The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-07-06

This Correspondent Does Not See
Much Encouragement Ahead For
The Youth OF The Nation In Seek
ing An Education To Fit Them For
Worthwhile Jobs.
To the Editor of The Republican.
To our boys and girls of today, it is
vast, confusing and disheartening
problem when they know they must,
in obtaining employment, necessarily
compete with millions of unemployed,
among whom are hundreds of thous-
ands of high school and college grad
yates and other specially trained men
and women who are perfectly eligible
and well qualified for even the most
complicated positions in the employ
ment world.
In struggling along through the
jumbled, enigmatic maze Of jobless
millions, the youthful conception of
education and the advantages provided
through it under normal conditions is
badly distorted.
81 don't know what to train for"
they'll say. "The vocational field l
wish to enter is already contested.
any w al CCI L VIC SOlll JlCGVd my Cuu-
cation my chances are about one in
hundred of getting worthwhile job.
Look at the other well educated fel-
| lows around me-they're idle too
What's the use Of spending hundreds
of dollers on a high school education,
OF maybe thousands on college tut
ton? 1t all looks futile to me, so III
take my chances with the rest, minus
the textbooks and teachers!"
Among first, second and third year
high school students especially is this
feeling and twisted opinion prevalent.
The discouraged, disconnected youth
oftimes quits school and seeks job. Ii
he is successful in securing work it
merely means that another unskilled
worker is added to the long list of
manual laborers. 1t means too that he
| because of lack of training, is al
most invariably destined to cling, for a
living, to this secondary subordinate
| position throughout life.
! If he is unable to find a job, which
| is more often the case, the incentive,
| the instructive urge to forge ahead is
quently a resentful, cynical attitude
toward the world in general is created
and cultivated. Dejectedly, the morose
youth resigns himself to idleness. The
fruits born of this respondent inactive
life is manifest through the youths
| becoming, very often, a victim of
some of the innumerable vices; the
ultimate climax frequently being
reached with a criminal record and a
humiliating, future-wrecking prison
term.
If the old adage, "an idle brain IS
the devils workshop, is true-and
have a lot of faith in the ancient
maxim-then the devil here in the
United States should be working over
time and sitting on the supreme
heights of fat prosperity, with an
abundance Of working space to spare.
J. Since all types of brains are avail
Fable and at his command, he should be,
and undoubtedly is, dancing on the
pinnacle tip of sheer delight. He has
put on and successfully execute a
swell program of expansion since 1880.
And why shouldn't his Satanic Maj
esty dance on the dizzy crests Of ella
| ton?
]. Edgar Hoover, head of the FB.L,
! says crime costs the United States APP
proXimately fifteen million dollars an
nually.
To most of us such gigantic sum
seems exaggerated and almost incom-
prehensible. But with youth struggling
tc extricate itself from the dungeon of
despair, we can expect only one thing
that the cost Of crimes will remain
at a maximum, despite drastic meas
ures to combat it!
| WILBERT NATHAN SAVAGE.