St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-12

ing to enter the business world,
is, in essence, the granting of
group of business fellowships in
the form of actual salaried jobs.
The plan will be launched at a
luncheon at LaGuardia Field, New
York, on July 9th, with Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hon.
Fiorello H. .LaGuardia, President
of the U. S. Conference of Mayors,
among the speakers. A cross-sec-
ton of some of the most noted
people in America in the fields of
business, the arts, music, litera-
ture, theatre, sports and public life
will also be present. The plan has
the active sponsorship and partici-
patton of hundreds of colleges in
states throughout the Union.
Emphasizing that the plan calls
for the creation of new, hitherto
non-existent jobs, to be developed
insofar as is reasonably possible in
those very departments of COM
pany in which the applicant wishes
training for his future lifelong
business career. Walter S. Mack,
Jr., President of the Pepsi Cola
Company, who is initiating the
plan in his organization, said that
he knew of no happier way of COM
memorating a thirty-five year eele-
bration of the bottling of his COM
pany's product, the occasion which
inspired the Job Awards plan, than
by creating new opportunities for
the youth of today.
"The Walter Mack Job Awards
for American Youth is dedicated
on behalf of American business to
American Youth and It's Future, u
said Mr.. Mack. at is our fervent
hope that this years project will
be but the beginning of an ever
expanding program in our own or
ganization, and that other indus
tries will be encouraged to emulate
our example. Indeed, we shall be
delighted to lay before them the
full benefit of our experience in
this direction in order to develop
similar new Job Plans for Youth
in other business organizations
throughout the country. At this
time of rocking world values,
everything should be done to en-
courage the young people of our
country to realize that the preser-
walton of the institutions of Ameri-
can Democracy still offers to them
opportunity, development and sue
cess, and the Walter Mack Job
Awards plan was conceived with
that thought in mind. I know of
no happier way to commemorate
a thirty-five year celebration of the
bottling of Pepsi Cola than by Gre
ating new opportunities for the
youth of today"
The young winners of the Job
Awards plan, who are being chos-
en- by a noted committee from
among applicants in colleges
throughout the country, will be
brought to New York as the guests
of the Company, to be present at
the luncheon and meet with distin-
zguished and successful persons of
the present day, on the start of
their own, first step into the profess
sional world.
"The plan is in essence the
granting of a group of business fell
.lowships in the form of actual sal
zaried jobs" said Mr.. Mack. Gall
winners receive training not only
in jobs created for them where pos
zsible in the departments of their
own choosing, but usually also in
that territory in the United States
where they will be happiest. Each
Job Award is for a year at a salary
of thirteen hundred dollars. At the
end of that time the group will
either be taken into the regular Or
ganization on permanent basis,
by mutual consent, or assisted to
make connections with other bust
ness organizations, backed by the
tremendous advantage Of this
years practical experience.
'The entire group of jobs, thus
vacated, will then be given in turn
to the winners in next years grad
uating classes in a revolving plan.
"What the Job Award Plan seeks
to do" continued Mr.. Mack, els to
create an opportunity for business
training for young people which
will give them several definite ad-
vantages over the haphazard, dis
couraging methods which confront
them today. I have long felt that
American business should do all in