Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-10-28
THE DEMAND FOR COLLEGE MEN
Savannah Morning News.)

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The old joke about the college grad
uate having to do mental work at
So a week, after having acquired (as
he thinks) sufficient knowledge to
set the Mississippi on fire, has been
exploded-that is, in instances where
the college young man has had the
foresight to take the right sort of
course of study and is possessed of
the brains to profit by what has been
impaired to him. 1t has been alleg-
ed that there is a plethora of young
students of law and medicine and
divinity. The New York Tribune
the other day had story telling of
how several thousand young men who
had taken the learned professions"
at college had been set down in that
city this year almost without means
and with small hopes of finding pro-
fitable employment. However, the
Tribune concluded that their college
education would make them all the
more valuable workers in commercial
and industrial lines whe n they had
come to realize that there were prec-
ious few openings to be filled in the
learned professions"
Meanwhile there is a great and
growing demand for college young
man who have taken technical cour-
ses. Chief Engineer Carly of a
great electrical concern in New York
declares that the big industrial cor
porations constantly keep their eyes
upon the colleges for graduates in
technology, and that it is foot race
between the corporations, to see
which shall secure the services of the
more promising graduates. Once on
a time it was considered essential for
young nlanto enter manufacturing
or other industrial establishment at
the very bottom rung Of the ladder
and work up" That has become
obsolete. The college graduate, who
has taken the technical course at
some good school, comes out of 1t
better equipped than many man who
has spent half lifetime in learning
the business" by hard experience. The
educated young man, therefore, has
ten years or more the start of the
uneducated man who must acquire all
of his knowledge in the shops. Mr..
Carly says the trusts have has a
great deal to do with the revolution
izing of the employment of skilled
labor. They are the keenest scented
Of all employers in the labor mark
ct. Their constant effort is to find
how a thing may be done cheaper
and better-how to produce the great
est efficiency at the least cost. And
it is in that particular that the edu-
Gated young man is found valuable.
Being grounded in his theory and
ambitious in his practice, he is for
ever thinking out new methods for
the saving of time and cost. Brains
that can originate and develop new
economies are the brains most in de-
mand and best paid under modern
conditions.
The number of chronological schools
in the United States has increased
largely during the past few years,
but more and better schools of the
kind are wanted The cost of at
tending such schools has meanwhile
been reduced. until now it is possible
for the son of carpenter, the mach
mist and the farmer to take the
course. There isn't any such thing
as an aristocracy of chronological
graduates. The young men are work.
ers and the more efficient among them
are invariably winners. New condi-
lions of employment have ensued. and
educated young men are in demand
to meet those conditions.