The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-04
WHAT PROFESSION IS BEST? MEN WHO
HAVE MADE GOOD CHOOSE Different ONES

Massachusetts,. says:
If I were a young man today
would go into the production and ex-
ploitation Of one Of the great basic
raw materials Of industry. such as
steel. oil. or rubber, preferably rubber.
the possibilities of which are just be-
ing discovered.
And why? Because manufactur.
ing and the employment of labor offer
wide field for service to mankind.
not only in the product of the industry
but in the development Of ones own
character and ability"
Edward n. Hurley. chairman United
States shipping board, writes:
II would enter the field of foreign
trade or the shipping world because in
either line of endeavor opportunities
abound for the young man of vision
who Is wiling to work hard.
IF l had gone to the war and had
returned with vision broadened with
that contact with the outer world,
would endeavor to capitalize that ex-
perience by gaining touch with men
who are thinking internationally
Il believe that the leaders Of tomor-
row are the young men from our in
terror sections who have had the great
, advantage Of this experience, whose
vision now encompasses the world.
who think internationally and who
have no thought Of returning to pro-
vincial life
Enter Mechanical Engineering.
DR.. Joseph A. Blake. recently COM,
handing officer and surgeon-in-chief'
of American Red Cross military hos
pital No. 2, Paris. says:
Il would enter mechanical engineer
ing. believing that it will play the,
greatest part in development in the
, future"
Chauncey NJ. Depew, former senator
of the United States, says:
!, What business young man should
go into Is dependent upon ability. OPT
l portunity, environment, and Temporal
, = ment. put your question to a young
man here. He answered. WHAT
: suits you would not suit me-"
Il think the larger prospects are In
. the industries and railroads. Lincoln
complained that among his appoint
holes and he could not make them
At"
j Reed Smoot, United States senator
= from Utah. writes:
IF I were a young man l would, II
y possible, graduate as an electrical
= engineer and enter the electrical
business, for believe that it has
greater future possibilities than any
other, and unbounded possibilities for
unknown principles to be discovered
and applied for the comfort and con-
= venience Of mankind. A new electri-
cal age is before US"
s. Young Can Not Choose.
:: Darwin P. Kinsley, president Of the
4 New York Life InsuranceCompany
: says:
NJ ut Is as true today as it was gen
GRAFTON ago that the boy in the coun-
try who has fought his way through to
the point where he has acquired col
| lege education but has no money and
no connections with important men
| must face life as 1t comes to him day
by day.
| HE must find his so-called destiny
by furious struggle. He can not
calmly select what he will do and re-
fuse some other work that he may not
like. Your query can be properly an
swered only by men who were in po-
sition to make a definite choice when
they were young.
When tell you that If I were
twenty-five now and could choose I
would go into the business l am in. 1t
a is conclusion arrived at after the
i fact. I would become a life insur-
ance man because I now know, as l
did not then know, that Its funda-
mental law-co-operation-i the one
the world must follow if civilization
is to be saved.
at is big enough so that it requires
\ the best in law, medicine and sociol-
| ogy and demands the highest execu-
| tive capacity. 1t constantly serves
| the state in so many ways that may
| not properly recite them here"
II Franklin K. Lane, secretary Of the
| interior, wrote:
H Chemical engineering"
HI Foreign Trade.
Il P. A. S. Franklin, president Of the
| International Mercantile Marine Com
| pany says:
| II would go into some business con-
nected with the development of for
/ eign trade and commerce, either with
ii a steamship house or an exporting
II house, believing that America is going
/ to take much more important posi-
i ton in the commerce OF the world
III than it has previously enjoyed and
Il that it is a great field for young men. "
II John Sharp Williams, United States
/ senator from Mississippi, says:
ii Il say unhesitatingly that If l had
to begin life over again I would 90 at
Il it as farmer with the idea of max
ing two blades of grass to grow where
/ one had grown previously Almost
i everything else in the world is non.
III essential"
H Ole Hansen. mayor of Seattle.
H Wash. says:
H Il am still a young man. If 1 were
Il twenty-one l would try to secure a
Il foothold in the newspaper world. I
Il would learn the business and then try
Il to secure a daily newspaper and In
Il that paper be fair to those who be-
III lieved differently from myself.
HI II know of no field more inviting
HI and none as interesting as running a
y newspaper. AS matter of fact. there
are few professions with as much re-
sponsibility or power for good
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