enough." The demand for managerla need of business Is sound thinking. and executive ability Is rushing aheat I hare overstated the Some think may ant the opportunity for young men case, have set too high a standard.' women who have the professional may feel that they are merely They training and who develop genuine In a machine. That, too, Is a cogs thinking power Is greater than ever. of the The only way to part same All business feels the crying solve that isproblem. find time and place In to need for the men who see clearly and think conclusively. Wherever we look the day's work for thinking. manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, banking, financing new forces SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKare at work. Vast movements are nn ING MOVEMENT REACHES der way and executives are seeking IMPRESSIVE PROPORTIONS light upon perplexing problems dally. esfive Let us consider briefly the Almost 14.000 of Americas schools sentials of a sound thinker. If I were looking for a young man of exception' now have school savings banking al promise I should hope, first, to find plans In operation, and about four In him the simplicity to wonder. Ev million pupils are learning systematic cry great advancement In business savings through this type of thrift, has been made by men who dared to with deposits In excess of 826.000.000, wonder, who had the courage to In recent reports of the American Bankquire Into present procedure and who ers Associations Savings Bank Divihad the audacity to ask whether some- sion show. Tbs schools Included in thing that had been done a certain the reports are attended by 4.609.825 way for a long time might not be pupils, of whom 8.880,237 art particiwrong. Although the history of Amer- pants In the school savings hanking icas progress from its very discovery plans as depositors. Daring tbs year to the present time has shown the these pupils received Interest In the value of an Inquiring mind, there Is amount of 8947,610 on their deposits. still an inevitable tendency in most Tbs reports gathered by the associmen to accept In a docile manner the ation also show that there are 88 citopinions, methods, supposed facts, ies in the United States in which a procedures and processes of the pssL full 100 per cent of the grammar With due reverence to the effort, the school enrollment Is participating In spirit, the accomplishments of the school savings hanking. The figures past, let us make It our rule that ev- covering high schools show tbit In 47 erything be looked at with the clear cities 100 per cent of the attendance in this class are school savers. questioning mind of the scientist Elsie Wheelwright Wins High School Oratorical Contest (Continued from page 1.) DEMAND OF AMERICAN DUSINESS Thieves often lurked in the bordering cornfields awaiting an opportunity to make oif with a part of the herd. Serbian boys were taught a method of signalling one another for warning and help. Each carried a knife with a long wooden handle which he would thrust deep into the ground and in case cattle thieves approached he would strike the wooden handle. The sound would be transmitted through the ground to other boys some distance away who could hear and interpret the message. Why is it Pupin asked his mother, that we can signal this way ? Why is it the sound can be heard through the ground, but not through the air? Why is it the signals can be heard in the pasture land so much better than in the plowed fields? The boy's mother could not answer his questions, nor could the village teacher. However, having an eager mind and great dethe termination, boy decided to go to America, where he might win an education and find out the answers to these and other perplexing questions. Hundreds of other boys under the same 8. A new gaming paradise, rivaling Monte Carlo, Is to ba established In the smallest and oldest republic In the world this coming summer. It will be in Andorra, located In the mountains on the boundary line between France and Spain. A French syndicate will build the gambling casino, hotels, golf course, tennis courts and cafes. Above Is a scene In Andorra. Race From Arctic Snows to Tropic Waters 4-o- lesson. There are mothers who living and teaching it One mother taught it to her im Theodore Roosevelt, the boy, who grew to manhood with the picture of loyii. ty and patriotism always before him became the president of this greet im tion. He was a great warrior, but he was more besides; he was a d lomat and a student of history atf His influence was felt m science. only in this country, but in all the He believed sincerely end eb. world. solutely in his country, in the prie. ciples of truth, loyalty and freedo With upon which it was founded. pride we may place you in the field of blue, Theodore Roosevelt. You are a great star, but there an many smaller stars that do their bit in howevyr small a way to serve their country. In the hospitals and on the battle field, the touch of a soft hand and the sound of a quiet voice hu led many soldiers back from the val An angel h ley of the ahadowa. white haa learned the lesson of loj. alty and self sacrifice a nurse! The her light be small, her star thinet among the rest. She will stand aide by aide with As. drew Carnegie, the great philanthrap. 1st, the man who more than any other man of modern times haa turned the It wu world toward Itigh ideals. his wish to make a world whereh every one should be kind and nobh His life is the romance of a man vfco node money without losing his dream, of one who in making a fortune lor himself, made a fortune for others m welL But because Carnegie was il. ways so much the dreamer it is i pity to lay stress on hit money-nu- b ing ability. He devoted his weslft to the good of humanity. He hoi libraries and a peace palace; he Never vu tablished hero funds. there a more astonishing man or t man with a greater love for his men! Patriotism, loyalty! h what better way could one serve one'i country than by serving ones felloi men? Carnegie, you, too, have i Id-lo- place! By the aide of this server of na is another equally as great a d reuse whose dreams have come true a mu who brought song, music, jest surf laughter to all the lonely places d the earth through his invention of the phonograph. Thomas A. Edison hit seen the world benefited in busires and pleasure by more than a He neve of his inventions. learned how to live idly or to keep in a rut Even now in hia old if Edison finds that hia greatest pleasure still lies in service to others. Robert A. Milliken and Albert 1 Michelson live in the same world witt Edison. They too. are searchers new fields for the betterment of tk lives of their fellow men. Millike invented a way to measure the infinitely small; Michelson a way to measure the infinitely large. Althont both of these men are great scholia men who will write their lives ia i blue field to be remembered alwip. they are entirely human as you ad I. They live their useful, predial lives, seeking knowledge to bereft the world. patriots These men are peace-tim- e but we have war-tim- e patriots, a well. John J. Pershing is one of tk greatest of these. In 1917 hsviq been made a temporary general i the United States, he was sent sens the .sea to where a great war vs raging. Like the Little Corponl The Napoleon of France, General P ahing went up and down the line, 9 peared at the hospitals, on the bab fie field, and in the mens quartern cheering and encouraging them. When Europe would have had tk American soldiers serving with tk British and French, Pershing vrook not agree because he knew that tk Americans could fight as well were as ably commanded as tk French or English; bo he built np tk army that showed all Europe whatt could do. When the Armistice s signed the American army was hok ing more front line trench than tk British and almost at much as tk French. Pershing had helped to 2,000,000 men the meaning loyalty and had led them along road of service to file blue field of P triotism. In this same war there was snotk? man who also was a soldier, hot uniform was white and instead taking life he was saving it All 9 time was given to the grim, ten: figures which came in endless P1 cessions. In any other period ofJ they would have died, would have Wh glad to die rather than live in tore. Over them there bent a man white, a young man, alert, keen-e- j Dr. Alex CarreL Long before the vfl he made himself famous. During tk war he made himself loved. The work of physicians and i geons represents the kindliest mou that move mankind. Why not ' monuments for these men who saviors of life as well as to the querours who, for the most part, destroyers of life. In the blue canopy of heaven are large stars and small stars; hflT stars and dim stars, but it takes of them to make a sky. In theM field of patriotism, whether as P dent, as nurse, as idealist, invB scientist, teacher, or mother, opj tunities for unlimited service to great country are offered, and he serves most, serves best! Hu H thos-san- o Starting on toboggans from the mountain slopes of Loa Angeles County park and terminating with a dip into the aemltroplc pool at Arrowhead Hot Springs, youthful Los Angeles couples staged a unique race. An hour and four minutes after they had left the snowy mountains, the winners were stripping off fnrry garments underneath which they wore bathing suits, and were plunging Into the warm pool In the valley below. The photograph shows some of the starters, and bliss Joyxelle Joynler of the winning team In the pool Vice President in His New Home EDUCATION CHIEF New portrait of Dr. William J. Cooper who recently took the oath of office as United States commissioner of education to succeed John J. Tlgert, resigned. An Intimate photograph of Tice President Charles Curtis, made In his new apartment at the Mayflower hotel In Washington. REFORMED BY SURGERY The Flight That Failed hi iieSara,' "Little Alpine," plane at Miami for plane, once she was beam at somewhere ' whose hobby, unfortunately. Is flying, climbing Into a the "flight that failed" for the simple reason that the In, wouldn't budge. The young lady tips the quivering above 700 pounds. fc tea-ov- -- Arthur Emery of New Philadelphia, Ohio, until few weeks ago was a stolid, slow wltted boy, whose hands could not resist an opportunity to pilfer anything that came within is the brightest. range of his vision. Now Arthur is a normal boy of fifteen, energetic both Beauty in Benovoltm mentally and physically, and with no Dow easy It is for out hem desire to steaL An abscess was reto diffuse pleasure around moved from the lad's brain after being and how truly Is a kind heart a physicians had testified that an ab- tain of gladness making everyi normal brain condition was at least Its vicinity to freshen Into s partinlly responsible for his criminal Irving. tendency. CTTEnggisruTrurwgwafp r? |