The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-07-08
OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG
MEN.

MEN.
If young man is bemoaning the
lack of opportunity for success the
first thing he should do is TO see whe
Their his own initiative is not at fault
The opportunity may be at hand, but
he may be failing to take advantage
Of il.
In little town in Missouri a man
stood looking at huge mound of
corn cobs thrown out to rot. The idea
came to him that a good tobacco pipe
might be made of corn cob. He did
not stop with just thinking out the
idea, but he carried it out; he made
one pipe, it was good, and then he
put up a small factory and went into
the bushes. That one idea made
him a fortune, and Missouri manu-
featured rs million corn cob pipes last
year.
Until a few years ago cotton seed
was thought to have no value. Great
piles of it were thrown out TO waste
beside every cotton gin throughout
the South. A man with that peculiar
insight and foresight we call initiative
saw there was oil in the seed and
he rugged up press TO squeeze it out.
That idea has added value of from
$l2 TO Sl4 to every bale of cotton and
has added to the wealth Of the South
200 million dollars year.
In Louisiana great beds of sulphur
were thought to be valueless because
they lay beneath 500 feet of quick
sands, and could not be mined. Many
men went there to study the problem
and gave it up, Then came Frasch,
the man with initiative, and he solved
it by driving an iron pipe down to the
sulphur. Down this he forced super
heated water which melted the sui
phur and it was then pumped up {
through an inner tube. This simple ]
idea made him wealthy and gave to /
Louisiana one-half the sulphur mar {
kets of the world. {
Another man with initiative saw an
to save the by-products of
burning coal that went to waste in the |
smoke of coke ovens. AS one result {
IF his idea the British government re- {
emily made a million dollar con- 5
ract with a big American steel mill q
'or just one by-product of the coke S
wen smoke. u
In Canton, s. c., is factory that [
makes an extract from chips of the
hestnut tree. The used chips were
urned A man with initiative got the n
dea of boiling those chips in caustic s.
oda and making paper of them. Now n
he paper mill Of that company makes "
iore profit than the extract factory.
In every part of this country OPP n
ortunities await the man with initia- u
i've TO convert wasted materials into 81
roftable industries. II
II is estimated that not more than
ne-half the zinc that is mined reaches
ne smelter. 1t is wasted in crude "
avs Of handling. There is chance pc
'r some man with initiative TO make GO
few million dollars. III
For every ton of coal mined one
llf a ton is wasted, In Oklahoma
one % billion cubic feet of natural
rs is wasted each year, and yet in
Ich cubic foot of il are valuable ma
rails which some man with initiative 'r'
i'll some day take out and save.
In every state of this Union are
eat banks of clay that are full of
minimum awaiting the coming of the ue
an with initiative to convert it into
salth.
Arthur d. Little, great chemist of me
,ston, asserts that two-thirds of ev-
y tree that is cut for the sawmill
'es to waste. Twenty gallons of 90
r cent ethyl alcohol may be pro-
ced from a cord of yellow sawdust,
CHI as is dumped out TO rot at nearly SUI
cry sawmill in the pine growing re-
ons. Professor Little predicts that
e time is near when the production
lumber will be mere incident in
e business of numbering; the great
profit viii be made from utilization
the waste for the manufacture of
products.
The young man of today is heir to
of these opportunities and to thou 30
nds of others that will bring for
ne as the reward of initiative.
Tired, Aching Muscles Relieved.