The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-01

The recent discussion relating to the
age limit of usefulness Is not without
sort Of grotesque interest IL II Is
true that any class Of employers has
established the regulation that the age
Of 10 years or Whereabouts viii disquai-
ify applicants for employment thelr
absurd rule will deprive them OF tie
very best service which they could OBJ
tain. The majority Of men do not
reach their physical and Intellectual
prime until they are between 40 and
80 years Of age l-preseEved me1
retain their capacity fer me1tsl and
manual labor 10 q much later period Of
their lives. Even in taking up new
employment the maturity Of age and
general experiences Is the best quAlia-
cation for unaecnstomed duties which
a man can possess Some men grow
old faster than others Lond Byron
wrote on his thirty-sixth birthday:
Ny days are in the yellow leaf.
The flowers and fruit Of love are gone
The worm, the eanker and the grief
Are mine alone.
Yet Milton published Paradise
Lost" when he was 80 years old and
Paradise Regained" when be was two
years older. Under preposterous early
statute of New York all judges were
superannuated and retired from service
at the age of 60 years. Under this rule
Chancellor James Kent left the bench
Of that State In 1923. After that time
he wrote his Commentaries on Ameri-
can Law" which stands beside Black
stones Commentaries on English
Law" as one of the leading classics in
the legal literature of the world. Emer-
son said: I'VE do not count mans
years until he has nothing else to
count" This must have been the opin-
ion of the trustees for the S10,OOO,OOO
Carnegie institution at Washington,
who recently selected Daniel Colt Gil
man as its president. He will organize
and place In operation this remarkable
institution of learning, which will take
its place among the greatest colleges of
America or Europe. President Gil
man is II years old. His life has been
one of great mental and physical In
dustry. Yet the wise officers who will
the affairs of Carnegie's mu-
nificent donation did not think that he
was too old to perform the duties which
he will meet. The greatest statesmen
In the world have been those of adj
vanced years. Jefferson, who died at |
he age of SO; Daniel Webster, who died |
1T the age Of 20; Gladstone, who died
1t the age of SO, and Bismarck, who
lied at the age of SO, filed the zenith
Of their respective lives until a few
7ears only before they died. The his
DRY of greatness In all time is that Of
men who had reached the high culmina-
ion of life before their capacity for
lsefulness had begun to decay. The
savage irony Of labor orator at a re-
.ent union meeting all men
,ught to be shot when they reach the
lge of 40 years"-was inspired by
.eport that an age limit had been estab-
ished by some local employers and
hat it was useless for any man over
he limit of age to apply for employ
nent. The arbitrary and fictitious age
limit which is said to have been estab-
lished is ridiculous in view of the fact
that all healthy men grow in knowl-
edge grow in capacity, grow in the ex-
pertness which experience brings I'M
til the very last years Of their active
existence.
Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though In another
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