| OCR Text |
Show PREPARE FOR LEADERSHIP rp HOUSANDS of our best trained J- young men and women have responded re-sponded to their country's call, for which we thank God and take courage. But who will take their places if they fall? There will be men in abundance to fight in the trenches, but there will be a dearth of officers, engineers and men of scientific knowledge and skill in all the industries, in transportation, 1 and in many other places where skill and daring are just as necessary as in the trenches." 'The departure of these men, whether it be for a time only or for all time leaves the necessity for new thinkers and workers to take their places, and it is in the schools and colleges of the land . that this training is being given in working and thinking. In the class rooms and the workshops of the nation's na-tion's schools are now the men who are to become the leaders and directors of the future, consequently the need of the hour is to enlist every student who can possibly be enrolled to take up the training of the college or school which can best give him the equipment which will fit him to serve his nation by leading lead-ing and directing others. Statistics show that the 350,000 students stu-dents in colleges, normal, technical and vocational schools of high grade constitute con-stitute only about one-haif of one per cent of the population, and that the continuance of this number of , young people in college cannot lower the productive pro-ductive capacity of the country to any appreciable degree. On the other hand, the need of trained leadership is so great that every effort should be made to increase the percentage of those who take training for such leadership. Santa Paula (Cal.) Chronicle. |
