(2) Two school teachers, A and B, are working in the same system. A’s ambition is to be promoted and she uses “pull” as the means. For a time she succeeds in pulling the wires, and likewise in pulling the “wool” over the eyes of the Board of Education. B aspires to professional growth, using as the means every opportunity for genuine improvement. In time both are known as they really are, not as they seem to be. A is denominated a “shirk,” a politician, a _mere school keeper_; whereas B is looked up to as the best equipped worker in the building, a _real school teacher_. There may seem to be many exceptions to this point of view, and yet in the last analysis we find that these exceptions are only apparent. When we maintain that right thinking means survival and wrong thinking extinction, we assume that the standard adopted is _genuine efficiency_ and not a _certain money basis_. High positions may be _secured_ through wrong thinking, but these cannot be _filled creditably_ without the preponderance of right thinking. =5. INDIFFERENT AND CARELESS THOUGHT.= It may be advanced as a plausible hypothesis that man, especially if he is an American, finds much trouble for himself, and makes much trouble for the world because of his indifference to thought. To leap first and look afterwards is the spirit of youth, and America is young. _Think twice before you look and look twice before you leap_ is sound logical doctrine. A logically minded man _rationalizes_ every new proposition before he adopts it. He marshals before the mind the favorable points and then bombards them with every conceivable objection. With the steady eye of an honest, earnest, open minded critic, he weighs the unfavorable against the favorable and then accepts the indications of the balance unequivocally. If logic did nothing else save to inspire young people to thus rationalize every doubtful undertaking, it would do its share toward world betterment. =6. THE RATIONALIZATION OF THE WORLD OF CHANCE.= Man seems to be a natural born gambler. He loves to “take a chance” and herein lies much of his unhappiness. Without discussing the evils of the stock exchange, the horrors of the gambling den, and the unbusiness like procedure of the race track, we may merely attempt here to show how _the rationalization of the conception of chance_ may be instrumental in dimming the glare of gambling to the average youth. (1) The meaning of the term chance.