Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-08
CHANCES FOR YOUNG MEN.

What shall the young man by inher-
itance possessed of a considerable cap
ital do? Most young men who are at
to live in mans world want to do
something. It would be easy to make
investment in securities that would
bring an income sufficient to their
needs and desires. That would be the
lazy and utterly selfish way. But most
of the young men want to do some
thing and be something beyond the
money father left them. What is the
ambitious and earnest young man with
capital to do?
LOCKER On's column Tuesday told
somewhat OF the rise of a nanufactur-
ling Industry in a small city, II is the
old storysover- of the little shop that
grew into a big factory. In this same
Iowa citw of about 5000 another large
manufacturing institution grew the
same way to even greater proportions.
Men with small capital had the sand
to begin, the willingness to work and
the patience tol wait. So the business
grew. and these men became not only
wealthy men, but something better,
I and to them and theirs more gratifying,
foremost citizens of their city by rec
IGNITION Of their ability. y Ais
iowa is rife with similar possibili-
ties The evolution Of the state from,
purely agricultural and commercial
community to place among the in
dustrial states is but fairly under way.
| The field it offers to young men with
brains, capital and ambition is especi-
ally attractive The eastern and mid
die state cities that counted 5000 to
90, 900 population twenty-five years
ago. and now number from 10000 to
100, 900, grew entirely upon the manu- :
featuring interests that sprang up in
the abandoned trail of real estate spec
ulation. We have arrived at the point
where land in Iowa is an investment
with little of the speculative about It.
We are due for a growth Of industrial
enterprises such as have grown up and
built cities and fortunes on the east
banks Of the Mississippi. The chance
for the young men is open.
The Circle Magazine has been in
vestigating the. Industrial opportuni-
| ties Of the mid western states, and tes-
titles thus:
The great agricultural regions Of the
middle west Iowa in particular, offer
| fruitful field for diversified manu-
features. New England has been de-
veloped as manufacturing community
because of her water powers, her trans
portation facilities, and her generous
supply Of labor: but she lacks raw ma
terial and foodstuffs. She imports
foodstuffs from Iowa and ships her
| manufactured product to Iowa, thus
paying freight both ways. besides
! freight on the raw material
There is no famine of factory oper-
atives in the middle west. A recent
advertisement in New England pa
per calling for fifty metal-stampers to
come to Iowa was answered by over
4 800 women and girls within two weeks.
| 1t is fair to presume that each of them
was willing to come here for steady
| work, improved conditions, and in
creased opportunities.
There is no lack of power in the mid
die west, which, with it's vast coal
field, it's oil and gas fields, it's already
\ developed water powers, could easily
within the next twenty-five years turn
as many wheels as are now running in
all America.
Raw material of many kinds is foun6
in the middle west in profusion, and
/ the freight on such as must be brought