Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-10-16
COLLEGE TRAINING
IS IT OF SPECIAL use TO THE
GENERAL BUSINESS MAN.
Farmers, NanufaC turcrS and En-
plOyerS are Finding That SCier-
fifiC Training of Employees as we'll
as of the Employer is Money in
the Pocket of all Concerned.

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contained interviews with this and that
man regarjinE the adaptabiity of a col
lege education in the business world
Many OF these men have questioned the
value of academic training to those who
were to engage in the race for dollars.
They have gone further. They have
stated as their belief that college edn-
cation was hapdicap 10 man who was
to enter vocation where technical edu.
cation was not an absolute necessity.
1t is quite probable that college
education in the classics has little bear.
ing on the handling of the problems that
come up in the efforts to move freight on
one OF our trunk lines, and it is equally
possible that the study of modern lam
guages may not be of material assistance
in building up large trade in dry.goods,
but few people will be found who will
question the value Of q thorough study
of Blackstone to lawyer, or OF anatomy
for doctor. But every day we are see
ing evidence Of ,he adapta biity of scien-
tiflc training to vocations that have
managed to get along without # for
centuries.
Until recently farming and science
were considered about as widely separat-
ed as the antipodes, but the idea is now
becoming prevalent that farming can be
better done because OF the light that
science has thrown on methods. We now
see experiments being made every day
by agricultural college students to deter.
mine how TO successfully resist trust and
various insects that are the bane OF the
farmers life. Scientists in the depart
ment of agriculture have succeeded in
practically eradicating the hoof and
mouth disease among cattle ofthe ranch
ers. and other scientists have developed
variety OF corn that yields bountifully
farther north than farmers ever had any
idea that corn would grow.
A few years ago chemist told a great
Chicago packer that he was losing thous
ands of dollars annually in the refuse
from the hundreds of carcasses that were
daily turned into meat for the consuming
puoic. The chemist was laughed at,
but he was persistent. The result OF his
sticking to it is that practically every
part of the animal, from the tip OF the
horns to the point OF the hoof, from the
sDout to the curl in the tail, is made to
| bring revenue to the packing establish.
| pents. A scientific study of the various
grains has resulted in great variety OF
| cereal products that make corn, oats and
wheat of much greater value to the mill
man than they ever were before.
What science has done and is doing
for agriculture, for the rancher, the pack.
er, the grain miller and others, it prom.
ses to do for the lumberman. Indeed, it
is already showing the manufacturer of
lumber how to make money out of what
he has always thrown on the refuse pile
or sent to the refuse. The cyanide plants
operated in conjunction with sswmills are
doing this. Tar is being extracted from
| the old and abandoned white pine stumps.
But this is not all. The theorist is tell.
ing the practical lumberman how he can
make his supply of timber perpetual,
and the practical lumberman has. so far
been convinced that he is putting up
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
endow school for the training of the
! foresters, who will in the future be
among his most valuable employees.
Purely academic training may not be of
especial value in solving the financial
problems of the day, or of assistance in
meeting thousand and one other ques-
tions that must daily be weighed and
judged by the man OF business. Perhaps
the reason why college training is becom.
ing more valuable to the business man is
because the colleges and universities are
making their courses more practical;
directing their energies along lines that
make them peculiarly adaptable to busi-
ness propositions. At any rate, the man
who now stoutly contends that no man
can attain better success because of his
having received college training, simply
does not know.
The Best Doctor.