South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-07
CRASPNC OPPORTUNITIES.

TIE failure In life arc the men who fan to recog-
nize opportunity when d knocks at the door
The successes are those whose keen eyes grasp
VISION Of the future and who are not chained by
indecision fear and hesitation
How often have YOU heard your grandfather or
your father relate with regret that he was once
offered stock IN the telephone for song one share
OF which would have made him. wealthy?
How often have YOU heard the pioneer relate the
story OF how he turned down purchase OF the site
Of the great Marshall Field store in Chicago when
ne could have Sought it for pittaHce2
How often have you. yourself regretted that YOU
had SO little faith IN the growth of this city that
you neglected 20 purchase that vacant lot on which
today stands magnificent business block and which
tomorrow wiz form the foundation for sky
scraper?
The men who reaped he rewards were OF
fa,th-and Of works for IN the lives Of men the
BibHca, adags that faith thout works IS dead,
strongly in material in spiritual affairs.
TIE men who look back with pride upon their
own achievements were men who could see beyond
the present and who had the courage in their own
good Judgment and ability to believe that their.
dreams Of greatness could come true
That greatest Of all miracles the modern city is
the result OF the vision OF men who have correctly
estimated the opportunities Of the particular spot
IN which they we're located and then grasped the
rewards they felt would to those OF faith,
No city is the result Of accident Behind them
be the firm foundation of a necessity for their
existence added to a public sririt which brooked
no Interference with their development.
The first cities were built along coasts, because
n the early DAYS transportation limited entirely
ships and the trade barter Of the early days
confined TO those simple necessities Of life which
suffieed before the day of invention.
The growing cities of today are those which are
built around industry. which gathers together the
worker to turn raw materials into those finished
articles which are as much a necessity Of modern
life food and clothing to the men and women
OF two centuries ago.
Given group of great industries which to
build, the progressive city grows as large and as
fast the vision Of It's people contemplate the
future; large as its people have faith in its
stability
For there are successes and failures among cities
iust there are failures and successes among men
other cities look back with regret upon the time
that they. wth,a united courage, might have drawn
70 themselves the automobile industry Detroit
reached out and took itself the first great factories
because it marshaHed its resources in order to meet
the demands of these growing factories
Akron drew the rubber business. not because II
better located than other cities but because it's
PEOPLE realized that its chance to grow to offer
conditions under which that industry might expand
the fullest measure.
Now South Bend is to grasp its great opportunity
20 be known one OF the really great Industrial
centers one of the larger cities of the nation II
viii seize the opportunity to emerge from the smaller
into the larger class of municipalities
The city Viii not he listed one of those which
. failed to meet rs opportunities for the men and
women Of this city have shown their faith and
demonsrated that they have the vision. which marks
the difference between success and failure.