Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1919-04-24
The Big Chances Not Gone.
BY Newell Dwight Hill;s.

LHes Wisest teachers are work. teratur politics. religion inc conversa-
ION With the people one meets. Every man is an xper o. some ne subject.
and during his best mood in conversation. will pen his Do of memory
md offer u all his treasures Recently omr men We're in the stateroomc com
ing from Boston to New York. The secretary of one brought in a message ad
during the conversation this young ecraryr referring to me of the great fnan-
cilh figures of this country. exclaimed. Il wish L had been BORN so years g
ad had had hat mans nance AS a GUN fellow" a little later the youth TX
plalned hiss statement hy saying. "Al the big chances are taken nov lie
thought that all tine gold fields ave been discovered. n those chances have
gone that all The railroads have been buhded. an hat chance has one that
all the Goa mines nd iron n steel plants have been developed, therefore
hose chances are gone. 1t is impossible now to start a store because a young
fellow with his little sho car N longer compete will the department stores.
In these days. Il young man. with n capital hasn n chanc Whatever-that vas
the burden of his rebelious complaint against out times country.
Now me OF the group in the statGoomw as the head of M Oft he greatest
textile mills in the world. This rich manufacturer insisted that the chances
were never so nany OF so big. Fifty years. go a poor 10Y of &c. he LETT his
fathers farm n entered his factory as a cotton spinner. He began at the
very bottom All he asked for va an even chance. He had the ability, he
saved he wastes. he drled tn worNmen. he showed ignorant men 10Y to gel
the NOS out of he tools. He rewarded every mar hat couldo nerh him a
new idea. He became upeiintenden ofo on little factory; later manage o a
group, until low III is at the tp of all the works. 70 show what was the out-
put of his factories, he sad that If an automobile left Boston Monday m%hng
and Travelled full speels so IL to preach San Francisco Saturday nigh 800 miles
a day it would equal the 200 miles Of ottong goods woven each week n that
associated .rou of factories.
You ask me what chance L had. 50 years ago? answer that 1 began with
50 or $40 in my pocket To compete with our group Oft actries today. you
would have to star with s9O00OOO OF s1o000OOO. But THAT is not the point
Suppose w pay 6 per cent pom or production. Any day some young mar
hundreds of people. and thus increase Dur output 10 per cent or redeem us u
of some form of waste The more tools you have the larger number of oppor-
tunies" He then said that wher there va me opportunity for advance
mem 80 years sc. there we're literally hundreds nw in his group of factories
ARE so man side interests tina their daily work becomes a mere incident"
He was right Opportunity knocks at the door every morning. III nn
will not give heed. Every widely travelled business man 10Y stat this great
anuactur understood the situation. Constantly death is removing great
leaders Dahl some mar drops out Of the procession, N each year hundreds
M hundreds of positions are left open. ~ the youth ho willis M concen-
the position and carries away the golden sheaves 1t is a lime OF uneaualed
oppOrtunuie for men.