Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — ABILITY ALLOWED TO WASTE [ARTICLE]

ABILITY ALLOWED TO WASTE

Situation Exists That Is Not Flatterins to the Intelligence of the World. ■v 1 "■ For some reasons it is fortunate that we do not, as a rule, appreciate how much ability is wasted in this world, remarks the Boston News and Courier. If we did our opinion., ,of man’s intelligence would not be very flattering, to say the least. On the other hand, however, it is quite probable that if we did realize something of the vast amount of ability that goes to waste we would do all we could personally to check this loss. A large part of this wastage is accounted forby the fact that there are d great many persons who tmconsciously wnd yet mnat earnestly develop their weakest Instead of their strongest faculties —unconsciously because they are entirely ignorant of their real possibilities, earnestly because they are trying to do their best with the limited means at their command. Of course, many of these persons, willing workers though they may be, are not able to tell in what direction their talents lie because they enter into the serious business of making a living with untrained minds and try to dig success out of whatever comes to hand first. They do not take the Hma to decide In what direction their natural bent Iles, either through lack of opportunity or failure to appreciate the necessity for doing so; consequently, they are all at sea for a while and work with only a small percentage of efficiency, if indeed, with any worthwhile results at alt