Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-23

New York. May 19.-Wanted by Dig
business: Young men who are capaple "a
earning from $4,000 to S35,0OO a year.
While this announcement has not yes
appeared in the classified columns OF
our prominent dailies. it is an idea which
is advanced at every large business CON
vention occurring here. and one thaI 10
being given wide circulation Dy rotary
clubs. There is a demand for resource!ui,
enterprising men, capable OF strlhlhs
a field and the sky is the limit IN salary.
The truth is that big business, IS ia
a pathetic plight. Never before mas II !.
suffered from such an acute shortage OF
high priced experts. Never peIofe mas
the top of the American industrial laa-
der been so empty of eligibles, IL gap
ia SO large, in fact, that it is even pre-
dicted that our industries Will nave 70
stop expanding unless the prains anu
executive ability needed to develop theni
are somehow produced: -. ~,
In it's terror of such caiami.s' & pis
business has recently approached tne
Universities and offered to endow whole
sections of them if they will only tur,i
out the kind of ability that ls neeaeu.
Inst what this ability is has been ohig
vaguely set down. but it Is understood
that various industries are coilaporaee.ins
in the compilation of list OF specllica,,
t;ons for the types of men neeaed' anu
This will be distributed among eduealioh-
al institutions.
LikeabIe Men.
Heading the list, undoubtedly will be
nersonality. This is the principal re-
nuirement in a high priced man, ana
most of the trouble lies in the tact tnat i
there is not nearly sufficient personailty
to go around The man OF great per
sonal magnetism, with ability TO MAKE
others like him and to exert an lnflu-
once over them is the man for whom
American industry is now IN the mar
ket. ,v cold
John d. Rockefeller some years ago,
"has become just as much marKes,
able commodity as is sugar, ana l VIII
nav higher for it than anybody else IN
the worldn Well, John ID. was pioneer
hut today finds himself surrounded by
competitors. all bidding high for the
same qualities.
Another urgent requirement OF INDUS
try is technical skill, supplemented by
creative ability. 1t wants technical men,
with ideas. men who are capable of i'm
proving upon old methods and OF de
veloping new processes.
These are the principal needs, hus
several others will doubtless be sub
mitted TO the universities. which have
announced themselves willing and anx-
ious to cooperate with industry in sup
plying the kind of training 1t wants;
This arrangement was discussed and
agreed upon at recent Conference
held in Philadelphia under the auspices
of the Technology Clubs Associated,
which was attended by representatives
of more than a hundred corporations
throughout the country and of more
than three hundred educational institu-
tions. Never have college professors
ard industrial maganates been so chum-
my. 1t was at this conference that DIR.
Hollis Godfrey, president of Drexel in
stitute. conceived the specification iden.
Specifications Written.
Educational waste has been going on
for centuries he declared. because
there never has been a definite state
ment of specification written by industry
Of the specific knowledge required To