Arizona republican., 1906-03-04

others not thus equipped educatiOnally. l
 The few extra years spent at school | are not wasted. They are often the | most profitable years of all. True the | boy equipped with a higher education | must start three or four years behind 1 others of his age, who enter the fac | tory from the common school; but at the end of half a dozen or more years, | the broadly and specially educated man will surely Outstrip the others, all things being equal
 I consider a higher education in me chanics of the utmost importance: in fact. I may say, it is well nigh indis- pensable to top success. Experience in the factory itself will never give to the boy that general Knowledge of me chanics which is imparted to him in the high grade technical school When he enters the factory, his work will be confined to a large extent to one pro- cess or a few processes; therefore his education from this point will be mar row instead of broad. Consequently, unless he has obtained this general mechanical education at some school, he will find it difficult to become more than an expert along some exclusive line
 The question may be asked: Should a boy who intends to give his life to shoe manufacturing, for instance, have a mechanical education and know about things with which he is not like ly to come in direct contact?
 The answer is simple. Yes, by all means, Ees.
 The mechanic best able to handle any one class of mechanics is he who understands mechanics in general It i7 the same in the sciences. The best eye-specialist springs from the general physician who was family doctor be- fore he became an eye-eXpert. No one is fully equipped to do any mechani- cal part who does not understand the mechanical whole The man educated by experience along only one line of mechanics with little general mechan- ical knowledge. does not see beyond the boundary of that which he is dO- ing, and therefore cannot connect the broad with the narrow. and is unable to get the most out of his machines or the most out of his employees. But let it be understood that education even in the best Institute of technology. does not, and cannot make a mechanic; and does not and cannot. fit one to be- come a manufacturer: neither can 1t produce the skilled workman. There must be natural ability in the first place, otherwise the education will be like good seed sown in bad soil.
 I would not advise any boy to con- slider the possibility of becoming a manufacturer who has not a decided mechanical bent who is not handy with his hands, who does not possess a creative mind, and who does not know how to produce something. or to improve upon something aIread. made. He need not necessarily be an inventor, but he should not be utter ly lacking in inventive propensities.
 The boy who cannot make anything, who cannot do anything mechanical, who cannot properly hang a door, or drive a nail, or saw a board straight. is not likely to have in him the essen tials of the manufacturer. I do not mean to say that it is necessary for a boy to be mechanically expert to sue ceed in manufacturing; but the boy who has no mechanical skill had bet ter keep away from manufacturing.
 If he has the mechanical ability he will succeed even though his success be confined to the purely factory side;
 but if he develops with mechanical ability, business sagacity and the pow CT to properly handle men, he will sooner or later become a superintend- ent or a managing head, and, per haps, an owner in the business.
 To become a manufacturer, in a commercial sense, one must have bus mess ability as well as mechanical skill The boy wIl is simply mechani- cal, and who has no head for business, who simply makes something for the
 sake of making it without any regard
 to it's practical value, may or may not
 be a mechanical genius; but he is not adapted to manufacturing. In other words, the successful manufacturer must have a love for the mechanical, and some skill in mechanics, and in addition to this must possess a gen eraI business capacity. which will en- able him to proftably sell what he makes.
 I cannot too fOrcibIy impress upon the boy and upon his parents, the tre mendOus advantage of a liberal edu- cation. The education will do one of two things. It will either show the boy that he is unfitted for manufact- uring-and it is a worth a great deal l to know what one cannot door it will acquaint him with a rating of his ca pacity. The graduate of a technical l school seldom remains at the bottom.
 He is generally found in later years ! at least half way towards the top, and is quite often near the top, or at 1 the top.
 l The combined processes of making a
 manufacturer appear to be about as follows first, the right kind of a boy,
 one with both a mechanical and a bus
 mess brain; second, a common school education; third, a technical education
 in some institute of technology or | DOlvtechnic school: fourth a beginning
 at the very bottom of the factory end
 and working up until he has mastered most of the details and all of the prin- ciples of manufacturing. When the boy or young man has become thus equipped, he will be in a position to grasp opportunity and even to assist in making opportunity.
 David M. Parry, president of the Parry Manufacturing company, of h. dianapolis, and president of the Ma tional Association of Manufacturers o
 the United States and Carriage Build
 CTS National Association, in a letter l+o