Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1911-11-24
ANDREW CARNEGIE AND TIL
OPPORTUNITIES OF THE
FUTURE.

OPPORTUNITIES OF The
FUTURE.
On the 25th of this month, AndreW
will be IA years of age. 70 ;
celebrate it he has given away a.
other $25, 900, 900, his gifts to the cause
of education, science. peace and tne
general betterment of man kind nc"
reaching the princeiy sum OF $40
OOO, 900.
As the self confessed maker "a
sponsor of 40 millionaires-the suS-
vival OF the fttest Of that vast army /
of young men, who starting as pudieis'
laborers and workers-in-ordinary ~
the great steel foundries OF Penns!i-
vania, have risen to wealth aaa
eminence under him, the Iron Mas'or
ACQUIRES new interest as the weight Oh
time crowds upon him. To the youtn
of the nation, ambitious for material
power, now career in the whole gal
axy of famous Americans, either ma
tive or foreign born, furnishes greagr
inspiration or offers more encouragff
ment, than that of the steel magnale,
who said little while ago: IA
rather be born poor than-a millionafe
and have had experience in bdh
directions"
Between the youth of Carne gts
Iday and the youth of today there's
this analogy-although those with te
nessim; = bent nrefess not 10 - ~
iit-the woridlis constantly evolv Is
Evolution means new opportunity To-
some one and inversely loss OF }p-
|portunity for those who do not hearfn
to the call of the times and keep fp
with the procession. OF this kind vi IS
Thoms Carnegie, father of Andref,
who supported his family operatingf
hand linen loom in his home at Dut
fermiin, Scotland. Welded to trad
ton, the elder Carnegie could nat
foresee the advent of steam looms
which performed as much work in one
day as he was able to do in two weeks
or of the still more efficient oxford
processes which accomplish here in
two days that which takes 30 weeks to
effect in his native town. With the
abolition of the hand loom, the
Carnegies found themselves face to
lface with privation and came to
America. AS good fortuns sometimes
comes in the guise of misfortune so it
was with them. In recounting the
hardships of his boy hood, the scanned
and griszled old Iron Master counts
as the proudest moment of his life,
the day wheD he co. his first job in
America as a bobbin boy in a Penn
sylvania mill and was able to take
home to his mother his modest wage
OF 81 Is a week toward the support OF
his family.
The experience of the elder Car
negie was valuable to the embryo
irenmaster in that it impressed upon
him the truth of the modern business
philosophy that to rest is to rust and
THAT to progress it is necessary to
move with the surging tide as it sweeps
| by. Those who succeed are those who
seize opportunity when it gets into
focus and travel to the crest of the
wave with it. This is what Carne gle
did and what he says every youth in
he land pushed by the cOrmic urge.
may still do. In Carnegie, the germ
of industry was rampant and whe5
went after them. When everybody
turned their back on the inventor oil
the sleeping car, claiming that it was
a FOOLS conceit, and nobody would
take it seriously, Carnegie, back.
ed him for all he had and could
borrow. His shrewdness Melted hin
millions and was the real beginning
of his great future. And while his
competitors in the early days of the
steel industry were Flooding along
/ Will Opoo'CtS iiCtuOdo3 thC Sdbb
Scot slipped across the Atlantic and
Iclinched the American right for the
newly discovered Bess emer process Of
manufacturing that product. This
act of enterprise made him the world S
foremost steel magnate and one of its
richest men.
Has the young man of today like
opportunities TO these? Carnegie says
he has but he must strike out along
new lines and hew his path through
unbeaten fields as he did. I'VE who
now live" said he recently 'are de-
| veloping successors who will far sur
pass us and who in turn will develop
successors who will practically reach
perfection.
While two children of William