Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-04-21 | Page 10 | Young Men's Chances Today

1 Jyoung Young aYoung Mens Men's Chances T Today o ay T TH Tc I c HE H E IS quite an ambitious energetic young I man man but hes he's somewhat discouraged Opportunity he thinks is not now now what it ituS uS used d to be When my my father was a boy lioy he lie says I ayoun a aoun a youn oun oun ll man n had lad all kinds of ch chances Hec He Her c could uld start fart out in iii business for himself Qc Or OrlIe lIe he c could uld get in in with some small organization Hon tion onI help it il grow and become a partner in 7 jt in a few years But now there ther arent aren't any small mail busin businesses And the big ones are so big that you OU could spend your our whole life in one of f em and never be n noticed There is no denvin denying that the small busine busineSs business busi- busi ne neSs s has has- had a rocky time of it lately 1 The he tendency is inescapably toward bigness Mergers and combinations are consolidating the many small firms into a few big ones It looks rooks as as if the heyday of the small-scale small independent business man juan had haa passed Likewise it i is p perfectly true that the big I corporations such as an ambitious young man might want w nt to enter number their by the tile thousand An Au individual it would seem beem could easily become hopelessly sub sub- mer merged ed Y Yet t in spite of these things a young man nian about bout to begin in a business career has more more opportunity for advancement today than thai ever ever eier before CO Consider for example one of the biggest concerns in the country the General Motors corporation It has a great many factories each one almost bre taking breath taking in its size It maint maintains ins salesrooms all over the world It buys pr prodigious quantities of raw materials It h has s innumerable subdivisions Each year it makes more automobiles than there then are are in allf all of f England Now Nov this tremendous organization docs does not run aut It is run by men nen I And ij nd these men were not born into their jobs Th They won them h hr proving that hat they were capable of f filling them A concern the size of General M Motors tors has one outstanding problem problem lem greater t than tVan an any problem of sales prices 1 supply the thc problem of finding men big c C 1 ugh h to fill its gen general r l offices Yh f does that mean mean to a young man Centering en cn eying at t the bottom 14 it means that he will ave every chance in itI the world to ady ad ad- y vance It means that the men above him f. f w ik c n looking for signs of ability It me means means' that there is no limit to the heights t Jo to o which h he le can rise if he has Ims the right stuff v in 10 in hint him A And d what chat is true of General Motors is is' is tr true e r of every every other big business concern Never as was there such a demand for capable m men Never ever did ability bring such a high pJ pike ice ce in m the market r The T le ambitious young m man l of today can canth th his Ills stars he was as born into this era of big business There never wasP was a time when opportunity was so great as it is t today day