The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-08-01
men CHANGE? NO!
Mr.. GosIington Confident They
Preserve Their Ideals.
OF Course. With Advancing Years Ho
Admits Some Of the Enthusiastic
May Be Lost, but There's
Reason for That

IAN older friend of mine once said
to me- said Mr.. Goslington, THAI
men preserve their ideals until they
are somewhere around fifty, but after
that they look out for themselves.
Not having Yet reached that more
or less mature age myself | can't say
what | shall be when ! get there.
Maybe shall get hardened. too. and
take a like cynical view; but | don's
think so now. Anyway, it is my OBJ
servation as far as I've got that moSs
men are generous in spirit and THAI
men carry through life, in the main.
the characteristics with which they
start. The man endowed With gem
er"uS heart stays generous to the end
of his days. We certainly do NEE.
some hard old men, but have kucwKa
young men who We're hard and cios<e
listed; and l should rather attribute
the seeming closeness of some luen as
they grow older not to tight -wadness,
but to the development of habit Ok
discrimination.
What my friend meant to say tep
me was that while men star, in lifs
with the natural enthuSiaSms Of youth.
While they then espouSe all goot2
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
tetterment of mankind are never car
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 a man grows,
Older, when he comes to be fifty OK
!hereabouts. he says to himself, WHAT'S
the use: why should waste my time
and money" And looking at things liz
that light from that on he leaves re-
form and that sort of thin. 10 the
younger set, while for himself he looks
| out for No. l.
| Now what l find is that IS men he
come more experienced in life they to-
discover that not all causes are wu,1hw
OF support: that some, fine ~ they
may seem to be, are visionary aud cam
never come to fruiton; that some are
| managed waslefully and SO do not at,-
peal 10 Il man who likes to see monev
used to the greatest advantage. Ana
ind that men come to consider more
ana more the sponsors of projects pug
l"r'h with an appeal for money; bus
men do not lack gcneroSity-far from
IT. 1t 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, arts
having met with notorety 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 dc.
as they grow older, grow more canry
! nut the man with a generous streak
IN him in his youth, which the vas-
majority of men have, holds il as lefs.-
as he lives, and it can be reached nv
the right appeal.
$50 l don't quite agree with INV
older friends views; and it makes me-
smile to recall that once when I stot,t:
| in need of wise counsel and had eatiefe
on him he took time to talk 10 ras.
ana tell me what l needed 10 KNOW.
and he lent me money besides. He
thought he was tough, wise old bird.
but he didn't know himself as we'll an:
he thought he did. He was born with
a sound heart. and despite the fac.
that he was now well past fifty, ha
was still running true to form