The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-08-22

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than any of these.
1t is the onrush of our business life.
Our economic progress plunges ahead
at rate unheard of in the history OF
the nations of the world and every
industrial and financial leader is daily
brought face to face with new and
perplexing problems requiring the
highest courage and intelligence for
their solution.
Ninety billions a year, they tell us,
this country is now producing in new
wealth. The rate of increase is even
more staggering than the amount. 1t
is difficult to say where it may lead
us in even ten or fifteen years.
We are moving exceptionally fast.
Our economic and industrial structure
is placing before us problems of
greater and greater magnitude. Few
men can see far ahead. Few are in
complete control, for this is chang
ing world, as even the most inexperi-
enced business man will readily tes-
tify. Our methods of adjusting our
selves rapidly to economic changes
and OF cooperating are far from per-
feet.
What an opportunity the leadership
| of five, ten or fifteen years from now
presentsl What an adventure 1t will
be- What responsibilities it will lay
upon the broadcast shoulders that may
| be found This is the challenge to
| leadership as | see it. In the hands OF
| the young men must rest the respon-
sibility for this leadership.
Boys Who Reached Inc Pnnacles
Business is full of the romance of
| Youngsters whose chief characteristic
was working hard and keeping at it.
There was green farmer boy who de-
cided he would rather stand behind
counter than follow plow He
| seemed so obviously lacking in sales
ability that for time no merchant
would hire him. He failed in his first
position, and in his second his salary
was reduced. He even agreed that he
was a mistit-but he stuck. Out of
MS first five stores, | believe, three
failed. But he persisted and worked
! hard. And that boy, Frank W. Wool
worth, became the greatest retail
merchant in the world with store
in every city of eight thousand or more
population in this country.
There was another lad who clerked
in grocery store sixteen hours day
and studied mathematics in his odd
moments. He became interested in
the doings of the steel plant whose EN-
ployees traded at this store. He be
gan to study steel and sought posi-
ton in the plant. He carried a sur
!, yevors chain and drove stakes. A
night he studied mathematics and en-
cheering. He did not despair. HI
could not be diverted He kept the
pressure on for seven years. And thai
: boy. Charles Schwab, mastered thu
iron industry and became one of thG
countrys great Industrial leaders.
There was lad who sold papers OF
+, train. When he grew up, severa
million men and score OF billions o
l. dollars Of capital were given profitabl
employment through his Inventions
: Even in middle life, Thomas Edisol
Y continued to work twenty hours day
J, if necessary to achieve his purpose.
:. Leadership is not play Leadersh
+ offers countless positions of varyin
+ opportunity, OF which the highest pin
Y nacles will mean almost unbearabl
Y responsibility in the new era. Their
:. will be men with the fire and iron t
: qualify even for these places. Sue
men must have had the very fines
preparation and the most gruelin
tests. Their reward will be the affair
= ment of these highest pinnacles G
q achievement, and the rendering of a
. Immeasurable service to their times.
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