The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-16

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University Through Efforts of santa
| Fe.
Every year the Santa Fe enlists
young ambitious fellows from topeka
and starts them on the way to success.
The latest recruit is Ture S. Tulien,
son of S. A. Tulien, a Topeka contrac-
tor. Young Tulien has been awarded
the famous Ryerson scholarship in Pur-
due university. This scholarship was
given to him through his work il the
Santa Fe shops in Topeka after gradu-
| ating from the high school and through
the recommendations Of a mech meal
| engineer of the Santa Fe here VINO IS
a member of the American Railway
Master Mechanics association.
Ture Tulien has left for Purdue where
his scholarship pays him $500 year
for four years in this well known UNI
Versity.
The Ryerson scholarship in Purdue is
offered through the support of the F.
T. Ryerson company of Chicago. The
scholarship is awarded by the Anleri-
can Railway Mechanics association, an
association composed of prominent rail-
way mechanical men all over the Uni
ted States. Only one young man in
the country is given the scholarship
and at every election scores of young
ambitiors fellows are presented for APP
pOintment.
An Honor for TuIien.
The election of Ture Tulien Of Topeka
is considered an honor among tho rail-
way men over the country. Members
of the Master Mechanics association
from other railroads in the United
States had recommended young men
from their offices and shops. The con-
test was keen and the news of Tulien's
appointment was received with enthusi
asm in the local mechanical offices of
the Santa Fe.
Ture S. Tulien was born December
Z, 1889. He graduated from the Sum
ner common school in 1905 and from
the Topeka high school in 1909 After
his graduate from the high school,
Tulien did not roll up his trousers and
buy a new pipe to smoke in local pool
halls. He didn't pull a fizz throttle
the rainy summer days sitting behind
a plate glass window watching the girls
go b.
None of these popular indoor sports
for Tulien. Instead, he started out the
morning after his diploma had been
given him and applied at the Santa Fe
shops for a place in the apprentice
ranks. He resolved to start at the
bottom and work mis- way into the offices
and into the actual training.
The apprentice school was filed with
young fellows at his application but
this did not discourage the young high
school graduate He didn't stamp on
the ground, flip a cigarette to the
gorund and declare that the world was
cruel to a man with a diploma. ne
did not go back up town and apply to
a grocer as a candy clerk
Tulien turned his back on the ap-
prentice school and started for the
shop offices. He told the officers to
whom he applied that all he wanted
work He didn't specify a desk job
with swivel chair. He didn't ask that
a brass cuspidor be placed on a car
pet near his desk.
The officials of the Santa F'e who are
always hunting for good young mater
ial saw this at a glance. Instead OF
sending Tulien away they created a
place for him on tracing of mechani-
cal drawings and light machine work.
IN October, 1909, he entered the ne
chanical engineers Office where he re-
manned until February. 1910, wlen ne
entered the Topeka shops as Il ma
chinfst apprentice The officers saw in
Tulien a good steady, hard working
chap who wanted to make good and
who had the interest Of his road and
his work at heart This pleased the
officer over his department and the Of
ficer who had met him on several oc-
casions in his Office work AS result
this official worked for him as 4 man
capable of accepting and making use
of the RyerSOn schOlarship-and he
was given the appointment.
This isn't a sermon. Tt is a true tale
of what the Santa Fe has in store for
a young man who believes in work and
who isn't afraid of it. 1t is 2 lesson
for Topeka young high school or col /
Iege graduates who have ambitions aEd T
who ere not sitting around on soda 1
fountain stools complaining because
the world is not offering a position
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