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There can be little argument that American governments are sadly riddled with corruption; that fact, and the tedious apprenticeship and small remuneration have militated against the entrance of college men into politics. Nearly every organ of opinion has tended to emphasize these more repugnant facts without pointing out that any future betterment must depend entirely on the energies of honest, capable men. Those, therefore who are eminently fitted through training, ability, and character to elevate politics from their rut are discouraged at every turn. There is little honor due the person who cries over spilt milk while holding...
...first with routine work about the office, will later be trusted with enterprises calling for more judgment and iniative. Unlike their colleagues of the news board, they will find the larger part of their activity falling within the limits of the business day. Contact with local advertisers is an apprenticeship for later dealings with the national firms...
...writer or painter can confine himself strictly to his own work, but the architect is compelled to deal with questions of real estate, engineering and even of law, which have no place in the study of architecture proper. The necessity for learning these things after graduation unduly prolongs the apprenticeship of the young architect. The opening of a clinic in the Architectural School of discuss these business aspects of the profession is a timely and intelligent move...
Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...
Less widely known is the early history of Primo Carnera. Born in Sequal, near Venice, oldest son of a mosaic worker, he quickly outgrew an apprenticeship to his father, worked in a cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager...