The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-03-13
State President John M. Whitehead the
Guest OF. the Local Branch of
the Y. m. C. A. Sunday.
He TALKS OF OPPORTUNITIES.
Senator whitehead Gives Some Good Ad-
vice to the Young Men of Kenosha.-
Greeted by Large Crowd.

branch of the Young Mems Christian
Association, it being the event of the
first visit of State Senator John M.
Whitehead, ~of GAINESVILLE, the State
president Of the Association. Senator
Whitehead kept open house most Of
the day and made the acquaintance OF
many of the members of the assocla-
ton and their friends.
In the afternoon at the regular meet
ing for young men fully three hundred
men gathered in the auditorium of the
hall to hear an address by Mr.. White
head on the subject Opportunities. =
The meeting was one of the greatest
the men in attendance represented the
entire city. The meeting was pre-
sided over by Peter Fisher and the
Arion quartette and Mr.. Samuel An
derson furnished the musical numbers
on the program.
The address of Mr.. Whitehead was
splendid one and the young men who
heard it gained great deal of good
advise. It was not lecture or an adj
dress, but an informal, simple, unre-
served and direct talk that went
straight to the mark. Mr.. Whitehead
spoke of the work of the Association
and stated that the idea of the associa-
ton was to cultivate the christian life
among it's members and dispense it to
the world. In fact to carry out the
real purpose and the real work that
Jesus Christ started on the earth. To
make christianity a thing that could
be used in the every day workday life
as well as on Sunday. He held that
all there was of good or evil IN the
world must be wrought by man or wo-
christianity was for this world as well
as the next. The part which the
Savior of mankind plays today is to be
part of business as well as religion.
He then spoke of the fallacy of the
"Dream of Opportunities and de-
clared that the opportunities for the
young man were not found but made.
He held that there was no law of op-
portunities, but that the man who
works makes his opportunity for sue
cess, developing it day by day with
hard labor. The opportunity is
simply suggestion, and must be
worked out to make the success that
attends it.
Mr.. Whitehead spoke of Lincoln, Of
his lowly home, but the splendid man.
ner in which he took up these
strange conditions and worked from
them great mass of what the world
had called 'golden opportunities" He
said that Lincoln took men as he found
them and the conditions as they were
and developed from them his greatest
position in life. He spoke of Col.
Roosevelt at the battle of San Juan
Hill. He declared that this was not
the Selling of an opportunity but that
the force of the life which President
Roosevelt had led made it impossible
for him to fail to lead the soldiers to
the glorious victory of San Juan. It
was not a matter of choice for him but
a matter of necessity.
In concluding Mr.. Whitehead spoke
of the great responsibility that rested
on the young men of Kenosha. He
urged them to stand boldly and to-
gether to bring about conditions offer
ing an opportunity for a better and
more representative municipal gov
eminent and one which would be the
result of the grasping Of conditions Of
ering the best government for the city.
After the meeting was over Mr..
Whitehead held short informal recep-
ton and was presented to the leading
men of the city who were in attend
ance at the meeting.