Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SUCCESS YOU have heard of the man who claimed that he had never done a day's work in his life. ln the case of some men, that statement would not have sur- prised you. But in the case of this particular man you know that he had lived a busy life and had done great deeds. The reason that he could claim that he had never done a day's work was that his work had been all play to him. Dr. Jordan says that Success is doing what you would like to do anyhow, and getting paid for it. The secret of happiness is to make what you have to do coincide with what you would like to do. We really ought to make our avocations our vocations. A graduate of the Manual Arts High School recently went from these happy halls to a place where the men watched the slowly moving hands of the clock for the end of the clay. They longed for Sunday that they might do what they would like to do, and they longed for the brief summer vacation that they might work hard at what they termed play. It might be trimming up the gar- deng or it might be making an oak table or a chair in the improvised carpenter shop: or it might be tramping thru the mountain forestsg or it might be painting a pictureg or it might be writing a book. Some men do these things and get paid for doing them. Benjamin Franklin relates that when he was eight years old his father took him by the hand and led him to the miller and the baker, to the blacksmith and the wheel-wright, to the carpenter and the mason, to the merchant and the printer, to see what manner of man he wanted to be. With the multiplication of oc- cupations into the hundreds, this problem is no longer so simple. Besides, so many places now have the sign No Admittancef' or Keep Out. It is well if the period of leisure at school has afforded us time and oppor- tunity to select from the numerous fields of human endeavor, in the professions, in agriculture, in commerce, transportation, manufacturing, and home-making, the field where we may be of the greatest service, because probably, where we can serve the most, we will be most successful and most happy. A. E. WILSON.