The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-04-24
The Big Chances Not Gone.
BY Newell Dwight Hills.

LIES wisest teachers are work, literature politics. religion conversa-
lion with the people ne meets. Every mn is a n expert o nm n subject
and during his bstm mood, in conyersauo will open his Jewel OK OF memory
and offer you all his treasures Recently fou men were in tn stateroom con-.
Ing from Boston ito New York. The secretary o. one brought In a message AM
during the conversation this young secretary, referring to n of the great hnan-
cal figures OF this country exclaimed IT wish l had been born so years ago
and had had that nan chance n - a young fellow A little later he oWh eX-
planned his statement by saying, "AH tn big chances aet taken now! lie
thought that Ill thu gold feds have been discovered, and those chances haV
gone; that al. the railroads have been bunded, and that chance as gone; that
all the coal mines and iron and steel plants have been developed therefore
those chances are gone. II is impossible now to start a store because a young
fellow with his little shop ar n 70 longer compete with tn department stores
n these days q young man with 10 capital has M chanc whateVer-that" as
thu burden of his rebelious complaints against ut INT IN IN
Now N Of the rou in he sateroom was he head of on of In greatest
textile mills In he wWld. This rich manufacturer insisted that n hances
were never so many Dr. So big Fifty years g a DOR boy Of 20, h lett ms
fathers arm n entered, his faCtorya 3 a cotton spinner. lie bega At the
very bottom. All he asked for IA an eve chance. He hd tn ability 10
saved the wastes he drilled the worknen, he showed ignorant men O 10 get
the most u of the tools He rewarded every man that could offer him a
new idea He became superintendent of N little factory; later, manager Of q
group until o he is at the TOT OF all The works To show wha a the out
pt of his factories he sHd that If an automobile left Boston Monday morning.
ad Travelled hD speed sc a to reach San Francisco Saturday night, 500 miles
a day, IT would equal the 1900 miles of cotton goods woven each week in that
associate group Of factories. ,
You ask m what chance had so years ago? answer that began with
50 or SO in IN pocket. TO compete with u group Of fadries today you
would have Ito start with 5000 600 or $100O00oO. But that is not the point
Suppose re pa 9 per Ger upon III production. Any day son young man
NAV come into the factory with son Little device tina will save the abo OF
hundreds of people and thus increase our output 10 per cent Or redeem US O
of some form of waste. The more tools you haV thu larger number to ppoF-
uniies" lie then said that where there "a n opportunity FOR dVanc
nent 30 years ago. here were literally hundreds now in hi group OF factories
The trouble i" h Q said, young mon 10 not know o 10 WORK uo"E. mere
are so many side interests tina Their daily work becomes a mere incident"
He al right Opportunity knocks at the door every morning, nut men
will not give heed. Every widely travelled business mar knows ht this great
manufacturer understood the situation Constantly death is removing great
and hundreds of positions are LETT OPEN, n the youth h wills n concen-
trates N preserves n realizes Ia genius is 30 Der cent respiration gets
the position and carries away the golden sheaves. 1t is a m of unequaled
opportunities fr men.