Smyrna times., 1949-09-29
Our Greatest Asset:
YOUTI
by A. N. SPANIEL, Chairman
international Latex Corporation

every business and profession in country Specca
Iy, million three hundred thousand young men and
women graduated from the high schools of America;
and over three hundred thousand graduated from
1238 universities and colleges Significantly hundred
and fifty thousand of these college graduates men,
over 7O96 of whom are veterans of World War II.
Here is the wealth of nation in its richest form.
Here they are-young men and women trained to
THINK and eager for work. They are the richest asset
this country possesses and the poorest prospect for
the rabble rouser
These new graduates have the YOUTH the energy,
the mentality and ambition to make useful productive
places for themselves in the system under which they
were raised and trained system in which they
place their faith All they want is the chance to make
their contribution of ss and knowledge to the free
society in which they grew up.
1t is therefore of utmost Importance to our nation
and way of life that they be given the job opportunities
they deserve We know all too well what job scarcity
did to thousands of our best trained young minds dur
ing the last depression They became victims of many
spurious doctrines that promised just about everything
this side Of heaven Dsiusoned and frustrated young
people who walk the streets obess in the richest
tion earth don't find themselves clarifying the Bill
of Rights the Constitution free enterprise sys
tenn nation courts disaster when its young people
begin to examine with bitterness and contempt and
sense of foregone defeat its entire economic structure
in the hope of changing it, often to suit the proddngs
or urgings of the agtator who has an theological
to grind.
In terms of personal need and the needs of our
lion, employment is of first priority. America
not again afford the Illustration the bitterness and the
hopelessness that great numbers of young people
perienced during the 9Os. In such atmosphere the
fear of disaster fourishes.
Fortunately for all of us, not anywhere
near steep or critical depression On the contrary
there indications that American business is settl
ing down to something like peacetime level
mary of the published reports of the profits of 300
companies for the first quarter this year reveals that
their net profits go above last years correspond
ing period Admittedly this picture does not reflect
business whole, yet with measure of vision and
drive the part of American business and professional
people, job opportunities now for these new graduates
of our high schools and colleges be provided, and
without governmental assistance In the end these very
businesses and professions will profit immeasuraby
from the fresh thought and energy our young people
bring to them.
Right now, every individual employer every member
of the skilled professions and every business and in
dustria organization in America has the opportunity
to exert influence to help provide employment for the
youth of America, the nations greatest asset This
kind of effort in democracy pays dividends not mere
ly for years, but for generations
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