Address by President Printed

An address by President Hopkins on" New England Youth and New England Industry," given before the New England Council at its quarterly meeting at Providence, Rhode Island, last March, has attracted such widespread interest that the New England Council has had it published, and copies of it may now be obtained upon application to the New England Council at the Statler Building, Boston.

The foreword to the pamphlet, written by Redfield Proctor, president of the New England Council, follows:

"One of the major objectives of the New England Council is the study and solution of New England problems, one of which is the question of the retention of New England's youth in New England. This has been a great exporting area of young men and young women, many of whom in due time have come to places of great importance, prominence, and responsibility throughout the country and even beyond.

"The duty and responsibility of New England is to provide New England youth opportunities comparable to those which they may find elsewhere.

"In giving thought and attention to this problem, the New England Council has been aided by the stimulating insight into its fundamental nature exhibited by one of its members, President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College, in an address at a recent meeting of the Council. This address, together with the major portions of remarks by other speakers on the same subject and occasion, are herewith presented.

"This whole matter is of the most vital interest to the future of New England, and hence to New England business men. That New England's interests in the long run must suffer if New England business does not attract and retain its due percentage of our best youth seems obvious. This, the evidence indicates, is to be done by affording them opportunities as attractive, financially and otherwise, as are offered them in other parts of the country."