The Washington times., 1923-11-08
What IS an Opportunity for
the Young Man?
There Are More Real Opportunities Today Than Ever

complaining Of lack of opportunities particular asked
this question:
Are the opportunities for young in the present
day and generation equal to what they were twenty-five OF
fifty years agothe days Of father and grandfather?
It question probably asked in this country thou
sands Of times every day It is an important question 70 the
individual It is especially important to the nation For the
nation declines which opportunities 1or the young onn
that we conscenousy and positively say that
REAL opportunities better today both for young men and
young women than they ever have been
Opportunities are greater BECAUSE POSSIBILITIES ARE
GREATER.
Science machinery organization Of all kinds especially
widespread publicity put into mems hands in less than
fifty years power undreamed Of in the boyhood Of
grandfathers.
Humanity and the individual powerful and their OppOr-
tunies are great proportion to the machinery at their
command.
Our opportunities great now but this
made assuming that correspondent real
and worthy opportunities
Unfortunately in this country sudden prosperity
great exavagance and uneasnes to the future make
money aimportant the word Opportunity is apt be
synonym for money Money and opportunity taken
mean the thing.
But purpose to this question quite apart from
money
Undoubtedly the very able getter no matter how
humble his start build up today such fortune
unknown fifty years ago-or twenty five years ago. There
young without penny that viii Cor, rather
less honestly ACCUMULATE) their hundreds Of
millions in the few years. before the
country shall have realized Importance Of regulating
accumulation through increased distribution.
There win be- perhaps fewer small mddleclass fortunes
piled up for there will be many fewer in business
their account thanks to the trusts.
Many viii very large salaries, ranging from
S1500Oo year downward and will probably be very
many large INCOMES in the land within the
tve years than there in the last twenty-five years
But when SALARIES, they do not keep thei
money and Of the middclass fortunes such used to
build the fine houses and erect the Euclid and
Prairie and Mob Hills and other millionaire rows
Of our big Streets we shall have fewer
But trust that correspondent viii agree with
that money is pretty measurement for opportunity
What do the merely rich really amount to? When they
have been dead three years they unknown and for
gotten the pigs and chickens that they ate the horses that
they drove the flunkies whose time they wasted.
Opportunity means CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING
WORTH WHILE
And correspondent that the young Of TO-
day has greater do something while
young has had in the history of this country
Our form Of government changing the power has prac
cy passed from the hands Of the majority Of the people
the hands Of majority Of trust stockholders.
The young who has genius and force the ability to
great opportunity today It is the opportunity to return the
government the hands of those who are governed.
great departments human thought Every one Of these new
fields Of intellectual activity research and discovery offers
The newspapers by millions Of human beings every
day, enable the who think integentl
will be sincere and interesting the time
(and he able, to convnce million two millions of
his fellowctizens every day in the year. Was
greater opportunity than this for influencing the thoughts
Of other men?
Every page of scientific newspaper will show to the
young glorious opportunity
Every phase of great industrial organization every
development in the struggle of manhood against money
to the young great opportunity for public
The horrible poverty and wretchednes great
contrasting with ignorant and ostenatious wealth. op
porunies unlimited to him who would help the poor help
themselves to him able to cajoe fghten the into
doing their duty
This is the age of opportunity but the young man must
think for himself strike his line,
what to do, and stick at it, INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING
ALONG THE USUAL LINES OF LEAST RESISTANCE.
doing the everybody else does keeping nothing
particular and then wondering what has become Of
worlds opportunities.