Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1913 — IDEA ANNOYED OLD GOLDE [ARTICLE]

IDEA ANNOYED OLD GOLDE

He Knew From Experience That Cola lege Education by No Means Unfitted Boy for Work. “Woodrow Wilson naturally believes hi a college education for boys and girls alike," said a banker at the Princeton clnb in New York. "Mr. Wilson, lunching with me here, once said in his quaint way that the old idea about a college education unfitting a lad for work had quiet died out. “We no longer hear,” he declared, “stories like that of Gobsa Golde. “When Gobsa Golde’s /son Scattergood," he explained, "desired to go to Princeton, he said to the old man: “‘Pater, is it true that boys who go to college are unfit for work afterward?” .“*Of eourse .it ain’t- true!’ snorted the old man indignantly. *Why, I’ve got a Princeton graduate runnin’ my freight elevator, two of my best coal heavers are Harvard A. B.’s and a Yale B. S. Is my star truck driver.*"