New Britain herald., 1927-06-25

phony? One man? Not was
Franklin and Ampere and Faraday
and Morse and Bell and Edison and
Steinmetz and Lodge and Marconi
and Tesla and DeForest and a most
Of other scientists. each building on
the foundation laid down by his pre-
decessors. Today a telephone con-
versation can be carried on between
your home and London, but the end
is not yet. II anyone thinks that
perfection has been attained he has
but to attempt to listen in some eve
ming when the static is tearing the
atmosphere to tatters. Possibly there
is in this room the young man who
will overcome this demon OF the
air.
deavor. there are still giants to be
overcome.
Are you going into business?
There are Hroblems to be solved
that will cam for the best that is in
you. Several years ago ! was talking
with the manager of concern who
had been handed a prosperous bust
ness by his father. He told me that
when he had taken it over his faith
err had said that he was sorry for
hi-, because there wasn't much
prospect of its being interesting.
The business is firmly established
and will continue to grow he said,
all YOU have to do is exercise a
moderate degree of caution. You
will have no problems to solve and
no difficulties to overcome and
therefore you will miss the thrill
that | have had in managing it.
shortly after the son took over
the Management the war came and
with it great demand for the pro-
duct of the concern. Then came the
slump with its curtailment of pro-
duction. Within five years the bust
ness had gone to extremes in both
directions. beyond the widest hopes
or fears Of it's founder and the son
which the father never anticipated.
1.-THE struggle of capital and la
Dor. the problems of strikes and
lookouts, children in industry pa
ternalism, communism and syndical-
ism will call flor much thought be-
fore the solution is found.
care you going into medicine?
Notwithstanding the strides that
have been made in this field, there
is still much to accomplish. A few
days ago I read an article by an
eminent authority on cancer. He
stated that about one death In ten
is due to this dreaded disease.
which has such a sinister sound that
the papers seldom name 1t when
printing the obituary OF one OF its
victims. The conquest Of this mon
ster is an object worthy of the high
est endeavor.
III literature be your aim, there
is no limit to the good you can do.
THE modern school OF American
writer's seems inbued with the idea
that realism and rot go hand in
hand 1 hold no brief for the sick
ishly sweet happy ending novel Of
the Victorian era but it seems as
though some modern writer could
learn to tell Of things as they are
without introducing the morbid
strain of odern letters. 1t is time
that somebody learned that there
are streams of water other than
sewers that there are gardens as
well as garbage pals.
''In talking as l have, I have kept
in mind your motto: Always to En-
cell but without losing sight of the
fact that everyone cannot reach the
top. For those of you who may
think that l have set too high a
mark I have this word. There IL
after all bigger task for each of
you-one that can be accomplished
by all. 1t is the making of bet
ter young manhood and young wo-
manhood in New Britain.
Il am not pessimistic about mo-
dern youth. Sure-they are indepen-
dent-lacking in respect to their eld-
ers, frankly outspoken and all the
rest of the things with which they
have been charged. But the past
generation was guilty Of just as great
or greater crimes.
'Times have changed that is all.
OF course the past generation didn't
present any automobile problem to
its parents. Old Dobbin could find
his way home with the reins wrapped
around the whipstock.
Il do not believe that modern
youth is headed for destruction. l
believe that fundamentally 1T is
sound. There is much to do and
always will be in character making,
and so ! say to you. while sympa-
thizing with you as you come to this
parting period. felicitating you on
your plishments and prospects,
after all your greatest field of en-
deavor is your own lives.
This above all.
If thou wilt to thine own self
be true, it then must follow as the
night the day, thou canst not be
false to any man. "