The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-28

ROOM FOR TALENT.
The same is true of the General
Electric and Westinghouse and West
ern Electric and other large COM
panies in the electrical held; the GEN
erar Motors and Ford and WHY'S
Overland and Packard and Stude-
baker and Cadillac and other we'll
known automobile companies, the
Standard Oil and Doheny and Doherty
and Sinclair and Texas Company and
other vast oil enterprises, the United
States and Goodyear and Ajax and
Goodrich and other rubber compa-
MES, the Anaconda and Utah Copper
and whole host of other mining
companies; the American Wooden
Company, the American Sugar Re-
fining and Warner and Federal and
National sugar companies. Endicott-
Johnson and Regal and Douglas and
other colossal shoe companies, the
international Harvester Company,
American Tobacco and Ligget &
Myers and other tobacco companies,
our principal coal companies. Sears
Roebuck and Montgomery Ward and
other mail-order houses doing a
nationwide business; Woolworth and
McCrory and the Great Atlantic and
Pacific and United Cigar, and other
huge chain store enterprises, the
United Fruit Company. and so forth.
Has business in the past been well
run in America?
Yes and no.
The mechanical end OF American
business, the machinery, the Inven-
ton, the transportation, the market
ing-in short the whole material
phase of II has been conducted with
ii genius unsurpassed by any othe-
nation. In many directions we have
eclipsed the rest of the world. In
this sense. therefore, American busi-
ness has been quite extraordinarily
well run, g.
THE HUMAN END.
But what Of the human end of
It? ~ y,
Have not the great majority OF
American business men been so en-
CROSSED in making things and in
rnaking money that they have neg
lected the making. of men?
/ Have they hot overlooked the
fundamental fact that man does not
exist for business. but business for
industry, must be to turn out tho
right kind of citizens?
IT Is when we take this broadcast
view of business that the value of
enlistipg for it's ranks the finest
ri oducts of our colleges and UNI.
versities becomes clear. After all Is
said, we are justified in looking for
broader and better and deeper think
Ing from highly educated human
minds than from minds but poorly
educated. ..
We are entitled to expect moro
statesma nship from young mon
trained to become leaders than from
those not so trained. The right
kind of education also tends to give
men an. accurate perspective, tends
to reveal to them the relative value
of the strictly material and the
human and spiritual.
Our colleges and universities t~ach
men history. II
Graduates emerge with. for example,
knowledge of the causes leading to
revolutions. The unskilled workman
who rises from the ranks often is
disposed to be a harsh, stern task
ma st err, given to driving rather than
leading those under him. His vision
and his philosophy are liable to be
narrow. The properly educated man
has background illumined by the
events and the course OF human his
tory. ''.
Therefore, he is or should be able
to grasp the larger significance of
social and economic trends and be
alive to the necessity for acting fair
ly and magnanimously.
, We all know, of course, that even
the highest university diploma is no
guarantee that its\ holder will de-
velop into worthy leader, a real
statesman, a philosopher wise enough
to realize the value of following the
golden rule.
Many uneducated men have develop
ed into business statesmen OF the
highest order. Yet, the thoroughly
educated man has broader and
stronger foundation to build on. The
light OF the past serves to illumine
his pathway through life.
Do not feel, therefore. that IL is
well that a greater number of young
Americans graduating from our col
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