Health and safety are conditions common to all industries.

The nation does not maim and slaughter its workmen by thousands, as did the private capitalists and corporations of your day." "When there are more who want to enter a particular trade than there is room for, how do you decide between the applicants ?" I inquired.
"Preference is given to those who have acquired the most knowledge of the trade they wish to follow.

No man, however, who through successive years remains persistent in his desire to show what he can do at any particular trade, is in the end denied an opportunity.

Meanwhile, if a man cannot at first win entrance into the business he prefers, he has usually one or more alternative preferences, pursuits for which he has some degree of aptitude, although not the highest.

Every one, indeed, is expected to study his aptitudes so as to have not only a first choice as to occupation, but a second or third, so that if, either at the outset of his career or subsequently, owing to the progress of invention or changes in demand, he is unable to follow his first vocation, he can still find reasonably congenial employment.