The Pulaskian., 1919-07-11
MEN CHANCE? N0!
Mir. GosIington Confident rb..
 Preserve Their Ideals.
Of Course, With Advancing Years U Admits Some of the EnthusIssn. May Be Lost, but There's
 Reason for That.

"An older friend of mine once sa.. to me-" said Mir Goslington aths. men preserve their ideals until thas are somewhere around fifty, but aft.s that they look out for themselves
 Not having yet reached that mo,. or less mature age myself, I can,t sas what shall be when get there Maybe I shall get hardened, too and take like cynical view; but don,s think so now. Anyway, it is my oh servation as far as I've got that mos4 men are generous in spirit and tbo. men carry through life, in the fna,n the characteristics with which tbo, start. The man endowed with oen erous heart stays generous to the ena of his days. We certainly do meat some hard old men, but have known young men who were hard and elosa listed; and I should rather attrihnta the seeming closeness of some men as they grow older not to tight-wadnes0 but to the development of a habit of discrimination.
 What my friend meant to say to me was that while men start in lifa with the natural enthusiasms 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 tha betterment of mankind are never ear. ried to completion, and that there's 2 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 or whereabouts. he says to himself, 'Whars the use; why should l waste my time and money? And looking at things in that light from that on he leaves re- form and that sort of thing to the younger set, while for himself he looks out for No. l.
 Now what I find is that as men he come more experienced in life they do discover that not all causes are worthy of support; that some, fine as they may seem to be, are visionary and can never come to fruition; that some are managed wastefully and so do not ap. peal to man who likes to see moneY used to the greatest advantage. And l find that men come to consider more and more the sponsors of projects put forth with an appeal for money; but men do not lack generosity-far from 1t. It is true that some men as they grow older do grow harder and look out for themselves alone but this is 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 generous streak in him in his youth, which the vast majority of men have. holds it as long as he lives, and it can be reached by the right appeal.
 "So l don't quite agree with my older friends views; and it makes me smile to recall that once when I stood in need of wise counsel and had called on him he took time to talk to me and tell me what I needed to know and he lent me money besides. He thought he was a tough, wise old bird, but he didn't know himself as well as he thought he did. He was born with sound heart. and despite the fact that he was now well past fifty, he was still running true to form"