Gilpin observer., 1919-10-09
MEN CHANGE? NO!
Mr.. GosIington Confident They
Preserve Their Ideals.
OF Course, With Advancing Years He
/ Admits Some Of the Enthuslasms
May Be lost, but There's
Reason for That.

"An older friend of mine once sa d
to me-" said Mr.. Goslington, that
men preserve their ideals until they
are some here around fifty, but after
that they look out for themselves.
mo, having yet reached that more
Tor less mature age myself, l can't say
what shall be when l get there.
Maybe shall get hardened, too, and
take like cynical view; but l don't
think so now. Anyway, 1t is my OBJ
,servation as far as I've got that most
men are generous in spirit and that
,men carry through life, in the main,
tlie characteristics with which they
start. The man endowed with a gen.
ierous heart stays generous to the end
,of his days. We certainly do meet
some hard old men, but have known
young men who we're hard and close
listed and l 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 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 the
bette-'ment of mankind are never car
lried TO completion, and that there's a
lot of sham In the world and that
lreally most people are out for what
they can make and so as a man grows
older, when he comes to be fifty or
whereabouts, he says to himself, What's
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. /.
Now what l find is that as men be
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
mana ged wastef6lly and SO do not APP
peal o "A man who likes to see money
used to the greatest advantage. And
j find that men come to consider more
and more the sponsors of projects put
North with an appeal for money; but
men do not lack gcnerosity-far from
II. 1t Is true that some men as they
grow Older do grow harder and look
ont 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
fOf merit that might contain, men do.
a. they grow older, grow more canny !;
fu the man with "A generous streak
IN him in his youth, which the vast
majority of men have. holds Ii as long
rs hc lives. and 1t can be reached by
the right appeal.
SO / don't quite agree with my
older friends views; and II makes me
smile TO recall that once when stood
~ need of wise counsel and had called
on him he took time to talk to me
and tell me what l needed TO know.
and he lent me money besides. He
thought he was a tough, wise old bird.
but lie 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"