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Page 145 - That for the purpose of this act the term 'persons disabled' shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative occupation...
Page 82 - If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible : Are you able to save money ? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
Page 8 - ... leave for him? Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation; a mind trained to think and act; a nervous system true as a dial in its response to the truth about you? Will you, Boy, let him come as a man among men in his time? Or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had the chance to touch it?
Page 74 - If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before...
Page 82 - Extravagance rots character; train youth away from it. On the other hand, the habit of saving money, while it stiffens the will, also brightens the energies. If you would be sure that you are beginning right, begin to save.
Page 8 - ... has had the chance to touch it? Will you turn over to him a brain distorted, a mind diseased, a will untrained to action, a spinal cord grown through and through with "the devil-grass, wild oats"?
Page 47 - This education required 12 years of schooling of 180 days each, a total of 2160 days in school. If 2160 days at school add $20,000 to the income for life, then each day at school adds $9.02.
Page 8 - Or will you fling away his hope, decreeing wantonlike that the man you might have been shall never be ? " This is your problem in life ; the problem of more importance to you than any or all others.
Page 7 - What will you leave for him? \Yill it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation, a mind trained to think and act, a nervous system true as a dial in its response to the truth about you? Will you, Boy, let him come as a man among men in his time?
Page 139 - Bookkeepers and office workers 36.5 Enginemen and trainmen (railway) 37.4 Plumbers, gas fitters, and steam fitters 39.8 Compositors and printers 40.2 Teamsters, drivers and chauffeurs 42.2 Saloon keepers and bartenders 42.6 Machinists 43.9 Longshoremen and stevedores 47.0 Textile-mill workers 47.6 Iron molders 48.0 Painters, paper hangers, and varnishers 48.6...