Show I 1 MORE FIELDS TO EXPLORE we have heard a great low notes sung of late years concerning the future of our youth and especially our college graduates the humorists have poked gentle fun at the boy with a university diploma taking a job at the corner filling station although there is of course nothing ludicrous about earnest and honest work we have been told that there is no future for the youngster even him with a good education because our frontiers have all been explored and our vacant spaces filled up nothing is left therefore but a gradual decadence of the american America ii nation this to be sure is the doctrine of tile the pessimist and of his socialist brother who thinks that it is now the duty of the government to take care of everybody and assure him a living but it is not the conviction of the honest to good ness american who still has faith in the old maxims about thrift personal ambition and sound thinking it is interesting to note what william allen alien white the kansas publicist in a recent address to the graduating class ati at indiana university said about the joe college of the graduating class of 1939 whom he termed is is as much of a pioneer as was daniel boone in the good old days and with even greater opportunities he hc said joe college great grandson of daniel boone who uncovered the increment of land values that made Anic america rIca comfortable for our I 1 grandfathers is plunging just as definitely into the unknown as old daniel stalked into the wilderness and raised his rifle and another edsen bit the dust the difference is that the american frontier now lies in the laboratory of science here is a truth worth noting americas geographic possessions are now explored but the realms of science hold deeper and more promising possibilities than did the wildernesses wilder nesses of kentucky and indiana more than a century ago what we need is pluck ance and thrift there is still plenty of room at the top but the summit of achievement cannot be reached by looking wholly to uncle sam for sup |