Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-11-14
NEEDS OF AN EDUCATION.
Urgent Need That Young Men Should Con-
slider Carefully the Future.

The most critical time in the life Of
young man is when he makes thC
choice of his profession. If his choic,
is wise, he, with proper effort, 'will be
come success. If be chooses voca
tion for which he is untitled he car
never succeed, no matter how much be
may try. There are men to-day who
would have been eminently successful
in certain professions but because they
have been unwise in their choosing
have achieved merely nominal exis.
tance, The young man starting out in
life should especially make wise
choice of vocation, and in doing Sc
ought thankfully to receive every aid
in making it possible,
While immediate results of the
choice are in most cases desirable, yet
the young man making the choice
should choose primarily for the uti-
mate results. This is point on which
so many parents and young men blum
der fatally.
What do | want with more educa-
tion2 can make my dollar a day"
says the average young man. So he
stops his school work and makes his
dollar day, but at fearful cost to
future life. The young man who can
make "a dollar day or better perhaps,
ought to be proud of it. Not for the
mere fact that he can make the mon
ey, but that it shows he has the ability
to make money, which, if properly
trained, would make him eventually, if
such be his mbition, rich.
1t is not the common day laborer in
the factories who gets the result of his
labor, True he makes his dollar a
day" and even more; perhaps ever since
be was young man, but what has be
accomplished in life? Comparatively
nothing. He lives in the same rented
house he lived in when a young man.
His wages have just supported his
family and paid his house rent.
All honor to the men whose brawny
arms have made America what she is
to-day. But the times are changing
and the ruling spirit of the century is
brain" not "brawn." Where we can
and have the right to choose-young
men for themselves, parents for their
children--sball we choose to command
or serve?-
The ''seli-made" man cannot be re-
spected too highly, but the time of the
''self-made" man is fast disappearing.
Men who are educated are the men who
are wanted in every profession. Take
the examples of the notable "self-
made" men of the day Every one la
ments the fact that he is not educated
and insists that his children should
receive the very best
Enter two men in any business what
soeVer, give them equal talents, let
them be equal in every respect save ono
that Of eduCation-and in every pro-
fession the educated man will rapidly
out-distance the uneducated
YES" says some father, 81 see that
education is a good thing but it takes
so long to get it and he can be earn,
ing his money now"
Without an education can he ever
expect to rise in his profession? What
class of young men do they put in the
responsible positions of our manufact-
cries? Certainly not the more ignor-
ant workmen, but logically they Sc
lect, all things being equal, the most
intelligent and educated man in the
shop.
There is no reasonable young man
who has not an ambition to be lead
er in any work be may undertake. 1t
is perfectly proper for him to have, but
when be realizes too late be is forever
handicapped by his ignorance, that it
is the Importance of an education and
the propriety of choosing for the whole
and not for the transient present, his
ambition is driven to the winds and he
sees nothing before him but life Of
drudgery,
Then in the choice of profess on
the first essential is a good education,
as much as possibly can be received,
After this the young man because he
knows has the ability and can choose
successfully. The young man who de-
liberatelY quits his education that be
may get him lob makes a step from
which he will bitterly repent.
There is too much said against the
word "selfshness." Selfshness used in
the proper sense is a God-given gift
Let US be selfish in the fact that we
want the best for ourselves and child
rem. Selfish is the fact that we will
seize every advantage and opportunity
for our own upbuilding.
ANXIOUS POPULL