The San Francisco call., 1913-09-25
Looking for Opportunity?
Young Men Who Listen Can Win Out, for
1t Is Knocking at the Door Every Day

~ PPoRTUN1TY is said to knock but at the
( \ door Far from it. Opportunity is knocking every
~ day-the trouble is. folks aren't listening.
Energetic and capable young all the
try seeking and graspng opportunities all the time
The difficulty is TO find equality of opportunity That's
proposition.
Nevertheless. equal opportunity
awaits in at least line of manufacturing. and that
the fourth largest in the United Stateshe shoe indus
everyday things really count the
And among everyday things.
put your the morning and take
of at night with thought beyond getting
your feet covered for day think of the
thousands thousands of people who engaged in
making shoes of the large amount of money employed
in the business of the millions
of pairs of shoes that made and sold each in
the United States.
This every-dayness shoes is truly amazing.
examples:
It is estimated that factory 0 years
product of footwear in the United States will
to FIVE hundred million doIlars-over
The people of this country. figured
spend each day in the shoe s2s732so
Statistics show that 21Oss more pairs of shoes
required of this country today than
yesterday; and 21.o6s will be needed tomorrow;
and tomorrow, and tomorrow
This viii be and 1t
will never diminish. Why not then be shoe manu-
facturer? Surely here is Opportunity knocking
a issue of The Fra said:
Shoe manufacturers prosperous people. There
Trust, be-
thirteen factories the United
being formed. 1 of shoe-fac-
in Saint Louis started by employees who have
particular factory in bus
mess on their own account And they all making
money
business left the world so-called Trust,
and the United Shoe Machinery Company is responsible
for fact
Monopoly n making Ebert Hubbard
question, for simple
United Shoe Machinery Company leases its
machines exactly the terms to all manufactur-
ers-whether large small-competiton In shoemak-
free than in other large industry, and
royalty system a shoe
facturer business with small capital which
he several times each making substan-
tal himself total volume of his business
the time giving the consumer the benefit of the
margin of profit each pair of shoes There
is no other big industry of which this is true.
The wonderful growth of shoe manufacturing in
this in recent has been made possible
through machinery service be obtained from
the United Shoe Machinery Company. Herein
opportunity and equality of opportunity.
This Company equips factories with the
machinery made, a and uniform rental-absolute
is the rule preference is shown. The
a~aes rovaItv maid bv a shoe manufacturer for the
use Of all machines furnished the Company
manufacture kinds of shoes is less than
two-thirds pair of shoes-less than
hundredth of manufacturing royalty
paid of all the Companys principal machines
in making most expensive Goodyear welt shoes
only quarter cents par.-a little than
a car Goodyear turn, Mckay, standard screw
these lower grades comprise
shoes made in the United States),
royalties average less than one and one-third
par-less what for postage stamp
yeast This is ell that the United Shoe Machinery
Company receives manufacturing machines for
installing factories. for their by
for keeping them in order through its
service system. nsructing operatives
quired
a significance. meaning very
It's
1t means a shoe manufacturer does not have
tie up dollars in the purchase of machinery
n means that he can devo energy
sfvey making of shoes and selling them 1t
that youngest smallest manufacturer obtains
boe machinery on the same terms as his largest and
richest competitors; freedom of competition in
the shoe industry growth of the small
Many a manufacturer today, among the thirteen
hundred business in thrtyfour different
states acknowledges that his start in bust
ness and success manufactures largely due TO
these conditions
And these conditions also that lively man
ufacturing city tand there many in
every state) manufacture of shoes to its
Industries, and that enterprsing men
with only financial resources have equality of
opportunity manufacturers of shoes
Yes every things that count and shoes
very much day merchandise There's money
in making shoes; shoes be made every day,
Opportunity big knocking for those who
will listen.