Deming graphic., 1919-12-23
MEN CHANCE? NO!
Mr.. GosIington Confident They
Preserve Their Ideals.
OF Course, With Advancing Years He
Admits Some Of the EnthusIasms
May Be Lost, but There's
Reason for That

"An older friend Of mine once saio
TO me-" said Mr.. Goslington. "tnat
men preserve their ideals until they
are somewhere around fifty. but after
that they look out for themselves.
aNot having yet reached that more
or less mature age myself, can't say
what shall be when I get there.
Maybe l shall get hardened. too, ana
take a like cynical view; but / don't
think SO now. Anyway, II Is my op-
seryation as far as I've got that most
men are generous In spirit and that
men carry through life. In the MAN,
the characteristics with which they
start. The man endowed with gen
erous heart stays generous to the END
OF his DAYS. We certainly do meet
some hard old men, but have known
young men who were hard and close
listed; and / should rather attribute
the seeming closeness OF some men as
they grow older not to tight-wadness
but to the development OF habit OF
discrimination.
"what my friend meant to say to
me was that while men start In life
with the natural enthuslasms Of youth !;
while they then espouse all good
causes and give generously OF their
time and money. yet as they grow older
they discover that most Of the innu-
merable enterprises started for the
betterment of mankind are never car
b ried to completion, and that there's a
lot of sham in the world and that
really most people are out for what
, they can make; and so as man grows
; older, when he comes to be fifty OIL
thereabouts, he says to himself. What's
the use why should ! waste my time
and money! And looking at things
;. that light from that on he leaves re
form and that sort OF thing to th'
:, younger set, while for himself he look
% out for No. 1.
ii "Now what find Is that as men be
II come more experienced In life they d
discover that not all causes are worth
Of support; that some, fine as the
may seem to be. are visionary and ca
4 never come to frultlon; that some ar
managed wastefully and SO do not al
peal 10 a man who likes 10 see none
used to the greatest advantage. An
| find that men come to consider moi
and more the sponsors Of projects pt
forth with an appeal for money; b'
men do not lack generoslty-far fro
II. It Is true that some men as the
grow older do grow harder and loc
out for themselves alone; but this
not true Of mankind In general.
Having encountered frauds, Ell
having met with notoriety seekers wi
sought to promote their own fan
rather than the enterprise In whi'
they were engaged. whatever measu
OF merit that might contain, men d
as they grow older. grow more cam
but the man with a generous sire
In him IN his youth, which the va
majority Of men have, holds II as 10
as he lives, and II can be reached
the right appeal.
$50 I don't quite agree with 1
older friends views; and II makes
smile to recall that once when / sto
in need OF wise counsel and had call
on him he took time to talk to
and tell me what I needed to knc
and he lent me money besides.
thought he was a tough. wise old bl
but he didn't know himself as well
he thought he did. He was born W
a sound heart. and despite the 4
that he was now well past fifty,
was still running true to form"