The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-07-10
.AEN CHANGE? NO!
Ar. Goshngton Confident They
Preserve Their Ideals.
81 Course. With Advancing Years He
Admits Some Of the Enthusiassns
May Be Lost, but There's
Reason for That.

IAN older friend of mine once said
10 me-" said Mr.. ~Goslington, that
men preserve their ideals until they
are somewhere around fifty, but after
that they look out for themselves.
mot having vet reached that more
Or less mature age myself. / can't say
what / shall be when i get there.
Maybe I shall get hardened, too, and
AXE a like cynical view; but I don't
:hink so now. Anyway, II is my OBJ
servation as far as I've got that most
men are generous in spirit and that
nen carry through life, in the main,
he characteristics with which they
start. The nan endowed with a gen.
,rous heart stays generous to the end
VI his days. We certainly do meet
some hard old men, but / have known
Toung men who were hard and close
listed; and / should rather attribute
be seeming closeness of some men as
hey grow older not to tight-wadness
,ut to the development of a habit OF
discrimination.
"What my friend meant to say to
ne was that while men start in life
With the natural enthssiasms of youth
yhile they then espouse all good
auSes and give generously of their
ime and money, yet as they grow older
hey discover that most of the innu-
nerable enterprises started for the
etterment Of mankind are never car
led to completion, and that there's a
OF of sham in the world and that
eally most people are out for what
hey can make and so as a man grows
,lder, when he comes TO be fifty or
l~ereabouts, he says to himself, What's
he use why should ! waste my time
nd money! And looking at things in
hat light from that on he leaves re-
orm and that sort of thing to the
ounger set, while for himself he looks
ut for No. i.
Now what / find is that as men be-
,ome more experienced in life they do
discover that not all causes are worthy
If support; that some, fine as they
nay seem TO be. are visionary and can
lever come to fruition that some are
hohheCd "actCluity III ~ w hDt dD-
zeal 10 a man who likes to see money
Used to the greatest advantage. And
find that men come to consider more
md more the sponsors of projects put
sorth with an appeal for money; but
men do not lack generosity-far from
t. 1t is true that some men ashley
grow Older do grow harder and look
u for themselves alone; but this il
not true of mankind in general.
Having encountered frauds, and
having met with notoriety seekers who
sought TO promote their own fame
rather than the enterprise In which
they were engaged, whatever measure
of merit that might contain, men do.
as they grow older, grow more canny
but the man with a generous streak
In him in his youth, which the vast
majority of men have, holds ii as long
rs he lives, and it can De reached by
the right appeal.
$50 | don't quite agree with my
older friends views and il makes me
smile to recall that once when | stood
In need Of wise counsel and had called
on him he took time to talk to me
and tell me- what / needed TO know.
and he lent me money besides. He
thought he was q tough, wise old bird
but he didn't know himself as well as
he thought he did. He was born with
a sound heart, and despite the fact
that he was now well past fifty, he
was still running true to form"