The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-11
Just Giving the Boy His Chance
BY LUTHER BURBANK.

him eight years of costly training
simply to teach him those funda-
mentals which all other LAWYERS
know. The law is a highly organ
lied profession. The eight years Of
time and the thousands of dollars of
expense do not assure the boy of sue
cess-they merely place him In a po-
sition TO compete with $4,000 other
lawyers who have all had about the
same training at the same expense
they are merely preliminary requl-
sites before his individual talent may
be given even the barest opportunity
TO show for itself.
so, too, with medicine, with en-
eiDeering, with advertising, and with
all Of the other highly organized pro-
fessions.
So, TOO, with railroading, and with
virtually every line of busness-the
advancement which has come has
brought with it state of organiza-
tion which eliminates the need of the
unframed individual-which demands
long, tedious apprenticeship, before
the slightest attention can be paid to
individual merit-if, indeed, the in
dividual merit is to receive its op-
portunity at all.
The world already has enough law
yers, enough doctors, enough en-
gineers, enough business executives,
enough railroad men TO take care Of
its wants.
Need of Men.
WHAT it needs-urgently and now
is men who can show the farmer
how to increase his wheat yield with
out corresponding increase of ex-
pense or effort, SO that Chicago and
New York may once more have their
large &c loaves of bread as of old.
What the world needs, urgently
and now, is mon who can increase
the forage from our present acreage
so that 16c will buy a pound of the
choicest sirlOin, as of old, instead of
pound of rump, as now.
What the world needs Is not the
ory, or agitation, or college lore;
there are plenty of these, and at a
cost of 100000 per anaum in
money-ana who knows how much
time-they have succeeded in increas-
ing our crop yield only a bare 3 per
cent.
What the world needs is men who
can do to agriculture and to horticul-
ture what Edison did to electricity,
Carnegie to steel, and the Wander
bits, Hills and Harrimans to trans
portation-develop It's efficiency.
And the boy who tries to give the
world this want will find himself fac
ing an opportunity 400 times bigger
than the railroad opportunity was
hundred years ago, 500 times bigger
than electricity offered at its incep-
tion, 1900 times bigger than the steel
opportunity which Mr.. Carnegie
found-because agriculture is just,
by these amounts, bigger than those
other industries.
No Apprenticeship.
The boy who seeks this opportun-
ity will find himself in no long wait
ing line Of applicants. He will face
no eight-year apprenticeship.
Every acre Of tilla BILE land is invit-
ing him TO come to work; every pur-
chaser of food and clothing is pro-
testing against his delay.
And every plant that grows is anx-
ious to reveal to him the trade secrets
and the technique of his new profess
sion.
What an opportunity indeed
To add single kernel to each ear
of corn means a 100000 bushel
crop increase in America alone.
A single Improvement in the de-
spised potato has meant $17,000,000
a year, here at home,
The production of a single new
fruit, or the adaptation of an existing
fruit 10 new conditions, or the in
crease in yield or improvement in the
flavor Of fruit may mean colossal
fortune in added wealth.
A single intelligent idea applied on
an S0-acre farm may mean the diff
ference, to some one, between grind.
ing poverty and comfortable pros
perity.
A ThOusand-FOld Reward.
What an opportunity, indeed.
TO the boy who has genius Tor
the work 1t offers a thousand-fold
more reward than has ever been Of
fered a genius.
Tn The hnu who has merely inIplli-