The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-29
ROGERS TO
 YOUNG MEN
GET MARRIED EARLY AND HUSTLE
 SAYS OIL MAN.
Learn First to Make Your Hands Support Your Head. Then Head VIII He Given Chance to
 Support Hands,

Don't he pessimist Believe in yourself and your country. We are entering upon an ear of development
 and prosperity unparalleled in the I history of the world. The young man | who realizes this fact is the young | man who will succeed.' said Henry
 H Rogers to d Free Press reporter In | Milwaukee the other day, and that paper added:
 Mir Rogers is a handsome man. | Tall. 1.-the. straight as an arrow. he | towers far above the crowd any
 where. His face is lean and clear cut. | the strong protruding jaw or the 1 fighting man attracting attention to
 him at once. But the severity of his | lower face is relieved by a twinkling. | merry blue eye and lofty benevolent | forehead.
 T have been hammered for years" | said Mir. Rogers. Every one takes q | shot at Rogers at some time or other | in his life. Of course I don't like 1t. | covet the esteem of his neighbors. But what can I do? Nothing that I could say would stop the torrents of | abuse. so 1 say nothing.
 COuntry's Untouched Riches. This country is all right There are l a lot of fellows. soreheads and incom- petents standing around the street
 
 they can't keep this country back. The resources of this great land have only been scratched. The next fifty years will see wonders in the | way of development that even we do not dream of.
 That's why I say to you young | men. don't be pessimistic. Get into the | fight and do mans part. There nev- CT were SO many opportunities as there are today.
 You hear a heap of fool talk about there being no chances for young men today. The trusts have invaded
 and preempted every field of endeav- or. Is the cry on every hand. Nothing | is further from the truth.
 The trusts, so-called, have barely touched the resources that lie waiting | for some one to develop. Better chances forty years ago? Nonsense. Believe in yourself. Have something definite to do and do it. That's all there is to success in life
 ITO many young men want success before they have earned it. They be-
 come discouraged before they have i half tried. That's why the shores of life are strewn with wreckage
 Tt Is my belief that business in this
 country will always be conducted
 along cooperative lines. The old days
 of dog eat dog are over. But why
 should that cause uneasiness? Just
 look at this vast country: think of the
 millions upon millions of acres that
 lie arid and waste in the West. The
 mining resources of this country are
 at present the richest in the world,
 but men who know tell us that the
 future will develop mineral wealth that will make the present look small and pitiful. Don't let the trust buga- Loo scare you.
 The Way of Success. T believe that a man should have
 decided his vocation in life and set
 tied down to 1t in dead earnest by the
 time he is 30 years of age.
 The great trouble with our boys is that they don't like work. They
 like to sit on high stool. wear a
 high collar and oggle the girls. The
 way to get along is to go to work.
 And by that I mean to go to work with your hands. No man ever learn ed business in the office
 What does the president of a rail road do with his son? Does he get
 him q job in the office? Not much. The hoy goes into the shop and learns how to do things worth while. Then after he has shown that his hands
 will support his head. that is to feed him. he is given chance to show that his head can support his hands, Get Married, Then Hustle. And another things: Get married There's nothing like a good wife to make q man hustle. Just look around l you and youll find that nine out or ten successful men of affairs have | married early in life .~ Asked why 1t was that men like | himself. MT. Rockefeller and other men of Gdeat wealth. continued 10 take
 an avtvc part in business when they | might be passing their declining days
 'n well-earncd ease MT. Rogers said l that such activity did not arise from
 desire for more money, or even from
 a love of the power which great | wealth gives, :.. ... 'I suppose it is because we old fel- | lows cant get out. said MT Rogers | we have had our noses to the grind | stone SO long that We would he lost | if we had nothing to do. We work. 1 l suppose. because We have been work | ing SO long that we don't know how, to
 do anything else. l don't believe any | of the men who are being branded on | every side as brisHndS and horse | thieves and what not, really care for | the money, but they are simply in the | same plight as the fellow who had | hold of the grizzly bear by the tail- | they cant let go