The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-02-04
WHAT YOUNG MEN
HAVE TO LOOK TO
The Year 1921, This Year, is One
Full of Opportunities, Say
Leaders

business men and educators. Here
are some of their opinions:
Following is what C. A. Whalen,
chairman of the board, United Cigar
Stores Company of America, has to
say on the subject:
a have never noticed that human
nature is in any material degree
changed by temporary conditions like
those which, for example, are now in
fuencing industrial affairs as a
natural result of adjustments follow
ing the great war.
"Your question, therefore, as to
whether young men of the present
day are manifesting an ambition to
succeed in business equal to the op-
portunities offered implies a change
in human nature which, in my view,
does not exist. The worlds ceaseless
progress, so largely dependent on
young men, is proof to the contrary,
and it seems to me that never in the
history of the world could properly
equipped, aggressive young men go
forth to conquer with better chances
to succeed.
''If the problems of life, social or
economic, have been made more or
less vexatious because the war has
brought into being a passing spirit of
nrest, that fact, too, only broadens
the field in which high ideals and
sturdy effort may prosper the more.
81 look for finer development in
every phase of life in the next decade
than we have ever known before. If
I were twenty-five years younger I
would hail the prospect
L. F. Swift, of Swift & Co., Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, treats the SUBJ
jects in the letter which follows:
Answering the queries contained
in your letter, believe the oppor-
tunities for success today are as great
as they were ten years ago-proba-
bly, demanding a greater native and
trained ability.
81 believe our youth, after period
of hesitation, are taking more inter-
est in education, with considerable
more avidity than during the year af-
ter the armistice. Well paying jobs
are not to be had for the asking at
present, and l believe this is realized
and that educated intelligence is be-
ing recognized as the key to advance
ment.
"Also l think that our young men
a"c finding themselves. The relaxing
after the war spirit which followed
the conflict has gone, or is going, and
such unrest as remains is economic
and social-existing before the war
and intensified by it.
GAS to whether our youth of today
are as ambitious, industrious, aggres-
sive, persevering and adaptable as the
young men of ten years ago; I have
great faith in our young men and
their adaptability to meet new con-
d:tions which are developing to spur
them into ambition and achievement.
81 believe the best specific for
young mans interest is the adoption
by employers of the policy to engage
young men willing to submit them
selves diligently to discipline of
training in office, plant or school. The
State and public should see that the
necessary facilities, both educational
and practical which we now have are
sufficiently maintained"
Charles w. Eliot, president emen-
tus of Harvard University, gives his
views as follows:
81 think the opportunities for sue
cess in life are greater today than
hey ever were before, whether we
look back ten years or a hundred
years or along the centuries before
steam and all the new powers over
nature which chemistry, physics and
biology have developed. The oppor-
tunities are vastly greater; but the
individual needs better gifts and ed
ucation than he ever needed before in
order to make use of his opportuni-
ties. The gifted and well trained
youth will also find in all probability
that the standard of success has ris-