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work with sympathy and pride ; who are incompetent, un- 

 trained, and positively a detriment to industrial progress. 



How to correct this unfortunate attitude ; how to instill 

 into the minds of young people a respect for honorable toil ; 

 an honest pride in work ; a desire to train for a task, to 

 study it, to master it ; how to develop in industrial workers 

 that old-fashioned pride in their calling, and contentment to 

 labor within its bounds, — these are questions the answer 

 to which will be furnished only by appropriate educational 

 influences. 



The third industrial condition which is pertinent to this 

 discussion consists in the prospective changes which all 

 industries in this countrj' seem destined to undergo, and 

 which will increase the difficulties of their successful and 

 profitable prosecution. It seems quite certain that raw 

 materials will increase in cost and scarcity, and that sharper 

 competition will cut down the margins of profit, so that 

 presently many industries which have had a golden career 

 because they were exhausting mines, destroying forests or 

 sapping the fertility of the soil, with little competition and 

 with unsatisfied markets, must be deprived of these ad- 

 vantages. Profits will then depend upon shrewdness of 

 management, upon scientilic methods, — in short, upon con- 

 ditions which can only be the result of education and train- 

 ing. American industries must contemplate the time when 

 their activities Avill include not merely a profligate harvest- 

 ing of natural resources, but production and conservation 

 as well. When this time shall come, no industry can be 

 profitably conducted except by those who have some degree 

 of scientific training applicable to their share in the work, 



whether it be sfreat or small. This ao-ain indicates educa- 

 te o 



tion as the chief resource in correcting or supplementing 

 industrial needs. 



In thus pointing out certain weaknesses in the indus#ial 

 situation, vi/., (1) the quality and character of industrial 

 workers, (2) the mental attitude of the same, and (3) 

 changing industrial conditions, — mention is made of those 

 which seem likely to most affect the future of industry in 

 America. Certainly they are of great importance, and. 



