Show DRAW INSPIRATION FROM FROl TillS THIS oo 00 oot t Asked to offer his suggestions as to what young people should strive for in order order order or or- der to fit themselves of responsible responsible responsible ible positions in public and business business business busi busi- ness life one of our greatest national industrial leaders and students of human nature drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing from his fund of knowledge knowledge knowledge know know- ledge gained through sixty years of study and contact with persons persons persons per per- sons in to every walk of life and every country says Business geniuses like men in in statesmanship are not taught They are are creat creat- I ed Every man man of great achievements achievements achieve achieve- ments carries very far anything which he ever learned except in the hard school of experience experience ex ex- added to Heaven-given Heaven endowments Th UTh average teacher preacher preach preach- er writer fo fa theses college professors professors pro pro- and thousands of men who are ready to tell twenty oth others rs what were good to be bedone bedone bedone done are as A d rule pigmies in comparison with such men as Lincoln Mussolini or other men of great industrial achievements like Rockefeller Ford etc They were not taught nor given an any rule of procedure nor did they follow a a chart With their Heaven given endowments they blazed their own trail and immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately stepped steppe into an arena unaided by any ny writer of formulas form form- ulas The Th stride of such men and ther accomplishments are beyond beyond beyond be be- yond the reach and quite transcend transcend transcend tran tran- the imagination of those whose function in life isto teach how such things show be done The men who become great leaders and rise to the heights were not taught what they should do or how they should do it nor in most cases did they start with any conception of f their own future They started to make the best of their endowments en en- and then a personal conscience seizing and and indefatigable work did the rest No man ever did much work by any mechanical chart or depended upon what upon That he heas was ivas I taught ether in lit school or or from the pulpit The successful young man of giving heed to mechanical mechanical mechanical ical and formulated dIr directions is working out h his s problems and he only succeeds by going further and accomplishing more than han anybody wha who has ever preceded preceded preceded pre pre- ceded him in a like field of en en- deavor The or writer of theses is limited in his sphere b by what he has learned of what has gone before Qualifications are endowments endowments endowments endow endow- ments and they cannot be taught Qualifications tiong are the very foundation of every great life and no na teacher can create qualifications I 11 1 think the experience of all allmen allmen men who have accomplished much is that whenever a teacher teacher teach er er or advisor intervenes with ith lessons as aa to how they thep should accomplish t their task or whether er they should undertake their task at all the result has been a weakening not a strength and to the extent to which such counsels counsels counsels coun coun- sels were heeded inspired work was chilled and measurably par par- |