South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-02
0ppOrtunity's Door
Opens Wider
BY b. G. Forbes

The door Of opportunity is opening
wider for Americans.
We are merging from insularism
10 internationalism.
We are today as never before
world power-a world power po-
litically, a world power financially, a
world power agriculturally, a world
power industrially, a world power in
tellectually.
We shall soon take our place at the
head of the table around which will
gather the representatives OF the
great nations now at war and those
about to enter the war.
Our energies, our activities and
our ambitions have burst the con-
fines of our shores
And how inspiring are the oppOr-
tunities that our new International
ism lay at the feet of our young and
our mature men of enterprise and
ability and application!
The whole world, instead Of our
own land, has become the stage for
the exercise and exhibition Of Amer
lean talent.
Thornton. a brilliant officer of the
Long Island railroad. has been called
to manage one of England's greatest
railroad systems. and has already
won the encomiums of the whole
British nation.
Goodnow, the scholar. was requi-
sitioned by the infant republic of
China to teach her how to walk in
straight governmental paths, and his
-1ccess both here and there has won
or him the presidency of the far
famed Johns Hopkins university.
Carrel the medical wizard of the
Rockefeller institute, has gone to the,
seat of war in Europe and has per
formed medical miracles, receiving in
return a wealth of experience that
will later be available for our own
people.
The strongest banking corporation
in the far east came TO New York for
a man to conduct it's worldwide
ramificatiOns.
Americas invasion Of foreign bank
ing fields. just begun, has given sew
eral score brainy young American
bankers opportunities for interna-
tiOnal experience which never would
have come to them under our ana
chronistic currency system OF one
year ago.
AT this rlouent a small army Of ag-
greSsiVe american statesmen and 9TH
er business representatives are pene-
trating into unexplored commercial
the Cape of Good Hope in the south
TO the rid, undeT eloped slopes of
awakening Siberia and the northern
boundaries Of China.
0ur dep 4rtmenu of commerce has
sent picked men to investigate poten-
tial markets for American wares in
every quarter of the globe.
The door of opportunity is today
wider open 10 the poor and the plod-
ding than to the rich and luxury-lov-
ing.
Brains, not birth. counts
Perseverance. not pull" wins.
Industry, not influence, earns the
prizes Of the modern financial, COM
mercial and railroad world.
The head of the greatest indus
trial enterprise in the world the
United States Steel corporation,
started humbly; the head of
the greatest bank in the United States
at one time wore overalls; the presi-
dent Of the greatest railroad system
in this or any other land rose from
the lowest ranks; the president Of the
greatest trust company in the cOun-
try is ex-farm 10y; the greatest
automobile business in the world was
founded and developed by a youth
who was as poor as a church mouse;
so, too, was the greatest oil enterprise
the world has ever known-and so it
goes all along the line.
Ornaments everywhere are being
brushed aside. no matter how many
millions they may have in the bank.
The ittest, not the richest now
make the most enviabIe marks.
Pampered sons of plutocrats may
shine for a time in society" but not
in the world OF affairs and of service
unless they rip off their coats and get
to work early and stay late.
To be born with a golden spoon in
the mouth is more of a handicap than
a help in attaining worthwhile sue
cess in this age.
The goddess of success smiles more
often upon the humble hard worker
than upon the high-bOrn dilettante.
Opportunity plays no favorites.
The prizes are open to all.
And never before were the prizes
so big or so numerous.
The whole world has been opened
up 10 the youth and the geniuses of
America.
America now thinks and acts inter
nationally
Hence OppOrtunity's door has been
opened wide as the world.
The passports are not hid IN mys-
terry; they are zeal, study, sincerity,
honesty. industry courage. faith. am
bitiCn. deserVedness.
These are within reach OF all.
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