The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

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A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE YOUNG
MEN AND WOMEN OF TODAY
WILL YOU MAKE A LITTLE
TEST FOR US—and YOURSELF?
Ask your Dad, or some other older
person, to tell you about the improvements
that have been made and the
conveniences that have been developed
during the past 25 or 30 years.
Then, compare present day condi-
tions with the conditions of 25 or 30
years ago.
After having done that, try to look
into the future and visualize some of
the improvements that we should see
materialize during the NEXT 25 or
30 years. If you do this, we believe
you will be convinced that the world
has made much progress during the
past quarter of a century or more
and that it is reasonable to assume
that even GREATER progress may
be expected during the NEXT 25 or
30 years.
We are living in a CHEMICAL, as
well as a MECHANICAL, age. No
doubt, you are familiar with some of
the many new uses that are being
made today of the products of the
farm, or the earth, such as the sweet
potato, soy bean, peanut, cotton seed,
and coal. We confidently expect more
or greater uses to be developed for
the consumption of COTTON — and
other farm products—during the next
few years. Then, look at our large
pulpwood mills, great iron-ore plants,
big oil refineries, large beverage
plants, Rayon mills, and immense
glass manufacturing establishments
all being developed to larger proportions
and using the products of the
farm, the forest, or the earth.
In trying to visualize the future,
as suggested above, you doubtless
took into account the great progress
that has been—and is being—made
in Aviation, Refrigeration, Radio,
Air-conditioning, etc. We shall not
go into details along these lines, but,
suffice to say, much progress may be
expected along those lines during the
next few yeai's.
We may also look forward to great
expansion in rural electrification, the
installation of modern plumbing in
our country homes, and thousands of
rural telephone lines. We might also
remind you that, during the next fewyears,
millions of new homes, business
houses, private office buildings,
and manufacturing plants will be
erected to take care of the increase
in population and business.
Then, as we progress, we can look
forward to the manufacture and sale
of millions of additional automobiles
to our farmers, skilled tradesmen and
others—which means not only enlarging
and improving automobile and
accessory factories, but, in turn, will
result in the building of more fine
paved highways, as well as widening,
straightening and improving thousands
of miles of older highways.
Continued progress may also be expected
in our railway and bus transportation
systems.
As man's needs or desires become
greater, new improvements, inventions
and discoveries naturally will be
made, new plans of manufacture will
be developed, and new ways of selling
and buying will be devised. All of
this will create a larger demand for
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our natural products—and will mean
the establishment of more manufacturing
plants and the employment of
more people.
Skilled labor is not only required
to operate the thousands of machines
in our various manufacturing estab-
lishments, but hundreds of thousands
of workmen are required to build
new machinery necessary to produce
the many modern conveniences and
luxuries that are available today at
a fraction of the cost we should have
to pay if we depended on old-time
methods. As a matter of fact, more
people are required today to build
new industrial machines, alone, than
were employed in the entire industrial
field during the early life of many of
our older citizens.
Naturally, all of this development
and expansion in business and industry
will mean a much greater demand
for trained or skilled workers of all
kinds. You will note we said "trained
or skilled" workers, because TRAIN-
ING and SKILL are necessary to
enable one to be of SERVICE—and
it is only through SERVICE that we
can hope to SUCCEED. Then, too,
there is always the problem of replacement,
as others "pass out of the
picture." In other words, every job
or position held by anyone today must
be filled, ultimately, by someone else
— ^but by someone who is TRAINED
or QUALIFIED.
So . . . don't let anyone tell you
that there are no opportunities today
—or that there will not be any in the
future—for those who are prepared
— '
trained—ready! Just remember, always,
that SUCCESS — or making
good — is largely an INDIVIDUAL
matter. One can sit down at home,
or take the first little job he can get,
and he will never get very far; or
he can qualify himself to do some-
thing worthwhile and "go places"
make a REAL success.
The development of one's brain and
the acquisition of skill may be compared
with the physical development
of one's body and learning to perform
physical feats. You know the only
way you can develop your body is
through the proper exercise . . . and
you have to do the exercise YOUR-
SELF. Likewise, the only way you
can develop yourself MENTALLY or
SKILLFULLY is by YOUR OWN
EFFORTS—no one ELSE can do it
for you.
Remember, EDUCATION develops
VISION; TRAINING develops SELF-
CONFIDENCE—and the TWO .stimulate
one's AMBITION — make him
want to QUALIFY—be PREPARED
—to take advantage of opportunities
as they present themselves or be able
to CREATE opportunities for himself.
Our greatest business leaders and
industrialists all stood one day right
where you stand now, MENTALLY
speaking. They had ambition, vision,
courage, and persistence; so they
LOOKED ahead, STUDIED, and
PERSEVERED, until they reached
their present positions. It is entirely
UP TO YOU as to whether you will
be an OUTSTANDING success or
otherwise—depends on whether you
have the personal qualities mentioned—or
are willing to DEVELOP
them — and acquire the necessary
TRAINING or SKILL.