Deming graphic., 1920-08-03
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 said
| 20 me-" said Mr. Goslington, "that
men preserve their ideals until they
are somewhere around ffty, 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 l get there.
Maybe / shall get hardened, too, and
take a like cynical view; but ] don't
think so now. Anyway, II is my OBJ
seryation as far as I've got that most
men are generous In spirit and that
men carry through life, In the main.
the characteristics with which they
start. The man endowed with a gem
erous heart stays generous to the end
OF his days. We certainly do meet
some hard old men, but have knowI
young men who we're hard and close
fsted and l should rather attribute
the seeming closeDess 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
betterment OF mankind are never car.
ried to completion, and that there's
lot of sham In the world and that
really most people are out for what
they can make; and so as a man grows
bder, when he comes to be fifty or
hereabouts, he says to himself. What's
the use; why should waste my time
and money! And looking at things In
hat 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 ! 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
managed wastefully and SC DO not ap-
peal TO man who likes to see money
used to the greatest advantage. And
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 generoslty-far from
It, II Is true that some men as they
grow older do grow harder and look
out for themselves alone; but this 10
hot true OF mankind In general.
Having encountered frauds, and
having met with notoriety seekers who
sought 10 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 vas.
majority Of men have. holds II as long
as he lives, and II can be reached by
the right appeal.
$50 ! don't quite agree with my
older friends views; and II 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 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 vas now well past ffty, he
was still running true to form"