3 TTTE SUNDAY. OREGOXTAN, PORTXAND, OC5TOBER 10, 1909. m 1 a m r i , m m v ..aaaaaask. MMHnaHMMHMMMMMBik .bsbmsb 'W?M&m3f. .Jm Four," paid his way by surveying, work which! ' X- X'K I Ti I i fa 1 r i rtew BY E. J. EDWARDS. 0 N THE day after the Jate wnitara C. Whitney waa graduated from Tale College he took a train for New York City. In the aeat with him wu one of hie classmates. Young Whitney ai very quiet. In college he had been the life of hta clasa. popular, a (rood student, a member of all the beet eociettee, among ahem the famous 6kull and Bonea fra ternity of the senior year. Life seemed to be tor him a pathway of roses. His seat-mate asked him after a while what he was thinking about, or If he were re gretting that the deligbful four years at Tale were now ended. After a moment Whitney replied: "Yes. we have had four dellghtrul years. Everythinsr. as I look back at It, now eems' like a dream. We haven't had a care. Moat of us have thought It was going to be that way throughout life. But I have just, begun to realise that the real life work la now to begin. We have got to stop playing, because we - are to face the real world, and to show In It the stuff we are made of. "And do yon know," he continued. "I think that ," mentioning a class mate by name, "la going to have the best of us for a few years. He had to work his way through college. That taught htm what real life Is. It gave him some sense of business, so that he will know how to take up the active work of life better thin any of the rest of us who had a good tima In college while he wae working hard to pay his way through." Incidentally, this raised again the old question, does a college education after ail pay? Mr. Whitney was four or five years getting his bearings In the world , of affairs, and he died 45 years aftehia graduation, having made In the. mean time a brilliant career and having amsssed a fortune of 125.000,000. He was always sure that the training he had received In college served him well In great responsibilities he afterwards as sumed. If a college education pays for thoee who make good use of It. then it undoubtedly pays to get a college educa tion even If the student has to earn It. In these days the work of financing or.ea self through college has been re duced to a science In almost all of the American colleges and universities there ire now organised boards or departments of self-help. These organisations make it possible for any young man who wants ' to- get a college education, but has not at hand the means to pay for It. to se cura employment of some kind. Some of the universities have helped, within the rlsst two or three years, hundreds of students to earn sufficient Income to put themselves through a full college course. Of course, tha opportunities for employ ment of thla Wort are greater In the cities than In thos college communities which are entirely rural. And the kind of em ployment followed by such students varies all the way from pressing "pants' to doing; light responsible editorial work for publishing houses. But in tha old days a student who planned to finance himself through col , lege was compelled to depend chiefly upon teaching, private tutoring, or a loan, which he bound himself to repay with his first earnings after ha had graduated. Ai any rate they were not assisted, aa a general rule, to employment by a college department run for this special purpose. Nevertheless, in those days many am bitious boys put themselves through col late on their own earnings, made while in attendance at college. Some of the men who ars conspicuous today In tha publlo eye, both In the pro fessions and the business world, earned their way through college in this now practically antedated manner. And the careers of these self-same leaders furnish a strong argument to those who belleva not only that a college education Is a good thing, but J-hat it Is no detriment, but a help instead, to a young man who determines to finance himself through tha four years of a college course. Kruttschnitt Pnt Himself Through College. A shining example of how the effort called forth by working one's self through college may help materially in gaining signal success in postcollege life is found In Julius Kruttschnitt. .As the chief operator of the Harriman system of railroads. Mr. Kruttschnitt, as tha public learned at the time of Mr. Harrl man's death, is one of tha most famous railroad operatives of the country. At the outbreak of the Clvl". War Julius Kruttschnitt was close on to his seventh birthday, and his home was in Louisiana. His mother's maiden nam was Penina Benjamin and she was a sister of one of the ablest lawyers and statesmen that ever represented a state in the United States Benate. Her brother, Judah P. Benjamin, was a native of the Island of Jamaica, and therefore was born a Brit ish subject. Judah P. Benajmln resigned his seat in the United States Senate at the time that Louisiana seceded from the Union. He became at once one of the moat Influen tial of the men associated with Jefferson Davis In the attempt to create a new nation. Mr. Benjamin was the Confed erate Secretary of State, and Julius Kruttschnitt. his nephew, has vivid recol lections of the desperate risk hia unole ran when he escaped In an open boat at the time of the collapse of the Confederacy, and made his way to Nas sau. .New Providence. The distinguished fugitive had abso lutely nothing left to him but hia Intel lect and his clothing. He went to Lon don. He was so poor that ha was obliged to writs for the newspapers and maga aines to earn bis living. But aa was born a Brltlst subject, ha had tha light to renew hia citizenship, to be received ss a barrister, and in the course of a few years he became one of the most promi nent of the lawyers practicing in the higher courts, and gained a worldwide reputation as a writer upon legal sub jects. Of all of the many sketches written of the career of Julius Kruttschnitt sines ha became of high authority in the Harri man systems of the railways, not any so far as I have been able to discover has mentioned the fact that h was the nephew of ons of the ablest men of his time tha real brains of the Confederacy. But when this relationship Is known, then there comes soma understanding of that heritage of great intellectual power, a capacity for deciding instantly and cor rectly, and . for mastering great difficul ties, which have enabled Mr. Kruttsch nitt to gain ao great influence that many think he may ultimately be chosen the successor of Mr. Harriman as president of the C'nion Pacific. Wall tha Cirii War practically lmpovw lius. Kruttschnitt, one Four,' paid his way became preparatory, tary Ballinger, of the Taft Cabinet, taught, tutored, and did whatever would help along his ambition. to become a lawyer. if . - . L 4 . " If 4 --A l i?5is. ! E t t 5 if . ;..jk Hi m H ft fi , , - f U" --z.-.-- l&l7i 1 .'lm - 1 h " H R 5 Ci- . L --ia a7 'h f - " " II w' R ' ' i Por.KTrcf 7. Pcsrzsf. nJ - , -V ? ' " W - !' h '." '-' ' . JwzrjzWTOJ ox" & If I x " . 111 I tV Hi - , ! - " 'vn. IriB s ij" ' s - . 'V " - i? v I '.--.- s.x'-- - .If :& II II ' v- .vr;. . "... n' :- i m: -y 7 ) V . -.,11, r , -?s44 - ..? T erlshed his family, but young Kruttsch nitt was determined to get a technical, scientific education. How was he to do it? He had no rich family purse to rely upon: he had nothing but his ambition, his energy and his ability. Nevertheless, tha lad made his way to Virginia and was welcomed as a student at Washing ton and Lee University, one of the edu cational Institutions of the United States. Once there, the great reputation which Ms uncle had gained throughout the South served to bring the boy many friends, and these were able to point out to him ways in which he could earn an Income sufficient to support him while he was in college. He did not behave that it was receasary to do any menial or humble work; he could have found in stantly plenty of employment upon farms with the hos and plow. But he waa patient and self-sacrificing, and at last he gained sufficient knowledge as a sur veyor to enable htm to utilise It In help ing build up some sections of the country near Washington and Lee University which had been devastated at the time of the war. As a surveyor he largely financed himself through college, and he was so good a surveyor, and so well did he Impress himself upon educators in several important institutions who visited at Washington and Lee, that he waa offered several positions as instructor even before he was graduated. He came out of the university owing not a cent to anybody, and took a position as assist ant to the principal of one of the most Important of the private schools at Balti more. But railway men, as well as educators, also heard of him, and learned something of the ability which he had displayed while In college, so that they OTfered him a position, after he had been a teacher for about five years, as resident engineer of one of the railroads then, building In Texas. From that time on his rise in the world of railway activities was very rapid, doubtless due in great measure to the peculiarly appropriate railroad train ing he gave himself while putting himself through college. Mr. Kruttsohnltt has al. ways looked back upon his college days with happy memories, feeling aura that the lessons of self-reliance which ha then taught himself have bean of the highest value In his life work. Cabinet Orflcer Who Worked Eli Way Through College. Even in President Taft's Cabinet the men who have worked their way through college are represented, and the name of their representative among tha official advisers of the nation's head la Richard Achilles Ballinger. If yon don't recall offhand what portfolio he heads, ask Forester Plnchot to drop you the informa tion "on the inclosed postal card." Just 61 years ago Secretary Ballinger was born In the little town of Boones boro. in the state of Iowa. This town Is in the center of a great farming com munity, and when the boy Ballinger waa old enough to help hs took his turn at ordinary farm work. Ha waa a great reader, and everything that was printed which came his way was read by him with avidity. When he was in his early teens the ideaa he had got from his read ing caused him to make up his mind that ha wanted to go to college, because hs hoped soma day to be a lawyer. But how was hs to get through colleger His family was not rich; be did not want to borrow any money from anyone, even if he could find a good friend who was willing to advance him funds needed to pay tha expenses of a college course. He thought over the problem for weeks. Than finally there cam a day whan haj of the Harriman "Big by surveying, work which to his life work Secre went from his home to Topeka, Kan., having made up his mind that, as he had hia health, his energy, his two hands.' he ought to be able to find such congenial employment as would make it possible for him to pay his way through college. Teaching was one of the employments, and ho became a very popular young teacher. He also helped in a lawyer's office. At last, after a preparatory course at the University of Kansas, hs made his way east as far aa Williamstown, Mass. He had heard that at Williams College Uiere were many yonng men who. In one way or another, were earn ing sufficient money to pay their col lege expenses. Moreover, he had heard that living was cheap at Williamstown, and, too, he was attracted to Williams College partly by reason of the promi nence of John J. Ingalls, then a United States Senator from- Kansas, who waa a graduate of Williams, and partly by the fact that President Garfield was the most distinguished of the gradu ates of that venerable university. Young Ballinger found after he had got to Williamstown that there were plenty of opportunities for teaching, some for writing, and some for brief salaried services of one kind or an other during his vacations. But all of his incidental employment was kept well in line with the career which he lad worked out tor himself, that of the law. Therefore, he did not accept ev ery opportunity which came to htm, for he regarded It as of aome importance that, even while he was paying his way through college, he should do this In a manner which would be sympa thetic with or helpful of his early career at the bar. He was graduated without owing a cent absolutely self-reliant and then went across the continent to the state of Washington. He became an author of legal text books, prominent politi cally, and every newspaper reader knows of hia career since he was picked out by President Taft aa a member of his Cabinet. How Preatdeat Butler Workesl His Way Tkrons;h Collesxa. Probably the most suoeessful arad systematic) of all tha methods adopted by students to finance themselves through college was that planned by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, a year or so be fore ha entered Columbia as a student. Dr. Butler's father, who waa a man of prominence and of much Influence in his homa city of Paterson, N. J., was abundantly able to meet all the charges for his son's university educa tion. Moreover, the senior Butler wai convinced that whatever the cost of that education might be, the boy would Justify It In his later career. He also knew the Independence and self-reliance of his son, and he probably was not greatly surprised when young But ler came to him and said, practically In these words: "I made up my mind that It ia tha best thing for me not only to get an education, but to earn tha money to pay for it." The father looked half serioosly and half amusedly at the lad, and then asked him how he expected to pay his way. "All I ask Is that yon let ma have a hundred dollars to get my first start and my bearings," was the reply. "After that you need not worry about my ability to earn enough to carry me through college." K did not intimate to hia father , .. ,- - Tii iia.-'g -J" i II V ' v I how he expected to earn the money, except to intimate his conviction that he would find plenty of opportunities to teach and to do other work in line vith his college studies. So the son received the one hundred dollars and took It and his plan to work his way through college to New York City with him. This plan Involved in part private teaching, and in part association with certain publishers of New York, es pecially those who were publishing magazines or other periodicals de voted to educational matters. Putting it Into execution simultaneous with his matriculation at Columbia, young But ler perfectly systematized his time. He alloted ao many hours of tha day to college work, so many to his editorial work, so many to his teaching. All thla kept him pretty, busy, but he had perfect health, took keen in terest in all the life that waa about him, and that gave him mental recrea tion and he was very careful in his personal habits. Therefore, by the time he had reaohed hia junior year the young man had not only earned enough through teaching, writing and editorial work to enable him to live very comfortably and pay all his ex penses, but he discovered that he was saving. In fact, his savings 'Were so considerable that he was able to make Investments, one of which was so long maintained that through its increase, or the appreciation of the property, it now of itself represents a comfortable fortune. Now, this financing of himself through college was done wholly In line with the life work as an educator which the student Butler contemplated. While he was writing and editing ed ucational periodicals, and receiving for that work good compensation, he waa preparing the way for that mastery of American educational problems which at last was so well recognized that he was chosen first president of Teachers' College, as well as professor of philosophy at Columbia, and still later on. president of Columbia Uni versity. It has always been Dr. Butler's belief that, instead of being a drawback, it might prove to be of the highest ad vantage in development of character, self-reliance, and in preliminary train ing for a career, for a young man to plan to finance hifcself through ool lege. Dr. Butler also holds the opin ion that it is not the best policy for a student to borrow the money needed to pay his college expenses, with in-i tent to earn enough after graduation to make good the loan. A debt of that kind Is always a serious handicap. It Is a great deal better, in his view, to submit to sacrifice and tbe practice of economies that are necessary for any one who Is financing himself through college, than it is to pay the expenses through the use of borrowed money. Weaver's Method of Securing a Col lege Education. Another method that Is sometimes very successfully adopted by young men In order to" finance themselves through college is Illustrated in the college career of the Rev. Dr. George Angler Gordon, famous in ecclesiastical circles throughout the country as the pastor of Old South Church, Boston. Is addition, there is plenty of inspira tion for any young man in tha roman tic career of Dr. Gordon. Born in Scotland 56 years ago, be there learned one of the trades In con nection with weaving which are best mastered In Scotland. Hs was still in his teens when he was tempted to emi grate to this oountry because' ha be- How and why President Butler of Columbia University insisted on working his way through college even though his father was abundantly able to pay for him The method used by Dr. George Gordon and Dr. John. Kinney Hyde DeForest, two distinguished clerics, to get! theirvcollege education, lieved the opportunities to be greater here for one with ambition than in his native land. When he arrived in Boston be had no difficulty in securing employment. He was a very attractive-looking young man, with a splendid physique in fact, the build of an athlete; a great head superbly poised, with a large shock of black hair: heavy eyebrows, and, even then, the face of an orator. He was of religious training, and onoe In the new land, he did not relax for a moment in his zeal as a student of the Bible. So It was natural enough for the young craftsman to find his way Into a Bible class, conducted for young men In connection with famous Old South Church, of Boston. Young Gordon was not a member of the class very long be fore the teachers perceived that he could teach as well as be taught. He always brought some Interesting suggestion or new thought to the class-room. It was observed that he spoke not only correct ly, but with peculiar fluency for a young man. Therefore, It seemed worth while to his elders to bring within his reach some, opportunity for further education, especially ea he confessed to a desire so to be taught that by and by he might be-, coma a clergyman. As a result various friends worked out a plan for financing young Gordon through Harvard. But he was of a sturdy Independence, which led him to believe that any financing would be no more than temporary, and that he would be able himself to earn, either by teach ing or by some congenial occupation, enough to pay In part his expenses, and ultimately to pay back Whatever ad vances were made to him. He was grad uated from Harvard in 1881, and at an age considerably beyond that of the aver age college graduate, for he was 28. That fact alone shows that It must have been very largely upon his own ex ertions that ha was able to get a college education. The graduate was not out of college very long before he was heard from. In the pulpit he was of impressive appear ance, and it soon came to be said of him that he was a born pulpit orator. It so happened that, about this time, the Congregational Church In Greenwich, Conn., of which William H. H. Murray, beter known as "Adirondack" Murray, had been pastor, was. looking for a new clergyman. The church sent a commit tee to hear young Gordon preach, and then invited him to go to Greenwich and preach In the pulpit of the church there. The congregation needed to hear him but once. They wero unanimous In their tribute to the fascination of his pulpit oratory, to the lmpreaoiveneas of his per sonality, and so he was ordained clergy man of the church. But be was too big a man for a country town. The pulpit in the Old South Church, which at that time had become the new Old South Church, occupying one of tha most beautiful church structures in the worid. was vacant, and the officers of the church said to one another: "There Is George A. Gordon, who used to study in the. Bible class in this church: who went to college under the auspices of the ohurch. and who is going to b one of the great forces, not onl of our church, but In the religious IiJG of the United States. Why not ask him to become our pastor!" And so, four years after his graduation, when he was only 31 years of age, he who as a boy had studied In that church's clasaroora became its pastor Since then Dr. Gordon has gained Na tional and International fame. He has lectured in the Lowell Institute course, and was the lecturer at the famous Ly man Beecher course at Yale College. He delivered what many regard as the finest baccalaureate sermon ever preached at a Columbia University commencement, and he has been the university preacher at Harvard, where he is regarded as the master of all that makes a truly great and influential pulpit orator. In a method similar to that which was used by Dr. Gordon to secure his college education. , one of this country's most prominent foreign misslonarita reoelvad tha training that only a college can give to the ambitious lad. When the Civil War was at its height and President Lincoln's administration waa straining every nerva to get reoruitB , for the Arm-, there was a lao. wnose home was on a farm In Southern Connec ticut, who was strongly tempted to en list. . But his friends thought he was too young, saying that if he wero two years older then they would not object If he joined one of the Connecticut regiments. This lad waa of a religious disposition, and waa especially interested in mission ary work. But he waa poor. The farm barely yielded enough to support the fam ily. He wanted to get an education, say ing that if he could pass through college and a theological school, he would at once qualify himself for service as a missionary in the Far East. His name was John Plnney Hyde DeForest. There waa a good -woman of the boy's town who took much interest in him, and believed that, with the proper train ing he would make a very successful missionary. Therefore, she suggested to him a plan by which sho would in part finance him through college, he to earn what he could, and out of his earnings after graduation to repay her for her part if he felt so disposed. The boy adopted the plan and became one of the most studious, quiet and un demonstrative of the students at Yale of his day. But he was always enthusiastic and energetic in missionary work in New Haven. You would find him any Sunday afternoon teaching a class in one of the mission schools, and he spent his leisure hours in hunting up boys and girls who were without religious training and bringing them to these mission schools. At the same time, DeForest, by teach ing, private tutoring, and In other ways, was able to provide himself with funds, so that at last he was graduated, be came a clergyman, and went to Japan. His career in Japan has become a household word in that empire, and he has been regarded as one of the foremost of American Influences, not merely as a religious missionary, but as an educator. In view of his service, .the Emperor of Japan, within a few weeks, deoorated him with one of the most Important of the honorary in signia indicating mental and moral worth and Influence. Our own Govern ment has turned many times to Dr. De Forest for Information, and President Taft looks upon him as one of the most valuable of American influences in cultivating and maintaining the real friendship which characterizes the rela tion of those in authority in the United States with the statesmen and men of affairs of Japan. Governor Who Earned Education. An ex-Governor of New York, Frank S. Black. gained his profound knowledge of human nature while working his way through Dartmouth College. He went to Dartmouth from his farm home in Maine, almost abso lutely dependent upon his own exer tions for his education. He was a teacher for a time and then he became a canvasser for periodicals and other things. As such he gained various experiences- frm which he afterwards drew a vast amount of Interesting anec dotes. Chief among these experiences were those which taught him human nature; and his profound knowledge of this subject worked to no small pur pose in making him Governor of New York State when he waa only i years of age. Besides Mr. Kruttschnitt, our modern life furnishes at least two other prom inent cases of railway men who worked their way through college. A. A. Robinson, who was president of the Mexican Central Railway for some 10 years. In part by his own ex ertions obtained a scientific education at the University of Michigan. And there is another Robinson of no kin to the one who was president of the Mexican Central John T. Robinson, of Savannah, who is acknowledged by rail way men as one of the ablest master mechanics In the United States. The master mechanics are the men who ft' ' . ' U I s . r ! x i ! i . ; . I , x " . 1 v s f " ' . ' c - , - - . :t I I : i . I A t ' " ' f , i i El fc ' ''i Eg- 'i y I-" ' 1 ; ! I," 4.',. ' t V"n il (I ii r . ' . ? -5fi & ' i I . v a IB II ilHlsTslMllllllslBMH iwiiBMiiniii i,f' get together and standardise rallwa equipment, so that It Is possible to run cars all over the United States, al though this Is only a part of their re sponsibility. John T. Robinson earned enough to take a special course at the Virginia Military Institute, a purely scientific and technical course, that led to his speedy employment In railway service and his promotion until he be came the master mechanic of the great Seaboard Air Line system. It will not be necessary to do mora than allude to the Justification of tha purpose of Senator Beveridge, of dlana, to get a college education, even if he had to earn every penny of the cost. His triumph is a matter of na tional knowledge. And another dis tinguished statesman of Indiana, who served in the Senate as a colleague of Senator Beveridge, and who afterwards became vice-president. Charles W. Fair banks, practically paid his own way through the Ohio Wesleyan University. Inventor of Wireless Telephony. Michael Idvorsky Pupln. known as the inventor of wireless telephony, and who, according to report, received $800, 000 for an Invention which Is used in long-distance telephoning. In another notable who put himself through col lege. When Pupln came to this country from his native land of Hungary, he . was without money, nor had he any other education than that whloh he had received in his village schools. He was obliged to seek employment, and found it In an establishment in Brooklyn. There he was brought Into contact with one or two men of science, and they, discovering that he not only had real genius for Inventive work, but also an overwhelming thirst for knowledge, . put him In the way of securing such employment as would enable him to pay his way through Columbia Univer sity. As a student at the university hs stood very high. It was known to the trustees that this brilliant young student of science was by his own exertions financing ; himself through college, and they were . able to secure employment In the line of his studies which made the task of self-support all the easier for him. He was also able to earn funds enough, by his own skillful work as an electrician, to permit him to study physics with Helmholz at. the University of Berlin. And within five years after his gradua tion at Columbia he had gained the at tention of some of the greater men of science by a brilliant article upon a very difficult and technical sclentifio 1 question relating to one feature of elec trlcity. IHLAHTUL STEED. Puck. "The chartre Mfalnrt you." aald the Magistrate, "la that of walking at a furloua rate. " Tie furtlier charged airalnat you that laat night Tou trod tbe pabllo trou without a light. "Four miles an hour upon a publlo way Ia moat prapoeteroua; what have you to say?" Plwaae, alr" the pdatrian ald. "Without a light because my oil waa spent, "But surely thla policeman here will tell That I did not neglect to ring my ball." "Sir," q'uoth the Magistrate in tonea quite CrutT, "Blmply to ring your ball wu not anougn. "TTe are resolved, let me afrain repeat. To proteot autoa in tha public atraet. "Only laat week a coupe waa much hurt By an unlucky child who did a 'apurt.' "The ear waa bloodstained and its front de stroyed Tha Garage Company waa much annoyed. "We must proteot our autoa, T we oan, Against tbe reckless, bold pedestrian. "Fine: Ten dollars and costs, sir your de fense is vain. And never walk without your light again 1" Tha Japanese have no uaa for buttons, buckles or hooks and eyes. Cord eervea everr purpose of fastening and furnishes artieUo. poaaibUltiaa seemingly without and. Irci 108.2T