The Newtown bee., 1901-09-13

l calling. May that time soon come!
 The man of the twentieth century who succeeds must be a worker of some special ability. He must be a trained specialist. The "Jack of all trades' will find but little employ ment in the future. He is back number. If a man would enter any of the learned professions, he must be in a true sense a specialist. If he would engage in business or in any form of industry, he must master his trade. Even the farmer of the future must be specialist, so comprehensive and exact is the science Of agriculture becoming. At the same time the specialist must have a broad knowl- edge of many matters apart from his speciality. What does all this signify? 1t signifies the complete organization of society; it makes necessary the de- pendence of one form of business upon another; it is developing and perfect ing each science, each trade, and each professions; it is making necessary a special degree of knowledge and abil- ity on the part of each workman; it is making each man good for something in particular; it is giving
 GREATER MEANING AND DIGNITY
 to each mans position; it is, believe, giving dignity to labor. The working man of the twentieth century who does not want to be mere motor run ming machine, must educate and train himself to do special work re- quiring skill; and in proportion to the advance of such education and train ing will labor become dignified. The times demand, then, that working men shall be trained and skillful, and this means increasing dignity on the part of the laborer. This teaches us that with the increasing dignity of man dignity is added to labor.
 In solving this problem of labor dignified, parents and educators must insist that every boy shall either mas ter trade or become fitted for one of the professions. The ancient Jews left us worthy example in this. To use the words of Henry Ward Beecher: '"That notable nation from which we have derived more good sense and more examples worthy of following than from any or all others-the Jew ish nation stands pre-eminent in this, that it has always honored labor. It always made it reputable to be a laborer. Nay, the Jews, as a part of the education of their children, taught them all some manuel craft; so that if their resources failed, there should be no Jewish child who should not be able to do something, or make something"
 While parents and public school edu- catorsshould insist that all boys learn d trade or a profession, the choice of particular calling should not be made for and forced upon the boy Letlthe young man have the privilege of making his own choice, under cer- tain moral restrictions. Mature advice and suggestions should be offered in all cases, but the final decision should be left to the individual most concerned.
 Every young man has his calling and the calling must be discovered by a study of circumstances. There must be taken into consideration the indi- vidual's health as related to possible calling, his talent, capacity, temper ment, adaptation, and the prospects of future usefulness. To choose an oc- cupation for the sake merely of money notoriety, or social position, is to
 SERIOUSLY MISS THE MARK OF LIFE. A young man should select that call ing for which he is best suited and in which he-regardless of all other peo- ple-can do the most good and best serve his heavenly Father
 Whatever a mans calling may be let him ever realize that he IS first, last and always man-a rational. moral, should ever be greater than his call ing and master of his calling. A man should not be slave to his trade or profession. This magnifes the occu- patton at the expense of that which is more mportant-broad, we'll rounded,