French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-02-14
Trained Men Needed; Students Adj
.yised to Stay in School.

From all parts of the county come
reports of a greatly decreased school
attendance in all grades above the
lgrammar. The older boys have left
THE schools and gone to work.
No doubt the temptation is strong.
Jobs have never been so easy to get
on wages so high, even for dnskilled
labor. Voluntary enilstments and the
draft have drained the country of
great numbers or yOnug men VINO were
at work, and the necessity Oh manu-
featuring immense quantities OF sup
plies in the shortest possible time mas
used up the surplus OF unemployed
older men. No wonder the Doys a
Nov is my chance! Let me MAKE
hay while the u shines!"
But tempting as the opportunities
seem, they are more or less deceptive
for they wear the cloak Of an inflated
prosperity. While the boy of gram
ma rschool or high school age is at
work, other young men, but little old
er, are getting in the army and the
navy a training that teaches them the
value of discipline, that gives play to
all the energy and ambition that they
have, and that offers splendid rewards
for resources and Initiative. Many Of
them are already highly trained in
chemistry, mechanics, engineering,
transportation, manufacturing or some
other branch OF industry, and others
are getting the training under the
hardest but greatest of masters.
Then, by and by, will come the end
of the war; and when the fields of
peaceful Industry begin once more to
turn, the cry will go up for highly
trained men-educated men and those
who have technical knowledge.
The shaking down process that will
follow will set the law of gravitation
at naught, for it is the light weights
that will go to the bottom and the
heavy weights will go to the top-and
stay there.
How will it seem to the boy who
leaves now, and who in five a has
cooled and solidfed in some industrial
Granny, to find himself forced out by a
younger man who knows more because
he has had a better education? What
are the poor immediate dollars worth
beside the larger although later sue
cess
The best advice that anyone can
give a boy today is, Stay in school and
work as you would work ii you we're
in the trenches!-Youths Companion.
Jesus Was No Stacker.
Harold Bell Wright, the famous au- I
thor, has written a wonderful article
called THE Sword of Jesus" for the
February American Magazine. In this
he says:
The commandment of Jesus taht
we forgive men their trespasses can !
not be sanely construed to mean that
We must permit men to continue tres
passing.
Jesus was a man of peace.
Yes. But this does not necessarily !
mean that he was a pacifist. There is
a vast difference between a man of |
peace and a pacifist. Between the j
peace-at-any-price man and the peace
matter what it costs man there is a |
great gulf fixed.
THE man who said: Think not that |
1 am come to send peace on earth; 1
not to send peace, but a sword |
was certainly no peace-at-any-price |
man.
Jesus lived a mans life among
men, played a mans part in the game
of life, and died a mans death. !
This man of Galilee was no slack
er. From his cradle to his cross, from
to Calvary, he was a mans
man, a man Of the people and for the
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