The Washington times., 1919-05-08

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opportunity? have been working in this place almost
thirteen months and haven't had raise any differ
ent work from what they first gave me to do guess
there isn't much chance for man nowadays.
We leave off the signature of this mistaken young fe
low because do want the firm he works for to know
who he is and hope that after he has read this
editorial he will take different view Of his present and
his future he doesn't he will of course be failure
The young man who thinks that opportunity longer
exists is in sad way.
With the truth all around him he persists In believing
lie.
He is either too lazy to take the chance that lies at his
hand engrossed with fooshness and fvoy to gen
timely as to his future.
Either attitude of mind is fatal to success and guar
antees nothing failure and the discomfort that
panies it.
There great possibilities for genuine
compshment splendid success and worthwhile results as
right
There were never so many roads to wealth, so
many paths to fame many opportunities as IN this
year of 1919.
The war with all its devastation has been creative of
fields of work and hitherto undeveloped channels of
endeavor
The active purposeful earnest young man has a
of opportunities open him today that the boy Of ten
years ago would have sought without finding.
few days ago in New York big brokerage firm
bought a the stock exchange It cost $75,000
It was not bought for member of the firm for the
head clerk any other of the hgherups Of the organza
tion.
It was bought for the telephone boy.
He had done a small job well had so thoroughly
proven his value that the firm willing to give him the
bigger thing do And willing to risk their money his
record.
That boys opportunity did not come last week when
they put him the exchange 1t when they sat him
down at the telephone.
day or two ago the friends of Henry C. LyttOn of
Chicago head of of the biggest clothing stores in the
world, celebrated business anniversary.
Mr. Lytton did not have to tell his friends, because
they knew it. that he started poor boy in New York and
that his first job filing ink wells and doing other work
= a lawyers office at fifty cents a week
What if he had said then, 'This is rotten job and
boss doesn't appreciate get ink all my fingers
ard thanks for doing it, boy has chance any more
Do you think he would have arrived anywhere?
Kr LSton did not recite how he had made his success
but hI did te reporter for the Chicago Herald Examiner
something aut TIE chance boy has now and how that
bov can best t dyantage of it. This is what he said:
There never will be a time when opportunity is
absent to the young who seeks it. Don't forget
that, young fellow
''To seek opportunity, however, means more than
to wish. A young man must practice economy. He
must forget all about the clock If he is not equipped
with college education, he must educate himself
"He must always be polite Cvility is our cheap
est commodity-we should give it away freely. And
lest he become discouraged in his fight for success our
young must remember that only at the bottom Of
the ladder is there crowding and showing
"There Is no congestion at the top, and the farther
he goes the easier the going is
Any young who thinks he has no chance that on
poruny has passed him by should that quotation
from Mr. Lytton and glue the footboard of his bed
1t should be where he will it the first thing in the morn
ing and the last thing night And he ought to read it
often as his mother taught him to say his prayers
This the golden age of opportunity 1t is the easiest
time for success the world ever saw.
Education was never easy to get free of ex
pense The business world never so big nor called
loudly and nsistenty for young brains and amb
ton. The scientific world had so many problems to
solve thousand roads radiate where every young
is standing and every one leads to success
Opportunity has you by the hand ready to pilot you
but she will not pull you will she wait
You can sit comfortably at the crossroads of Success
and watch the crowds go by headed big things but that
will not get you anywhere
The boy who says he has opportunity fooling no
body but himself and long as he believes it he will he