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Show THE HOURS AFTER SUPPER We especially commend the following from the Danville, (III.) Press, to the attention of all young men possessed of ambition am-bition and a desire to amount i to Miuiething in the world, as being tho first great stepping stone towards success: .Most careers tire made or liitinied in the hours after sup- per. ' It may seem to some that the I'i'W hours between supper nnd bedtime afford small opportunity op-portunity for education. Hut ' tliev were sufficient for Lincoln nnd for Franklin and for mill-iuiis mill-iuiis of men who, by turning' thoc hours to advantage through special studies, ad-, viuiced themselves above their, fellows. "Dost thou love life? Thoiij tin not squander time, for hat" i.s tlic stufT life is madu. of." IJpnjnmin Franklin, who said tliiis, not only understood the value of time, but he put a price on it that made others appreciate ap-preciate its worth. Hradstreot's in a summary of business conditions ascribes most business failures to what ,nay he called "tho size of their scrap heaps." Nothing is jit once more inexcusable and disastrous dis-astrous than waste, and the most disastrous waste of alii with the average man is waste, of time. The unused hours form the "scrap heap" thai has vwvekod many a man's ca- reer. That heap of waste which so ninny young men dump at the (,n(l of every day and consider useless would, if rightly used, jrjve priceless results in in-(leiied in-(leiied efiicieney, higher ser vice and better pay. Ambition, resolve, effort, purpose, persistency, persis-tency, confidence, courage, mental equipment, and success .may be manufactured out of this heap of waste time. Mill-jions Mill-jions are doing it. Any man ican who will. i The most important item ,in ' the equipment of tiny establishment establish-ment is men. It avails a manufacturer manu-facturer but little to have perfection per-fection itself in machinery if 'he finds it imposible to get trained minds to control and drive it. Several big coneerm have organized schools in connection con-nection with their plants; others oth-ers have arranged with school boards (o allow students of suitable age to spend part of the time in the shops; many are calling upon correspou deuce schools lo prepare em ploycs for advancement. The strikingly impressive thing about the situation is the opportunity it offers to young men willing to devote spare time to special studies that fit them for particular work. A great employer of skilled labor, lab-or, of office managers and salesmen savs: "There are plenty of $10,000 jobs. The (rouble is to find the $10,000 men." Mnny highly educated people peo-ple are ineflicieut and many efficient ef-ficient people are not highly educated. The world calls for educated people who are elli eient and efficient people who are educated. Most of all is needed education for efiicieney for service. Iteal education is not so much the learning of what we do not know as the doing of what we do not now do. |
