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

this question:
Are the opportunities for the young the present
day and generation equal what they twenty-five or fifty
years ago-the days of his father and grandfather?
It question probably asked in this country thou
sands of times every day It important question to the in
dvdua especially important to the nation For the ma
ton declines in which opportunities for the young diminish
We feel that we can conscentousy positively say that
REAL opportunities are 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 have put into mems hands in less than
fifty years power undreamed of the bOyhOOd grand
fathers.
Humanity and the powerful and their oppor
tuns are great in proportion to machinery their
mand.
Our opportunities great but this state
en is made assuming that correspondent real and
worthy opportunities
Unfortunately in country, where sudden prosperity
great extravaganza uneane to the future make money
aimpOrant the word opportunity is apt to be synonym
for money Money opportunity taken to the same
thing.
But purpose this question quite apart from
money.
Undoubtedly the very able moneygetter matter how
known fifty years agO-or twenty-five years There are
young men without penny that will Or rather more or
less honestly AccUNULATE their hundreds of millions in the
next few years before the of the country shall
have realized importance Of regulating accumulation through
increased distribution
There will be- perhaps fewer small mddecass fortunes
piled up there will be fewer in business on their own
account thanks to the trusts
Many will very large salaries, ranging from $780,
900 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 years
But when SALARIES, they do not keep their
money of the middle class fortunes shall have fewer
But we trust that correspondent will agree with that
money is a pretty mean 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 funldes whose time they wasted
Opportunity means CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING
WORTH WHILE
And we assure our correspondent the young of
day greater chance do something worth while than
young man had in the history of this country
government changing the power has prac-
cay passed hands of the majority of the people into
the hands a majority of trust stockholders
The young has genius and force, the ability to
lead the refuse his share of the pos has
great opportunity to-day is the opportunity return the
government to the hands of those who are governed
Working scientists needed and sadly lacking in all the
great departments of human thought Every of these
intellectual activity research and discovery offers
limited opportunities to young
The newspapers read by millions of human beings every
day enable the who think inegenty the who
will be sincere and interesting at the time to address and
he is able convince) million millions of his fellow
citizens every day in the year Was there greater oppor
tuniy than this for influencing the thoughts of other men?
Every page scientific newspaper will show to the young
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 in great
contrasting with ignorant and oenatou wealth. offer oppor
tunities unlimited him who help poor help them
selves to him able to caoe brighten the rich doing
duty
This the age of opportunity, but the young
think for himself strike out his line, make up his mind
what to do, and stick at it, INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING
ALONG THE USUAL LINES OF LEAST RESISTANCE, doing