The New York herald., 1921-02-07
URGES BEST BRAINS
AID NATIONS YOUTH
Dr. Grant Favors Bic Brother
Committee to Place Boys
in Professions.
WOULD UTILIZE GIFTS
Rector Says There Are Too
Many Square Pegs in Round
Holes in Country.
WOULD UTILIZE GIFTS

DR.. Percy Stickney Grant, in his SER
mon in the Church of the Ascension yes
terday, proposed committee OF big
brothers of the best brains TO help
young people 70 positions where their
ability could be more fully utilized.
Taking for the subject of his sermon
Have You Found YOURSELF" he offered
the suggestion to illustrate how the gen
Grafton of older, mature persons could
help the younger generation to better
places than those TO which their prede-
cessors had attained, for square pegs
in round holes, he said. constituted one
OF the great troubles in the world.
Would it not be a fine thing IL we
had committee of the great and good
men of this country he asked "a COM
nittee of 100 of the best brains which
could select 100 Of the next best brains
to work with them? Then, If any young
man wanted job have him write let
ter to tlug committee telling the kind Of
job he wanted. The committee, in turn.
would wyfte back to this young lad that
they were looking for such lads 70 fill
positions which they knew were open,
with little effort" he continued II
think we could fit a lot of boys to grow
and blossom and be a help to society in
stead of getting a crouch, being unhappy
and passing life where they ought not to
be-
Square pegs in round holes! That
is one Of the great troubles with the
world to-day. 7 would make big broth
ers of the best brains of America so
they might help young fellows find them
selves by placing them where their par
ticular gifts would be utilized. We
haven't anything like that, so neighbors.
parents, Sunday school teachers and
clergymen have to take their part. We
know how selections were made in the
army, and II n man was not fitted for
the trenches he was not sent there. We
have got to do that for each other and
for the coming generation. Let US re-
member that 1t is a task each one of
us has to help the coming generation
find better place in the great machin-
cry Of wage earning better than our
generation has.
Think of the opportunities of life.
and the millions of years Of effort nature
has made 20 supply you with the stage
and setting for your activity. Make your
stud! Of your brain, your affections and
YOUR bodily spirit Think of the reeds
of mankind not only in the devastated
regions Of Europe but in other countries
destitute and destroyed by poverty and
famine. and apply II to other great races
which are so poor that they can barely
exist. Think of n great city like New
York which can't get S50,000.0OO to bald
homes for workingmen and the poor y
To find oneself it is not necessary that
one shall have been as reckless as pos
sible. DR.. Grant said One who is corr
rnonplace and has followed the corNen-
tions until he is only an imitatoT 10 IN
need Of finding himself as inu1h as sny-
one who has gone the limit.
Such person is "h.s daily newspaper
or his financial group or the religious
denomination in which he was Drought
I'D" he declared. "Ie Is simply cleyihS
group consciousness and hasn't gwen d
particle Of thought to himself. H@ is
merely skating over the surface OF pre-
pared institutions. He doesn't analyze
them or study them but uses theni ior
bis convenience Such people don't be-
long TO themselves; they are Simply
slaves TO social minlicry.'