Show THE AND SORDID PROFIT the county planning board s report said in effect we will have a lot of white collar engineers but got gol darned few carpenters we will be all cluttered up with experts taught academic subjects but who will plaster a house in other words fancy high sounding intelligentsia intelli gensia occupations cupat ions positions but no one with jobs white collars but no overalls DD S s ph drs B S s but no one with the old fashioned title a good workman all our young men going to college to get an education that half of them don t want wont find of use and all being led further and further away from the menial tasks and chores that dad wins the money from to keep youth in college academic learning looks upon mere work as degrading placing one so forced to toil at a lower scale interior inferior the in telli gensia are above that but give them a job on a pay roll and prove to you their superiority but no never will get into the base sordid business world and make a profit not they take wages don t plan on dividends from the buy ing or selling but instead ask for an appropriation out of which wages will be paid to them no thought of earning to invest in a business enterprise from which business enterprise profits will be earned and thus a living secured our trends are away from the common planes of life and away from all sources of living except the people should provide the appropriation our system of education forces the youth to be depend ent up toay twenty four seldom does the graduate from a higher institution of learning get to earning before then and habits of dependence cling so that instead of tackling business with its ups ad downs failures and ruins he takes the steady fasier easier way of swages in a job mostly the graduate wants a position at afancy alfancy salary not a job he feels that he has that it which business men want when as a matter of fact he is an untried experiment on the business man who wants to see him make good before he finds a place for him bricklayers few college grads many useful vocations sparingly taught fancy things taught to profusion who can say where the trend will lead usa and of course no place at home for the grad he must go elsewhere for an opening connect one with a pitchfork handle and it would be as fatal as a short circuit the president of columbia used for any of them has no hesitancy in saying the public should provide the public some way or another can provide it only from profits of that hated thing the profit system it knows of no other way tax funds appropriations bequests were all got from source of profit and thereby contaminated hence intellectual socialism has been bred not the bomb throwing communism which even they hate but the high toned sociology which the intelligentsia intelli gensia are teaching all the youth they have influence over capitalism bah but a state controlled by them tickets to workers themselves in clover yes all youth is educated for leadership there are axe none for the ranks the business man is an inferior man selfish predatory not animated by any high principles a sort of low chap A source of revenue for taxes but not considered in higher circles in continental europe revolutions are born in the caste of army life aristocracy office holders superior to the peasant or producing class and high above tradesmen until finally the yoke is thrown off a new yoke put on and repeat the trend of our education is hardly that which will keep the county youth on the county farm at present work ing on government salary is tops over any other field but the youth or coming adult does not want to go back to the farm or the forge the city what a furore the articles of krivitsky are bringing about in the publications of propaganda and least of all do our brethren the communists like them s idle money money fearful to try the hazards of new investments to take a chance money uncertain of the future all this means idle men eleven million of them industry could put all back to work who wish work if given a chance free from fear of confiscation |