The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-24
A Word of Warming.

nent in the educational institutions of our city gave an address to a gradua-
 ting class. As it was designed to be
 brief he went directly to his. point and
 dwelt upon it with great earnestness.
 As the graduates had been studying in
 preparation for teaching, he assumed that they would soon fill positions where much would be demanded of
 them, and by way of advice as to the manner in which they fulfilled their du-
 ties, he reCounted the result of several
 interviews with business men in which
 they were asked the question, Why do
 so few of our young people in the pres
 ent day succeed?" The business men
 uniformly replied that it was because
 the young people were seeking too easy work and were unwilling to do the
 things that were required of them.
 They said the average High school graduate was looking for a soft
 place." kept his eye on the clock and
 was ready to rush away the moment time was up. The speaker strongly urged his listeners to work without thought of themselves, to be willing at any time and all times to do anything and everything which came in their
 way without regard to whether 1t was
 included in their regular duties or not.
 This was the only sure road to suc- cess.
 As the writer listened to these utter ances delivered with great intensity, they recalled the time when such words had been eagerly listened to and con- scientiously put into practice by myself. Having been bred entirely to the views of the employer, took these views with me when circumstances compelled me to become an employe, and conscien- tiously applied to myself all that had
 exacted of subordinates in my fathers household I threw myself into my work with the utmost abandonment, giving up the pleasures of literature, society and friends, and even neglecting church duties. being often so weary as to be glad to sleep during Sunday morning. I cheerfully did anything and everything in the line of clerical work connected with an establishment manufacturing tableware, etc., and in return I received more than the ordina- ry compensation and enjoyed the re- spect and confidence of employers and associates Such a course did indeed bring financial success, but what was the effect upon myself of such applica- tion to business totally foreign to my nature and training? It was not long before found myself a totally different person in thought and manners, having unconsciously acquired the business brusqueness always unpleasant in any one, and at the end of year and half I was on the verge of nervous prostra- ton. Only a voluntary resignation saved me from becoming nervous wreck.
 During this period when I regarded with ute" indifference the matter of working overtime cheerfully staying at the office early and late when occasion required, recall how almost contemp- tuously I regarded other employees who were eager to leave their work the moment time was up. and I well re- member the snap with which one in particular closed his desk at the stroke of the hour. He was man whom high ly esteemed. He occupied the position of paymaster in the concern, and also figured costs and estimates; was man of fine nature and literary tastes, but thought he ought to manifest more irl- difference to time, although no comment was ever made on the matter. Howev er as look back now, I remember that he had an invalid wife and that one of his children was sickly; the terms of his contract with the corporation employ ing him called for ten hours and also stipulated that he should be on hand five minutes besore time for the pur- pose of punching work-cards, etc. What time was left for him to devote to his family and for the enjoyment of a cultivated taste? The firm did not give half holidays nor vacations.
 It was not until I enjoyed position with a large corporation whose rules were an eight hour day and which gave a half holiday each week, with liberal allowance of national holidays and va cations, that I regained my former in tellectual poise and could again enjoy the society of my friends.
 These reflections from the standpoint Of personal experience which qualities me to speak. leads me to inquire. For what does education educate? Is it simply to produce 8 more skilful mental machine to work at one task day in and day out, or is it intended to 50 develop the physical. intellectual and spiritual powers that their possessor may be en- abled to use life in it's highest sense and enjoy it's manifold manifestations? The clerical worker (and still less the mechanical worker) gets little opportu- nifty for physical exercise. is often too weary in the evening to enjoy intellec- tual recreation. and the time which should be given to the upbuilding of the spiritual nature generally has, by sheer necessity, to be devoted to other things.
 The only remedy for this condition of affairs, have found to be in scienti- fic arrangement of ones time-not to be rigidly observed, but to be followed pretty closely if one is to reap it's bene- fits. If portions of ones time are to be given to recreating and keeping in pro- per condition the various functions. of