The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19

which 1t was promoted. but their benefits
to the world beyond such calculation.
Reconstruction is ever recurring proc
ess, that takes new direction at the ap
proach of every great national event which
either changes the trend of thought
rends its political views.
Opportunities in New Way
With Proper Place for Each
Ten years ago these opportunities were
still fresh, but they had taken a new direc-
ton. The science of business was beginning
to be recognized and production was brought
under control, so that values could be meas
ured with more accuracy and the employer.
as well as his fellow workers. could proper
tionately profit by a calculation of results
in ratio to the effort expended which the
rising generation of business managers in
troduced. A new idea sprang up-that of
finding the proper place for each worker.
giving him an opportunity to improve his
prospects by placing him in his right voca-
ton.
Ten years ago began an era wherein the
business mind developed inquisitiveness-a
tendency to analyze classify, economic and
make every action count. 1t was the great
production period, in which factories multi
piled and remunerative work was provided
in increasing population. There were OPP
portunities i'm realty investment and methods
which made the vast agricultural interests
of the country produce double by scientific
or intensified farming l see no difference
between the opportunity that lay before the
young man of ten years ago and the ten
years preceding, nor the opportunities tina u
existed during the period of political and
commercial reconstruction following the
war.
1.-THE year 1919 set in with our young men
back from foreign lands. and the military
importance of the United States ceased to
I re-
garded the unrest engendered by the war as
any other than a manifestation that was
bound to come, hysteria often follows
danger that has been herolcally faced; but
we must be aware Of the undesirable aliens
who are filing ships from foreign ports and
are crowdng Ellis Island to-day.
1.-THE decrepit the inefficient and the po-
litcal disturbers with their insane notions
of a government-the outcasts of their own
lands--and the criminclly idle must be Kept
away for these hosts provide the unrest
which brings into its swirl the better think
ing men. and even good citizenship, when It
Is played upon long enough by its seductive
theories.
World of Extravaganza
Has Affected Youth of To-day
THE young man of to-day has been liviut
in world of extravaganza He has been
paid high wages. There is no pleasure
diversion or excitement that he cannot easily
gain. for the temptation lies everywhere
His opportunities were never better and his
distractions were never greater. Have men
been enervated through the luxurles OF pre-
vailing conditions to the point where they
cannot labor in way that calls for privation
and intensity, as the men did ten years ago
and before? Have they become too SNOWY
and. for a better word l will say conceited
by comparing their earning power at this
,i,,e with tho earning mower of their fathers
OF the past age? They have probed the sit
uation deep enough to realize that We are
RAPIDLY getting hackyto tho day when sheer
atiiitv counts"