| Show top MANY WHITE COLLAR MEN HEN we are arc educating 90 per cent of our youths to be white collar workers but have waite collar jobs tor for only 10 per cent we ve know something about what all at overproduction uc f leads to iq in wheat and ald in in other products we are soon to learn what it means in in a mass of human I 1 uman beings wrongly prepared for doing their pran part n the worlds work ta 6 its benefit f it and 1 being be ing this is bilat wh at cek for bricklayers means the price I 1 paid at waumega waukegan Wauk kegan ega n ill in se P adf an 4 the ale ex excellent wages nov paid to 0 other 1 her skilled craftsmen which fat far jacee d the hp balanes S 11 rie paid IP ald to cleres cler ls and b sook ook C C par r lf reward is sure to increase rapid growth bf the y A white collar army and the fast grow ing ing demand for men who work with hands that are skilled our industries clamor for the trained rained worker but our schools continue to turn out thousands upon thousands of young men and women fitted only for already overcrowded over cr crowded owned professions many different reasons are assigned by historians for the fall of the roman empire rome however did not fall until the romans grew too proud to labor Neit neither lier chyi physically 1 cally morally no nor economically can any white collar nation long endure afthim at abit moment there is nothing that would help many of a too emarl smart to work generation more than khan a little judicious adversity if they do not get it those who do will in about 25 years inherit the earth and the falness thereof and take their full share of things having earned it by a servi service e of which the world was in need adversity is a great teacher the fibre fabre stability soundness of american life depends on establishing the dignity of labor not as a copybook maxim but as a national habit of mind progress prosperity and world markets are not for white collar nations when restored europe again settles down to work her myriad skilled workers will put no soft sort of competition for these united states if we are to hold our place in in world commerce we shall have to roll up our sleeves overcome our aversion to soiling our lands hands and learn again again the blessedness tile the health the joy of productive labor in III this process of acquiring a better balanced education we shall do 1 0 much to eliminate the round pegs in in the square holes the wasted lives the thousands of failures the men MCI who get nowhere whose lives seem futile all and largely because they have not found their proper work or because they are struggling in an 0 overcrowded over ver crowded field in which the competition a all 11 about them is so keen that it destroys or impoverishes those who w ho cannot obtain a foothold in these overpopulated over populated ranks of white collar workers we must educate hand as well ai as head as theodore roosevelt foresaw and warned us as far back as IS 15 years y cars ago we need this kind of upbringing for all manner of reasons reasons it builds character as well as self reliant ind independence de n ce rail sp it agn fann farming ing and blacks S tone stone ga gave ve Us its a lincoln farming and e us a gashnig ton the printers trade gave us a franklin and a whitman telegraphy gave us arf an edison knowledge acquired in a machine shop gave us the wright brothers and the air airplane ranching and life in the open spaces made roosevelt a strong man instead filstead of a weakling this list might easily be further extended but these examples of the origin and early training of great americans carries its own ovin object lesson nearly all if not all of our men of achievement came from a sch school 0 of which educated mind heart and hand the dignity of labor is no empty phrase it is the expression of a great truth A trade vocational training for foi all is tile the complement of a balanced education without such training for its citi ziles the united states cannot maintain its traditions its national health nor ats its place in the world we are arc beginning to see it and none too soon ARTHUR CAPPER washington D C |
