Los Angeles Herald, December 08, 1907

It is a common complaint of the idle, the incompetent, and the unsuccessful that there are no such opportunities nowadays as were enjoyed by the successful men who got their start forty, thirty, or twenty years ago. “I never had an opportunity; I haven’t had half a chance,” is the chorus of the disappointed and the disgruntled, as they condole with one another over the decadence of the present day and seek a reason for their failure.