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Show THE COLLEGE OF EXPERIENCE Many large industries are today offering a bptter course of business training for young people than colleges col-leges and professional schools. As an illustration the Southern Pacific Co. is offering, a course of training to boys between the ages of 16 and 22. At all of its principal shops th" company maintains schools under the direction of competent instructors, instruc-tors, where your boy may secure a four years' course of instruction the will thoroughly fit him for work as a mechanic, electrician, boilermaker, cabinet maker, blacksmith, pattern maker, molder, or in any of the principal mechanical trades found in a well developed railroad shop. While he is undergoing instruction they will pay him a salary ranging from 15c per hour to 27 c per hour, and at the completion of his course will give him a diploma entitling him to consideration as a journeyman . at any shop and will immediately advance ad-vance him to the position of full fledged mechanic with the standard rate of pay of the craft for which he has fitted himself. This is practical assistance to young men starting out in life and should be given serious thought by parents considering future training for their sons. Any Southern Pacific agent will give information. The average college turns a boy out at the end of four years looking for a job. This college of actual experience ex-perience tur-ns a hoy out with money in his pocket and a position waiting for him. : |