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Show Tlie Younu Mao from College. Collogo bred yoimg men are without exierience on tlio practical side of life. The pusliing, alert business man la not particularly impressed with tho value of a college degree in forecasting tho market mar-ket or determining tho value of "job lots," because be knows business is not a theorv at all, but a hard fact. Then, too, collegians often givo themselves superior su-perior aim, which do not go down with their associates, tho majority of whom have received houorablo ' scars tn their tight with circumstances, aud bavo littlo tenderness for carpet knights. Moreover, More-over, the impressionablo and formative period of llt'o having been epont ui tho sclvvd room, they have not acquired that alertness, that power to grasp a business Hitunt ion or problem and instantly solve it. Nothing in their school book taught them tho ""shrewd, watchful readiness competition makes necessary. Take tlio voiuig fellow who left school ,13 soon as be h:d mastered the- rulo of three, and entered upon tho struggle for ex intent -p. His mind was oien to all impressions bo learned business without with-out knowing he was learning, aa a child learns to talk. He baa formed business habits unconsciously. Ilia mind was molded to alertness, rapidity of thought, promptitude of action, tho requirements of butshici-s chnr.u tor. Let us illustrate. Take a litllo fellow of 8 or t) years, brought up in a well regulated home, and place liim beside tho street Arab, bootblack or newsboy. On tho score of mental activity and practical knowledge aud shrewdness, tbo latter will run him to cover in two minutes. Does not some such dillercr.ee exist between tlio educated edu-cated voting man aud tlio ono to whom busiiuV:-. ha; Wen a matter of daily life since er.iiv vouth. which makc3 employers employ-ers proi-Vio 1-tter'f Baldwin's Toxtilo Deiivuer. |