The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-06-30
JUSTICE TO Them
MIDDLE.AoED MEN NEED FEAR
NO LONGER FOR THEIR JOBS.
Noted Physician Says Big Business
Has Learned Value Of Mature
Judgment and Plodding Stead
mess In Workers.

american industry can no longer
dispense with the middle.aged work.
ers nor even with those verging on
old age, writes the noted physician,
DR.. l. Madison Taylor. Middle age
and even old age need no longer dread
the junk heap on which big business
previously proposed 10 scrap all but
the most energetic Of the population.
Little more than year has elapsed
since American business parlance be-
gan to forget its phrase, "an old man
of forty" Little more than a year
may elapse before Il shall have adopt
ed the phrase, the young man Of
fifty" Times are changing. and men
with them,
Every indication OF current indus
trial. economic and commercial condi-
tions evidences the imminent neces-
slty on the part Of 100,0000O0 compos-
ing the population Of the continental
United States, OF increasing enormous
ly their productive capacity and, nec-
essarily, their individual efficiency.
The lesson is one that has been IN
culcated IN various forms of admoni-
tion, throughout the past year by stu
dents Of the European war and of the
economic conflict which must follow
It's conclusion.
Little more than ten years have gone
since, throughout the range of big
business" the fiat went forth that this
is the day of the young men. In many
instances employees Of undoubted 10y
atty and complete proficiency were
dismissed or denied advancement sole
ly on the score of an age limit which,
too frequently, was set at a ludicrous-
ly low aDpraisement.
Even 40 years Of live and fruit
ful activity we're supposed TO be sufi-
cient to incapacitate a man for the
initiative demanded by our more
modern" business methods. Grievous
wrong was done large numbers of ma
ture intelligences whose sobriety Of
judgment more than compensated for
the inappreciable abatement of their
dynamic energy.
The present insistent demand for
workers of all classes has, to a note
worthy extent, swept aside the erro-
neous verdict of the big business" of
the past decade. The conditions of the
immediate future make certain the
utilization in some form or other
of all of the mental and physical re-
sources of our people, if their indus
tries are to survive in the approach
ing struggle between European and
American industries.
Yet it remains, in the pitiless light
Of that brief radition-existing long
enough to establish a precedent still
men past the first flush
Of their early vigor to realize the con.
ditions under which, if at all, they are
to come into their own and are to
hold it hencefOrward.
If, in our industries, we are to
meet successfully the bitter competi-
ion impending, not only must our ex- +
scutiVes utilize all the labor energy
md skill at their disposal, but the 7
nen of middle age must do their ut .
most to keep themselves at their best
How shall they do it? AS practical
physician, should advise the average
man, for his first saliva
ion, to resolve not to sQuander effort.
lie must concentrate; he mus+ refrain
rom assuming useless burdens, how.
yer tempting they may be He must
INIT his expenditure of energy to the
york which he has in hand and limit
is appetites to the qualification Of
hose only which shall conserve his
yorking powers.
Middle age, wisely conserved, need
ot dread comparison with youths
trength weakened by youths lavish.
ess.
Go into German workshops-into
ny industrial organization in Ger
lany-and you will have visual dem
nstration of the fact that the men
lost treasured are the men of mid
e age and, frequently, old age These
en usually evidence a plodding stead
less which implies less initiative
ian is to be found in Americans of ,,
)rresponding years. But the lauded
Id envied German efficiency has a,
owed their very steadiness, their in 4.
sfatigableness, their assured expert :
ass to be qualities more than com /.
'nsating for the ginger" of mere =
,uth. :