Show the man for the job by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of men university of illinois IT TT a job for every man someone tins has said but ft a real ulan man for ever job I 1 suppose I 1 give ns as much advice to young out I 1 g men and their pal parents rents na an the lunn luan sometimes when it 1 la asked for and at other times aroff proffered ered gratuitously perhaps in the latter case it Is seldom considered very seriously viere ali ore la is no other subject t upon which counsel ts is sought bought moro more frequently than that which has to do with the choice of a job there are two opinions which are quite generally held by young people with reference to jobs tho the first la Is that practically all the jobs joba in the world aro are taken or will be hakea by tile tho end of the month and that if the young fellow in question does not got get out and af after ter a job at once he be will be left holding the sack this opinion till lias been extant since the spring I 1 graduated from college and possibly possible before that time the other opinion la Is that thero there are good jobs and bad ones that some jobs in themselves offet a straight ind open road to toward ward unquestioned success wint Is a good thing tor for a boy to study for fathers ask me with the idea that there Is some alchemy or open s estime in the job itself and that it does not depend to tiny any large degroo degree upon tile tho man whon when I 1 was a graduate student years ago in an eastern university I 1 clime into contact with a considerable number of men engaged in advanced study who were tio no longer young they lini apparently su so far not done well in tile tho teaching profession they illch lacked od fact enthusiasm personality till an understanding of human value or something of the ho sort that taftt was nece to their getting on and at much sacrifice sac they had given up their poet actions tons in ill order that they might pursue tile lie stud studies leI necessary to the ob mining of nn an advanced degree what impressed mo me was will that most of tile them hall had the idea that the degree degre it self itself was the tall talisman sinan that would bring ig mori heri till all those these qualities tile the lack of which had meant failure for then thein they gave little or no thought to tin development level oil t of their chara rs ra to the cultivation of nn an appealing person aliby cr even to the acquisition 0 of knowledge which might inight in some dent way make them better teachers it mis va 14 only what would help them up ull tile the toward the coveted degraef that tisey they concerned themselves with it wils the job which they kept lr ir ilind anti and not the development of ii n teal inan for the job what most of ua its should co concern n cern ow our selves with la Is not in looking out tor for a jol jet which will offer a sure and easy iipp il roach to affluence affluent ce end distinction but in developing our minds and char celers and personalities to the extent that tile hie job will come after us will always he be a job for the antin who can first prove himself the man for tile job Q 1925 2925 western newspaper union WC your conversation Conver aton |