Show M tl u ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRA TRAIL IL n By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK nen he of 0 Situ Aba of ot WORK OR Oil STUDY v vA A writer recently took Issue with willi me on something I had written concerning con can fling el-fling a 8 young oung fellows fellow's working hl his hi way through college In which he said sal l that 1 lend Imd tried to dissuade men mn from trying to work their way my through college He lie mistakes m my point of f stew Jew If Ifa Ifa f fo a o young fellow of good rood h health mid and mida a Ability really wants a n college education and ond con can get It only through his own efforts I have always urged him to go sliced ahead mid and make the best of the situation That was what I did Throughout my college col cob lege course I hind had no tm help from home and ond I have e nc never ne cr regretted the effort It took to support myself at the same time that I 1 was doing college work But Dut at best that Is a makeshift One q J gains something I 1 admit b. by b working his way through college but buthe buthe buthe he gains nothing which he may moy not acquire after leaving college while the opportunity to read and stud study I under guidance comes comes to him only while ho Is In la college My Sly critic sa says sas s that All school his lute history history tory has hlll conclusively i proved pro ro e l that the themen themen men mn who e have be been bem i forced to work wort while they studied have ho come out he best hest t knowing how v to 10 tight light the battle I Irne e have rn known 1110 thou thousands ands of men who have attempted to work their way WilY through college and th the r sad flung L about It Is how now large a percentage 01 of II them fall This is not n a matter mutter ol of opinion It Ii is n matter of If college re reI It 1 Is b true trim that many men who wh lime III w worked their way through col college 01 lose lege have ha In later Inter life succeeded ad not not because of this flits fuel fact howe however r I 1 nm mint but In spite of ot It It Just ns as the great Lincoln sue sue- seeded In spite of having hn no formal education anti and not because of It College Is not ns us my critic alleges merely a preparation for life It is life Itself and life which at Its bes best I Ithe Is the mo must most t serious and the thc most pregnant pregnant preg preg- nant Intellectual which the young person will er e ex ex- fit 1111 Itta rn Union t |