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gineering education. He can get the
best there is available right here in
his own country.
"You'll do well to include one or
two years of cultural training in your
college education. In the engineering
course at Yale, a student is given one
year of cultural education, one year of
general engineering, and two years of
special engineering.
"I shouldn't advise you to spend
more than four years, or five at most,
in college. In those years, you'll get
the rudiments. The rest is up to you;
as you work, you must study on, along
both technical lines and cultural lines.
Nor should I advise the prospective
civil or mining engineer to go abroad
to study. His work will probably take
him into foreign countries, and he
can get his
knowledge of
d
foreign countries then, without loss of
time."
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"But meanwhile all that I can learn
of foreign countries while I'm in high
school and in college will help me,
won't it?"
"Yes. Learn all you can, and go on
learning all through life. The more
you know of other peoples, of their
laws and customs and ways of thinking, the better off you'll be. Don't be
afraid to study history and government and art and philosophy and languages and all the other subjects included under the term of general culture. All those things will help you
Lack of them will
in engineering.
hinder you, keep you from going up.
You must be able to meet all kinds
of men understandingly, and to hold
your own among men of broad .culture
and great influence.
"Another thing. You must be able
to speak and write your own language
well.
The engineer has to explain
his plans and his results in order to
get cooperation. If you're a poor
talker or a poor writer, you will find
yourself badly handicapped.
"Study mathematics and science to
make yourself an accurate thinker.
In those subjects you can't fooL yourself with slipshod thinking, and you'll
develop habits of thought that will
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ion the best foundation a boy can
get for any line of work law or business or whatever he may choose is
a scientific education.
"If I can crowd two or three extra
subjects into my high school course,
are there any special ones 'you'd
recommend?" you want to know.
"Every engineer should know something about business," answers Mr.
Hammond.
"If you can study bookkeeping and banking in high school,
and perhaps get some practical experience in them through summer vacation work, you'll be wise to do that.
"In these days, the man who knows
both engineering and business has a
chance to rise to unusually desirable
positions. If I were a young man, I
should take what is called an administrative engineering" course
that
is, of course where you get a broad
knowledge of engineering together
with a comprehensive business course.
A man with such training if he is
anything of a leader, is he has organizing ability, will some day be the
head of a great industry."
There's a glimpse of the future
in engineering!
But you've got to work to win it.
It will be a long climb.
"I've got to work my way through
college," you say.
Others Are Working Their Way
Mr. Hammond's quiet smile is somehow reassuring.
"It isn't" easy, but
it can be done," he tells you.
"I
know a good many boys, engineers in
the making, who are working their
way through Yale and Harvard and
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. They're developing resourcefulness and showing a determination
that will recommend them to employers. If you're such you'll need the
health and the qualities you'll need
for success in engineering, you need- n t be afraid of having to work your
way through college.
"Better to work your way through
than to give up engineering or to go
into it without training. It's hard
for the man without a technical education to work up in engineering.'
Comparatively few do. Yet, it's not
impossible.
One of the finest fellows
and best engineers I've known worked
up without college training.
"He came to me years ago when I
was in charge of mines in Mexico, and
asked, lAre you the manager? Have
you a position for me?'
'The young fellow looked pretty
much the tramp; yet there was something likable about him and I asked
what he could do. He told- - me that he
had been left stranded about 100 miles
from the mine by unscrupulous pro
moters who had engaged his services
as an assayer. It developed that he
had no technical education beyond a
knowledge of assaying. But he seem
ed alert and intelligent, and I found
a place for him. Started him on a'
small salary.
"Soon I found that his knowledge of
his work was increasing out of all
proportion to the experience, he was
getting. I discovered that he was putting, all his spare time in on study,
working late into the night, perfecting
himself in the details of work far
outside the province of his own job.
"When I left the mine to return to
the United States, he was appointed
my successor.
"Later.'he worked for me as assistant manager of a California mine
under my charge; and then, upon my
recommendation, was appointed superintendent of an important mine in
Idaho. That mine is today the greatest silver-lea- d
mine in the world, and
to him is due much of the credit for
its success. When I went to South
Africa, I took him with me as chief
assistant. He remained with me for
several years, when he returned to
this country. Before his untimely
death at the age of forty-fivthis
man who had built up a fortune of
more than a million dollars by his investments in mining properties and
had equipped himself technically so
wll that he held a place in the front
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rank of the engineering profession
"But only a hard worker of rare
ability could accomplish so much,
handicapped as that boy was in the
beginning. The average boy shouldn't
count on being able to climb high
without technical training."
Well, you'll earn that training. You
wonder how long it will take to get
to earning a good living after you've
earned your training.
"At the start, look for the place
where you can learn most, not for the
one where you can earn most, Mr,
Hammond advises. "Perhaps in min
ing engineering you will start as an
assayer at $150 a month. Perhaps
in another line of engineering you
will get more; perhaps not. But what
you want in any line is a mainte
nance salary and a chance to learn
"Of course, if you marry at an early
age you may have to put the chance
to earn above the chance to learn. But
if you marry a girl who is a thinker
and a comrade, as engineers have a
way of .doing, she won't want you to
sacrifice too much of your chance
to learn.
"As you work on up, plan that
after you've saved something for
rainy day you'll take as a Jarge part
of your salary an interest in the property you're developing. Many competent mining engineers who have done
this have acquired, while still comparatively young, independent incomes
that have enabled them to return to
the comforts of civilization as their
families are growing up.
"But no dream of making a fortune
should lure a "boy into the work. In
the engineer's younger years, he must
give up so many of the pleasures of
civilization, must face so many hardships and encounter so 'many- - grim
chances that only genuine fitness for
the work and a real love for it will
carry him through to success. To the
engineer, achievements must mean
more than 'money.
"Every man, however, must consider the financial side. The competent
engineer may look forward confidently to earning a good living.
"The engineer who wants a larger
salary can get it by the simple process of making himself indispensible.
The well trained man who is a worker
can 'do that. Of course, I don't mean
that a man should work so hard he's
Back in the old
likely to go stale.
days in Africa, I sometimes went into
the Johannesburg offices over the
week-en- d
and drove out the group of
young engineers I'd find in there
working over blue prints.
"'See here,' I'd say to them, 'on
Monday morning I'll be wanting to
discuss plans with you. I don't want
to find you dull from too much work.'
And I'd drive them out for a tramp,
or take a crowd of them home for
luncheon with me.
"Just the same, that group of keenly interested, ambitious workers made,
the best engineers. There were others whom I never had to drive out of
doors; they were the first to stop on
Saturday noon, and the last to appear
Good men,
on Monday morning.
some of them; but they didn't make
themselves indispensible
and they
didn't forge ahead." Big Opportunities
As Mr. Hammond pauses, you go
back to one of his points: "You spoke
of mining engineers who acquired a
financial interest in the property they
were developing," you remind him.
"I'd like to know more about that. It
sounds like one of the big opportuni
ties in the work."
"It is. The mining engineer is in
an excellent position to buy interests
in the best mines. The wise man does
it. Frequently, the engineer has the
chance to discover and open up a new
mine. He risks his reputation in the
report that he makes. If the mine is
improperly developed or if the business side is poorly managed, the engineer's reputation will be damaged.
He is justified in stipulating that he
shall own stock in the mine, and that
he shall have a. controlling voice in
the technical management.
"When an engineer has established
a reputation for reliability, the fact
that he owns an interest in a mine
gives confidence to the public.
The
engineer should never forget that he
is serving the public, not the promot- er. That is a matter not only oi
honor, but also of common sense. Get
the confidence of the public, and the
promoter must come to you whether
he likes you or not promoters who
had precious little liking for me personally have come to me simply because the public' trusted me.
"A mining engineer who knows both
the technical side of his work and the
business side is in a position to reap
high financial rewards. But after he
has provided for his family, money is
one of the lesser satisfactions.
"The engineer is a doer. His greatest pleasure is in achievement. He
may discover some chemical secret
that will revolutionize an industry and
bring added prosperity to many. He
may span a South American canyon,
bringing the pieces of his bridge into
the wilds packed on muleback, building under difficulties but taking care
that every piece is set in the right
position. In the end, he sees that his'
work is good, that it will serve
through long years to come. What
pleasure greater than that?"
The pleasure in doing!
That's the
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gineer who is improving the pattern morning when the mail brought Mr. down in South America in AfriS
of a railroad locomotive, say; or of Kipling a request for a poem that Siberia where many discoveristawd-development- s
the civil engineer who is digging the should add to the celebration of thv
are yet to be made.
tunnel through which the locomotive Queen's diamond jubilee. "The Reces More than ever.he must be the fear- will eventually whistle its way; or of sional is that poem. Hanging next less pioneer.
the electrical engineer who is working to "The Recessional" is a noem writ
Then Mr. Hammond adds a
out the best method of 'electrifying" ten by Kipling as a Christmas present word of caution:
"No bov should
the railway system. They're doing, for Mr. Hammond in 1898. It is writ- up engineering without being
ten in Mr. Kipling's handwritintr and
achieving.
is well qualihed for the work.
"There are plenty of things to be was said by John Hay to be one of his world needs good lawyers, good
s,
you reflect. "Engineering can't best poems.
done,"
good business men. It doesn't
The friends of an engineer: famous need mediocre engineers. Follow the
be overcrowded, as some professions
writers, rulers and inventors and fi line for which you are fitted:
are."
Bt
"No," says John Hays Hammond, nanciers, generals and statesmen, ac if engineering i3 your work, yoa eaa
"I think there will always be a de- tors and labor leaders. You're getting De sure of a chance to serve as
mand especially for engineers of the ' another glimpse of the future in engi- pioneers have alwavs served1 the
"
administrative type. The whole fu- -' neering. Oh, you won't let yourself world."
ture of the world lies in the develop-- j be led astray by too highly exalted
As you pass throueh the bier recen- ment of industries; every year brings ideas of what may be possible for tion hall on your wav out. the
irreat
new industries and new demands for you. Yet it's good to know that the African lion' seems
to eye you
bit
competent engineers.
The engineer doers of the world give their friend- more warmly. You want to stopa and
of tomorrow will come into greater ship to the engineer.
ask him:
importance than the profession has
"You'll want to see this photo'Old fellow, do I look like a scrap
ever knwon.
graph," Mr. Hammond
is saying. per?" Will I ever be a fighter in far
"Moreover, engineers will come to "This is James Marshall, the man places? Or perhaps in near? Do
play a greater part in the affairs of j who discovered gold in California."
you think I have in me the makings
government, in staiecrait, in me au- James Marshall fearless pioneer of a
engineer?"
justing of internal relations than they
the sort the engineer must be. You
But you don't stop. Good old lion.
ever have before.
put something of that thought into but he can't tell you. You must fig
"The engineer of broad experience words.
ure things out for yourself. And
in
is particularly well fitted to serve
"Yes," Mr. Hammond says, "in the thanks to John Hays Hammond, you
public affairs. His training and the: future, many an engineer must work have a good start.
exactions of his work have madte in still more remote wild places clear
The American Boy
him honest, accurate, keenly analytic,
resourceful, aggressive, and fearless.
He's an organizer. He understands
human nature, for he has had to learn
how to handle men. And many an
engineer has learned statecraft in far
in China, India, Siberia,
countries
- -hobby,
we believe
South America. Through his work,
be
he has gained the knowledge and per
conspective that will enable him to act
wisely in affairs of government.
"In the past engineers have been
inclined to keep out of public affairs.
Engineers are straightforward men,
men of action; they are irked by the
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delays and roundabout methods that
are sometimes expedient in public
affairs. But we're beginning to recognize government as a vast engineer
ing undertaking, and I think engi
neers are beginning to realize that the
well trained man must not refuse to
help in affairs of state."
Mr. Hammond himself does not re
fuse. That you know. Back in 1912,
he was president of the Panama- to
Pacific
Exposition Commission
Europe; the year before that, he had
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practices what he preaches.
You get up ,to go. Reluctantly. For
an hour or more, youv'e been something of a mining engineer yourself
discovering in 'John Hays Ham
mond a mine information and in
spiration. You hate to leave. But
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If you've done so, Mr. Hammond
does not let you know it. He detains
you with a remark that shows he has
observed your glances at the hundreds
of framed photographs that hang upon the study walls.
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so that you may have a closer look
at those friendly photographs autographed, many of them, with a personal word for John Hays Hammond.
Men of Action
The friends of an engineer, the
friends many of whom are still living, some of whoni have passed on
that Mr. Hammond has won in a, long
and active life; President Coolidge,
Mussolini, ClemenCeau, Lord Bryce,
Lord Gray, Alexander Graham Bell,
Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank,
Hiram Maxim, Charles M. Schwab,
Samuel Gompers, Mark Twain,
Richard Harding Davis. . . .
"Yes, I've known personally all of
them except one," Mr Hammond tells
you with a reminiscent little smile,
"I didn't know personally Abraham
Lincoln" his gesture directs your attention to the large photograph in
the center of a group "but his son,
Bob Lincoln, gave be that photograph. General Grant, here, I knew
in my boyhood."
You find seven presidents of the
United States among hose photographed friends; and many others
friends; and
who are outstanding
many others who are outstanding,
each in his ovvn calling: General
Pershing, Colonel House, Andrew W."
Mellon, Henry Ford, Conan Doyle,
John Drew, Rider Haggard
You linger a moment in front of
the photograph of Cecil Rhodes, "the
Empire Builder" and the founder of
the Rhodes scholarships Mr. Ham
mond was his consulting engineer at
one time, his friend at all times.
Near a photograph of Rudyard Kip- ling, hangs a framed copy, hand-writen, of Kipling's famous poem "The!
Recessional" a copy written, so you
learn, by Kipling's father and signed
by Kipling himself. Mr. Hammond
tells you quietly that he was break- fasting with the Kiplings on the
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