Show young men with ambition were aided by depression youth maintains take it from C CHICAGO an expert th the e high school or college graduate is all wrong if he claims theres no opportunity for young men in the business and professional w world orld to the contrary the depression has really produced new opportunities port unities for youngsters with ideas this is the decision of felix B a young man who is making young men his lifes work studied this phenomenon as editor of a magazine spec specializing aall zing in young men and hes conc concluded 1 eded that the depression merely wiped out a lot of old impractical ideas it left a clear field ahead for new and youthful thinkers now N 0 w has assembled his opinions in a new book called young men published by reilly and lee of chicago it lists the accomplishments of several score american youngsters most of 0 whom were up against the wall 10 years ago and all of whom are sue suc today its horatio alger brought up to date broadways sign king douglas leigh Is one of most unusual young men at 30 leigh is the sign king of broadway he owns more of broadways biggest and most striking electric signs than all the others combined yet only seven years ago he arrived in new york from birmingham with 8 in his pocket and no prospect of a job leigh figured the signs he saw 7 ORSON WELLES VELLES at 24 he has behind him already a long record of achievement as actor and producer along broadway were bright and clever enough but they impress him with the cigarettes automobiles coffee or whatever they were supposed to be selling so on march 4 1933 the day of the bank holiday he went into business by applying individuality and novel treatment nt to this unique business hes made more than a million dollars A young man who sees leighs signs every day is willi william m mcchesney a martin who at 31 is a president of 0 the new york stock exchange ile he assumed this highly responsible financial post in the summer of 1938 as a result of reorganization designed to bring wall streets operations out from behind a cloud of ill repute though he was born of a well to do st louis family and although his father Is president of the st louis federal reserve bank it takes more than family connections to go uphill the way bill martin did it recalls colonial spirit in young men Str eyck mans points out that the pioneering spirit of today is reminiscent ol of that which featured early america the young man of today he says being a pioneer in the ruins ol of the last few decades Is first cousin to the pioneer of colonial days the outstanding men then were young an and d the outstanding young men whose hose w careers I 1 have studied are closer to them in spirit than they are to their own fathers or their fathers fathers thomas wingate of amarillo texas a is a splendid example of this ap spirit frit seven years ago when tom was as 17 his father died and left him FN L HAROLD STASSEN one of americas Americ ds most outstanding political leaders he became governor of minnesota in 1938 at the age of 31 ten years earlier he had worked liis his way through college a soft drink works the cites oldsters shook their heads and they had every reason to imagine trying to sell soft drinks in a drouth stricken area just when prohibition hibi tion was being repealed repeal edl I 1 but tom realizing he use conventional methods won his employees plo good will by raising their salaries and promising christmas bonuses they went to work with a will and the wingate bottling works got back on its feet last summer tom refused an offer of more than a million dollars cash for his business hows that for a 24 year old young poultry king theres a somewhat similar case near houston texas the hero of this story is 22 year old dewey stringer blond and slightly built I 1 I 1 I 1 r ay I 1 I 1 e Z A WILLIAM M MARTIN only 31 he is the highly successful president of the new york stock exchange 21 tit it IN THEOS BERNARD 30 year old american who was the first white man ever to become a buddhist monk ile spent several years in tibet visiting and photographing places no white man had ever seen who inherited a large poultry farm when his father died tour four years ago in that period hes become such an authority and so successful that the home economics bureau of the united states department ot of agriculture cites him as one of americas outstanding poultry raisers he produces a half million of the count rys best eggs every month actually the most successful youngster listed in young men is 22 year old william brannan who graduated from beloit college in wisconsin last year in college he was a varsity wrestler a me member aber of the debate team and glee club an accordionist and an excellent student last summer after he fin finished dished college he began selling insurance with six s IX months to go it now se seems e ms c certain eti r an that he will ivill t top 0 p the 0 00 mark in his first year unusual perhaps not except that bill brannan is blind newsmen who were successful young men lists quite a few writers two of them are robert kintner and joseph alsop jr 30 and 31 respectively whose capital parade column from washington is a highly successful syndicated feature both started on the new york herald tribune made a success of their column by working hard gathering unusual information and presenting it from a mature and well reasoned viewpoint bill rogers the 27 year old son of will rogers the late movie comedian bought the beverly hills citizen when he was 23 years old in the past five years hes become one of the most influential journalists in the west not because he is ib will rogers son but because hes become a highly successful publisher both financially and editorially there are many other young men in the editorial field paul smith 30 is managing editor of the san francisco chronicle hes served on the farm security board and the farm tenancy commission and is credited with settling a hopelessly hopelessly deadlocked san francisco ware hou semens strike insists that his young men have become successful largely because they know ow the balmy days of 1920 30 and therefore had nothing to lament lamen newspaper released by western newspaper union |