Evening star., 1921-09-03
BY ROGER W. BABSON

today are trying to get through every
other means. All the educators, all
the psychologists. all the inspirational
/, writer's cannot put into man the
which are gained by clear faith:
! Most of US today are franticaliy try
ing to invent machine which will
solve our problems. when all the
while we have the machine within
us. if We will only set it going. That
machine is the human soul.
| Developing the Human Soul.
The great problem today is to de-
! Eelop the human soul. to develop this
I wonderful machine which each one
| of us has be;ween his ears. Only as
| this is developed can we solve our
| other problems. When we give as
much thought to the solution of the
human problem as We give to the
solution of the steam problem we
Will have no labor problem. We have
gone daffy over things like steam.
electricity, water power. buildings.
forgotten the human soul. upon
which all of these things depend and
from which all of these things origi-
nate.
Fully eighty per cent of the people
today are at their present occupa-
tons by mere chance or force of cir
; cun.stanccs. Men are not doing their
present work because it is the work
they like best or can do best. Some
day this will all be changed by new
This change alone will result in CIV
ing us at least double what we get
today for a dollar. Statistics teach
! that most of the failures. disappoint-
ments and troubles of life are due to
men and women getting into work
for which they are untitled. The
hard laws of supply and demand and
reward and punishment gradually
rcctify these errors, but great waste
and suffering are caused by the
process. For instance, there are
2.250.00O farmers striving for a bare
existence on farms of less than fifty
acres, while four-fifths of the area
of the large holdings is being held
out Of active service by $4,000
owners.
Some day men will be selected and
. trained with the good care which is
now given to hogs and cattle. Some
day We shall learn that when our
neighbor makes a loss. a part of it
necessarily comes on US; while our
neighbor cannot prosper without our
henefiting also. Then we shall be
as interested in the welfare of our
neighbors children as in our own.
The wcrk now being done in the
| lines of vocational guidance, in
dustrial education and part-time
instruction is a step toward this end.
StdtlStN.S SNOW tHat tHeTc 81 no
physiological reason why the useful
years of the average man should not
be double what they are today. We
wrongly take it for granted that
when a person reaches certain age
his useful days are over. The
reason why we do not live longer is
not so much because we do not take
care of ourselves as because we do
not cooperate to help the other
fellow. One is astounded when study
ing statistics to see the tremendous
waste which comes from needless
accident and disease.
NexIectins His Daughter.
1 was visiting the home of a famous
manufacturer recently, and he took
me out to his farm. Above the head
of each heifer and each COW was the
pedigree. The most careful record
was kept of every animal. He had
a blueprint in his library at home
of every one of those animals. Yet
when we began later to talk about
the labor problem in his own plant.
and l asked him how many of his
people he knew personally, he told
mel quote his words:
why, they are all alike to me, Mr..
Babson. 1 don't know one from the
other"
Later in the evening-it was dur
ing the Christmas vacation-a young
fellow drove up to the house in a
fancy automobile, came in and asked
for this manufacturers only daugh-
ter in order to take her to a party.
l didn't like the looks of the fellow