Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-01

Special 70 Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
NEW YORK, Sept. Hard on the
heels Of Mondays headline over a Wash
ington dispatch, president to call q
conference soon on unemployment" we
had in New York City today the follow
up headline, five hundred thousand idle
here; fear bitter winter" I wanted to
know more, particularly for the reason
that IN another section OF the newspaper
a few moments before l had read the
faring bid for students to take a CORE
| spondence course. He added: BE an ex-
ecutive and earn Sc, 900 a year" The
Hiatus was so appalling, this gap be-
tween an implied promise of super
afluence and the wholesale actually Of
no job at all, that the quest was i'm
mediately begun to find out what was
the matter and to ask somebody If there
was not practical remedy.
Before going further wish to disciaim
any intention either of attacking mall
order education or of again begging an
employment preferential for ex-service
men, the latter a thing that one must
feel has been rather overdone Of late In
fact, L offer as evidence Of the benefits
resulting from teaching by mail the in
stance of the architect who designed the
Metropolitan Life Insurance building,
and other manipulating achievements. In
Guiding the careers OF the president Of
one of the largest fountain pen COM
pantes, the man who made a pencil fam
Gus, the vice president Of one of the
largest automobile factories in the world
and Joseph P. Day, New York's pet
auctioneer
Nevertheless, It is a fact that much OF
the unemployment is among men who
have acquired "a champagne taste
this illustration has nothing whatever TO
do with the sale or imbibing of alcohol
hundreds, yes, hundreds Of thousands,
who persist in seeking to be what they
amt"
GOTHAM MAIL ORDER
SCHOOLS FLOURISH.
New York City is a sort of headuuar-
ters for specialized mail-order education.
There is the Sheldon school, whose
founder coined the watchword of the
Rotary clubs, He profits most who
serves best" and which has both home
work and classes with an alumni Of
127. 900; the Alexander Hamilton Instl-
tute, which is a correspondence edition
Of the Wharton school, with 10000 stu
dents, past and present; the business
training corporation concentra ting on
foreign trade, with $4,000 graduates. and
the benjamin Franklin Institute, teach
ing banking by mail, with an alumni Of
more than 1900. Then we have all
around US pupils and graduates of the
International Correspondence School in
Scranton and the La Sale Extension in
Chicago. which jointly have postage
stamped more than a million men into
various phases Of fitness for progress
in life's struggle.
All this tremendous correspondents ex-
tension fort, auxiliary to the hundreds
OF schools. colleges and universities OF
the country, and aimed to head men to-
ward the top, prompts the question:
What has been done to teach men by
mail or otherwise to worthiIy fill the
lower rungs OF the ladder?" I asked this
question today OF V. Clement Jenkins, an
authority on industrial problems, and
who incidentally is a leading factor in
mail order education.
Frankly. not a great deal, for what
you hava suggested is q work that mora