Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-10
FRIDAY. MARCH 10. 1922.
THE AGE or EXPERTS


French Johnson Of the New Norl
University School OF Commerce
that the time is near when bust
ness callings will be lifted to pro
fessional status, with business
men as graduates OF university
schools of commerce, is but in
keeping with what is being saia
generally of this as "a scientific
age" To do ones full share Ill
a scientific age one will have tc
be educated accordingly.
The declaration of the PROBES
sor that the school Of HARD
knocks" otherwise the self-educa
ton system mixed with expert
cnce, is gone, is scarcely to be
taken literally. since bitter eN-
periences come regardless of edu
cation; one may be trained to
avoid some, but in this busy
world new difficulties are always
turning up. As history has PROV
cd repeatedly that genius cannot
be kept down, no matter what ii
may lack i'll school education,
there never need be fear that
brilliant intellects and sterling
characters will not in the future
find their way to the front with
out the aid of a university de
gree as they have in the past
But this does not say that they
would not arrive there sooner
with the aid of university train
ing. The point of the whole
thing is that the scientific way
has come, generally, to be the
way of doing things. and. to keep
up, it is just as natural that uni
versity training should be sought
for the more technical pursuits as
ii is to go through an apprentice
ship in the learning of a trade
After saying that the banker will
be thought OF as a professional
man. as today we think OF the
lawyer. the physician. the archi-
tect, the engineer and the certi-
fed accountant. Dean Johnson
continues;
"Other business callings also
will he lifted gradually to a pro-
fessional status, such as advertiS-
ing, insurance. management. in
duStrial engineering, journalism,
sccretaryshipS OF chambers OF
commerce, brokerage, especially
in investment securities. railroad
and steamship transportation. and
] am also inclined 70 include book
publishing. merchandising, the
management OF large hotels and
restaurants. city management and
the conduct of the multiform
business activities of the nation.
the state and the municipality.
No matter whether one secures
the training by private study and
experiment or in a university. one
has To have it to advance. When
we read OF some eminent BUSH
ness man or captain of industry
who started as an office boy or-ai
the foot of the ladder, we must.
not think OF him as having risen
TO a lofty place through sheer
genius. He was 4 student for
years in connection with his
work. This brings out that the
university is a great factor in the
lives of the So-called self edu-
Gated" The latter haze read
books produced on their subjects
by the university professors the
while they continued their practi-
cal work. Although Lincoln was
4 genius who is not to be meas
ured as ordinary men. it is to h
kept in mind that he was not a
rail splitter when he entered the
White House. In addition to his
reading, he had passed through
training in the state legislature,
as a lawyer and member of Con-
gress, becoming, known, princi-
pally through the debates with
Douglas, as one of the soundestl
statesmen and one of the most
effective public speakers in the
country, Although he had not