The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

do as I tell you and within three years
you should be earning $4,000 year. Your
abilities are mechanical, your talent Tor
business. Not office work-salesman. NOT
a canvasser, but a demonstrator-salesman.
l am going to put you into an automooile
shop. When you have learned all about
the construction Of automobiles. you viii
60 into the salesroom and demonstrate
automobiles to prospective customers
'In the meantime you must improve your
physical health with regular exercise
more than walking-exercise that will ex.
pand your chest and improve your cir
culation. And you must suppress your
dislike for meeting people. Get out and
meet people, all sorts of people. and pretty
soon you will like to meet anybody. and
will lose your thin-skinned nervousness in
the presence of strangers. The first thing
for you to do is to wake up!"
This type is very numerous. 1t is mainly
q question of waking them up. After that.
a chance at their real vocation produces
wonders. Sometimes 1t helps to prescribe.
also, an avocation-a hobby which satisfies
the soul OF the man. which his natural vo.
cation. economically considered, will not
always do. In the instance illustrated
above | suggested photography as a hobby
an avocation which combines mechanical
ability with the exercise of considerable
intelligence, and at the same time which
is capable of being developed into a bread
winning occupation.
Health is the first duty. the first essen.
tial-a physical. mental and moral by.
gienic condition. Vocational insists nearly
always pay the penalty of certain degree
of physical deterioration and a correspond.
ing lapse Of mental and moral Tone Res.
toration of physical hearth through proper
exercise and other hygienic measures Is
necessary. and usually is not difficult TO
accomplish when there is the inspiration
of confidence that at last the real vocation
has been entered.
AS I have already said. the Iegitimats
place for the vocational analyst-aside
from his professional services TO business
concerns in passing upon the abilities OF
executives and other employees In the
public schools. His services there will
put stop to the frightful waste OF young
energies now compelled to reach out blindly
for appropriate inches In the worlds in.
dustrial life.
Three Types of School Children.
Among public school children the work
is simpler. The types are not SO complex
later on. when disappointment and dis
content have warped the natural character
and disposition. There are really only
three types Of school children-the coarse
type, the fine type and the medium type.
With respect TO all of these types, physical
CeVelOpment SnOulQ De CONSIDERED nrst
Children Of the coarse type are slow. but
very sure. They have to be managed with
patience, as they can be led only by kind.
ness-they win not be driven. They arc
Flooding and steady and are mostly suit.
able for the coarser mechanical work
When once their minds expand in con-
structive work, with their logged determin.
alton, they often win financial success in
some manufacturing proposition where
pluck, energy and patience are required
Children OF the fine type are the most
brilliant, but seldom the most valuable to
the State. II negative, they become para
sites and prey on the other two classes.
if positive, they become professional men
and leaders all around. Teachers must be
careful not to humor their briIliancy in
any special line. most of them becoms
MASTERS II they get TO be automatic only
in their work. In music and art and in
public life they can become leaders.
The medium type is mixture of the
other two and is generally the most nu.
nerous. They are the better of for the
mixture. They naturally go in for bust.
ness-selling and buying-become also su.
perior mechanics They go into the pro
fessions too, but always for the purpose
of making money.
The real vocation Of the vocational ex.
pert should be to see that these children
do not leave public school without a thor.
ough understanding of their typical char.
acters and qualifications and of the voca-
4or fhov In