The Washington herald., 1922-08-03
College Youths.
To the Editor, The Washington Herald:

To the EDITOR, Inc washington hefhio'
"'Tis true. tits pity and pity tits.
it's true. And Dot Ebert. George
all agree that that most of us college
youths are educated above our
mental abilities" =
A few mental weaklings who grad
uate from a liberal arts course. spec
ializing in cigarettes and women chas-
ing thus depreciate the value In the
public mind of that great crowd OF
engineers, chemists, bacteriologists.
physicians, etc, who do real mems
work.
without any doubt. Tom Edison
will hire any sort of monkey wrench
doctor who can answer his common
sense" QUESTIONABLE. A graduate from
a good medical school having given
proof of his inferiority by merely
going through college would not be
in demand.
oh, isn't il to be deplored that just
a handful of Jove's favorites have
such a monopoly on that stuff. COM
mon sense" And how far would Edi-
son have got along were 1t not for
university men such as Sir Humphrey
Davey, Volta. Ohm. Michael Fara-
day and dozens of others who gave
him piles and oodles of well known
facts to start on and to work with
And does Miss Ebert know that IL
Newton had not invented the Calculus
and had that branch of mathematics
not been taught to a college lad named
Goethals, that our Panama Canal
would only have still been a dream
Countless nameless and fameless uni-
versity men have toiled and are still
toiling, finding new remedies for dis
ease, chemicals that will make house
work cease to be a drudgery and ma
chimes more and more efficient to do
our work. light our cities and carry
us over the country. They work for
| neither money nor fame. but because
they love their work. They have no
| union cards and do not 60 on strike
Go to the Library of Congress and
read OF the development Of the glass
industry in this country il you want
to find something interesting. II
isn't fiction But its romance. a regu-
lar fairy tale and you can learn there
that through the efforts OF a few
college men, we need no longer de-
pend on Germany to make our spec
tacles. I mention one particular phase
of technical work. could mention
lHt punt
in. find ont what the university Is
accomplishing. visit the Bureau of
Mines and the Bureau ot Standards.
and the Geological laboratory in this
city and don't just give them the
once over. but study and find out
what they are doing. Visit the re-
search laboratories of Dupont. East
man and the General Electric Com
pauy and see what men who have
graduated from technical courses in
the finest universities of the finest
country that old Sol ever shone on
and who are working there, are do
ing and have done. Take along paper
and pencil and find out what per cent
OF their highest paid men are college
graduates ard what per cent are not
worth plugged nickel" Those
chaps are not lounge lizards and do
not talk much and when they do 1t
Is not like million bucks"
These little cake-eating false alarms
who have graduated from some Punk
Vile one-horse college and have only
a smattering of economics. history
and physchology. subjects that any
Intelligent man can master in any
good library and outside any college
curriculum are possibly the only ex-
amples of college men that you have
met. Better widen your horizon and
observe q few more
FLApDooDLE.