Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-27
|NlRKER WINS IN
RACE FOR RICHES
srains. Not Inherited Wealth,
Necessary in Business To-
day. Says B. c. Forbes.
Nv 8. c. FORBES.

l. Ar1srica the workman OF yesterday
...,snftaljst Of to day. And the work.
- to-day will be the capitalist Of
..,,,. Have no doubts on that score.
zen do we hear: 1.-The workman
.s,5.vs hasn't a chance" Hasn't he?
,...sr5ay that complaint was made to
-. man who has been moderately
....sfuf. { challenged II. straightaway
=. thinking on the subject.
..,s see. now. Just who is who and
whc was who.
u,,o are these terrible capitalists, any
Where did they come from7 Were
,.,y ,orr that way or did they make
a .s,rssvss7 Were they once upon time
s. ..sr,,ry workers like the rest Of US? Did
a ,s.v start at scratoh7
d Wells let's start with the (reputedly)
,.b.st man on earth. Was John D.
81 e,,ssfensr born with a golden spoon in
B n, mouth Was his brother William also
Il ,.,rrol,sly wealthy No. John D. was as
B ,,,r as church mouse and borrowed a
,,,5sst sum TO start business on his own
s account
q law about the next in line, Andrew
Sc,rnsus7 Did he not begin in an engine
81 r,or, At dollar or two a week and have
:, slave like grown-up to exc out a
GENDER existence for his mother? No Sill
YER spoon there-not even a steel one;
5 nothing but horn one, ! trow.
The greatest industry in the United
states is railroadng. The first railroad
o-.nt In this country was to Commodore
Vanderbilt He, as all the world knows,
was not reared on any lap Of luxury. The
o-.stsst living railroad man In America is
s lane, j. Hin. He had neither purse nor
influence when he set out to fulfil the in
JUNCTION decreed upon fallen Adam, but
he has worked like a trojan ever since
transforming wldernesses into fruitful
n farms and making two blades OF grass
arrow where only weeds grew before thus
ssrnI1g FOR himself the enVlabIe title,
The Grand Old Man Of the Northwest"
And was not Edward n. Hartman the
son o. poor, underpaId minister. and did
he not do his own capital maklng7
Call the roll Of other great railroad men.
8 dead or alive, and you will find that most
every one Of them began at the very bot
tom. What Of such notable railroad pres
dents as Underwood, OF the Erie; Elliott,
Of Northern Pacific; Ripley, Of Atchlsoni
Willard, Of Baltimore and Ohio; Brown, of
New York Central; Earring, Of ST. Paul;
Hss, Of the Pennsylvania; Bush, Of Mis-
sour Pacific; kruttschnitt Of the South
and Ohio; Truesdale, Of Lackawanna, and
score Of others7 Not one Of them was
born great or had greatness thrust upon
s him, They have won II by the sweat
q their brows and brans.
Not one Of our steel magnates was born
rch Gary the head Of the steel corpo-
ration was none too opulent Illinois
lawyer and President Farrell won his
spurs as a steel salesman. Schwab, 1.-The
greatest steel man Of them ALL" according
70 Carnegie, was once as poor as he Is
s now Tch-he owns more than half of the
\ Bethlehem Steel Corporations SIS ooo,0 900
preferred stock on which 5 per cent divi-
dends are now being paid.
Theodore N. Vail, the genius who has
amazed Christendom by his building up
Of the most wonderful telephone system
+ y the world, system beside which all
others are Lilliputian, has had to start
from scratch-not once, but oftener. No
switchboard operator has been kept as
busy as he.
Was not Edison as scant Of cash as the
uoVerbl7 inventor at the outset? John
Nackay was not burdened with a load Of
4 1hsrIted riches. Neither was Hammond,
Of typewriter fame; nor Henry Ford, the
automobile wizard, whose personal profits
ast year we're In the neiqhborhood of ten
mHIo0 dollars, his confreres declare
Il o. CuNe, the Tobacco KING, mace
rs own gigantic fortune. George B..
coTeyou, head of the Consolidated Gas
= Iompany Of New York, is an ex- stenog-
raphsr. The president Of the largest
,at,ona' bank in the United States, Frank
= Vanderlip, was once a financial news
reporter, and was something even lower
before he got that job, In Chicago.
Tenry p. Dawson, the active head Of
1 ne Greatest banking firm in America, that
y =, ?. Morgan & Co., used TO work on
.Tm curing school vacations. He began
earn his own living about the age GID
" youths are leaving the nursery
Turning to merchant princes, did not
s.on "anamaker start as an GRAND boy
book store? Horace B. Claflin. found
the biggest wholesale dry goods firm
4. me country, and father of John Claflin
~ present able head, began very humbIy.
.scy' Strauss, 8loomingdaIe, Gimbel and
",sr names will spring to mind.
w. the race to day Is not to the born
~, inherited wealth can not keep a
sLnIess son at the head Of any huge en-
Sc Brains, not a bursting bank
81 .n Icrm the all.necessary qualification.
supered sons Of multi m illlonaires are
. ~. often ornaments than useful cogs in
We 'ndustrlal wheel. There is no room in
g, s .eyerish struggle for interfering fig
The winner is the industrious. inteIl-
sy.. Just as he Is the head of almost
r.s,9y industry to-day. There is lots of
2om at the top And the pathway is
.s sr tor all. There are more big jobs
Az, EIng really big men day than there
NJ o'5 ! men awaiting Jobs.
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