Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
What is an Opportunity for
the Young Man?
There Are More Real Opportunities To-day han Ever
Copyright 1879

this question:
Are the opportunities for the young in the present
day and generation equal what they were twenty-five or fifty
years ago-the days of his father and grandfather?
It's question that probably asked in this country thou
sands of times every day important question the in
dividua especially important to the nation For the ma
ton declines which opportunities for the young diminish
We feel that we can conscentiousy and positively say that
REAL opportunities to-day both for young and
young women than they have been
Opportunities are greater BECAUSE POSSIBILITIES
ARE GREATER.
Science machinery organization of all kinds especially
widespread publicity put into mems hands less than
fifty years power of in the boyhood of grand
fathers.
Humanity and the individual powerful their Oppor
tuntes are great proportion the machinery at their
mand.
opportunities great now but this state
ment assuming that correspondent means real and
worthy opportunities
Unfortunately this country where sudden prosperity
great extravaganza the future make
allmporant the opportunity is apt to be synonym
for money Money opportunity taken the
thing.
But we purpose this question quite apart from
money.
Undoubtedly the very able money getter matter how
humble start build up today such fortune
fifty years agoor twenty-five years There are
young without penny that will Tor rather more or
less honestly ACCUMULATED their hundreds of millions in the
years. before the of the country shall
have the Importance regulating accumulation through
increased distribution
There will be- perhaps fewer small mddecass fortunes
piled up there will be fewer in business their
account thanks to the trusts
Many will very large salaries, ranging from $780,
year downward and there will probably be very many
large INCOMES in the land within the next twenty-five
years than there in the last twenty five years.
But when men SALARIES, they do not keep their
money and of the mddeass fortunes shall have fewer
But we trust that our correspondent will agree
money is pretty measurement for opportunity.
What do the merely rich really amount to? When
they dead three years they unknown
and forgotten the pigs and chickens that they ate the horses
that they drove the funde whose time they wasted
Opportunity CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING
WORTH WHILE
And correspondent that the young of to-
day has greater chance do something worth while than
young has had in the history of this country
Our form of government changing the power has prac
cay passed from the hands of the majority of the people into
the hands of a majority of trust stockholders
The young who has genius and force the ability to
lead and the character refuse his share of the po has
great opportunity today 1t is the opportunity to the
government to the hands of those who governed
Working scientists needed sadly lacking all the
great departments of human thought Every of these
fields of intellectual activity research and discovery offers
limited opportunities to young
The newspapers read by millions of human beings every
day, enable the who think ntelgenty the who
will be sincere and interesting at the time to address and
he is able to convnce) million two millions of his fellow
citizens every day in the Was there greater OppOr
tunity than this influencing thoughts of
Every of scientific newspaper will show the young
man glorious opportunity.
Every phase of great industrial organization every
development IN the struggle of manhood against money offers
to the young great opportunity for public service
The horrible poverty and wrechedness the great
contrasting with ignorant and oppor
tuntes unlimited him who would help the poor help
selves to him able to caoe brighten the rich doing
duty
Tins Is the age OF opportunity but the young
tmnk for himself strike his line up
what to do and stick at it, INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING
TIVE ru7Er