The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-09-02
BRIGHT BOYS
ARE WANTED
those With Erains, Ambition,
Conscience, Energy and Grit
WHO'S WIG IN AMERICA
President Blackmsu, of Rollins College,
Points the Path Of Success to the
Young Men Of Florida
Winter Park. Fla, August &c, 1910
,l,or TIE TRIRIJNE.

Winter Park. Fla, August &c, 1911
Editor The TRIBUNE:
Dear SRI am looking for a boy.
There are plenty Of boys in Florida,
hut thew are mostly not the kind | an
boxing for.
iwant to find boy of brains, Of
ambition, of energy, of grit, of wide
and deep vision, of conscience. The
other and the commoner sort. the dull.
birds and loafers one can pick up on
,uy street corner in our cities and vii
aces. and every where in the piny
woods, but | am not interested in
them.
What do want with the right kind
Of boy? want to talk with him.
| want to make him understand, If
au that the world is waiting and
lingering for men such as he ought to
become and can become. There was
never heard so insistent a call for men
who can think and do and speak and
write effectively, as today. The world
wants leaders. Every employer OF
labor, every industrial corporation, is
al the while searching for helpers who
can be trusted, who know how to do
things, who have initiative, energy,
,ense, trained ability, faithfullness; for
such men a hundred opportunities are
waiting, and plentiful rewards. Every
important community is eager for
minister's. lawyers, physicians, teachers,
public officials, who will command con-
hdence and achieve results. Every
where there is a surplus of weak and
common. place men, and a dreadful
dearth of the capable and trustworthy.
Always "there is room at the top
not merely room, but and aching void"
and an insslent call.
Then ! want to put in the hands of
by boy the current issue of who's
Who in America" recently came from
the press, and go over with him as
many as possible of the biographies of
the l7,546 Americans who are of suf-
6cient Importance to be included in that
carefully edited work. Here is list
Of our successful men, our useful and
unusual men-by what path did they
achieve their success?
Ny boy would discover that nearly
sixty per cent Of these nOtables are
graduates of colleges and universities;
that nearly fifteen per cent more studied
10 colleges though they did not COM
plete the course; and that another
seventeen per cent were trained IN
academies. normal and high schools.
This then is the fact which should
like my boy to ponder, that in the vast
majority of cases it is the thoroughly
educated man who succeeds in con-
spicious degree. The uneducated and
the self-educated may also win success
but only if they have extraordinary
capacity persistence and good fortune
the chances are heavily against them.
And the curious fact Island this |
shall ask my boz 20 turn over seriously
in bis milm-tha, i is not the 'practi
cal" studies, appnrently, which makes
the most practeAi, the most successful
men. AccordinG 70 Who's Who, "the
boy who "wastg his youth" studying
Greek, Latin, ilerature, science and
history increasaa MS chances Of success
N later life soln four or five hundred
fod. The greatest men of business
are not gradua - of Business Col
leges, useful az these are. The great.
eat attorneys a"d statesmen are not
those who hurried into low-grade law
sehoos at the a3rtiest possible moment.
ine greatest phySicians are not those
Pic took "suort.cut" into a poor
)Nical school Tor medical schools worth
tpding do not admit short cut men.
Elbow the boys who fought their
Ithrough both high school and col.
before taking up technical or pro-
bnal st1dies, picked up something
that caused them speedily ia
aul and pass by their fellows who
The shorter and easier path.
laps it was discipline. that "men-
cipline" which 90 many wise peo-
ak slightingly, Of now q days,
they get in college and when
bards put them rapidly to the fore;
is single typical case, that OIL
fits Secretary OF the Interior
y not like Mr.. >Ballinger's poll
1t we can learn something from
He graduated atsWilliams College
age of twenty-six ard was ad'
to the bar two years later inter.
Z his studies from time to time
might pay for his education y
E and law school by his own toll
IS nearly thirty years OF age De.
e began the practice Of his pro.
h. A hundred Florida boys have
he that they could not afford tnt
to take college course, ane
too poor, the trouble is that the!
too poor in spirit" though MOI
sense of Beati tn lie, too poor II
in pluck, in ambition; they havs
is much time and just as mucI
v as Mr.. Rallinger had, but tneS
bic foresight, energy and sell con