Deming graphic., 1920-08-24
;;ell that second-hnnd furniture
through a Graphic want ad.
OF Course, VIII Advancing Years he
Admits Some OF the En.husiaan's
May Be Lost, but There's
Reason for That.


"An older friend Of mine once safe
10 me" said Mr. Gosllngton, "tha'
men preserve ,helr ideals until the!
are somewhere around ffty, but afiei.
that they look out for themselves.
mot having yet reached that mort
or less mature age myself can't 81!
what shall be when get there
Maybe shall get hardened, too. ano
take like cynical view; but ! donl
think so now. Anyway, II Is my oh
servation as far as I've got that most
men are generous In sfNrit and thai
men carry through life. In the main,
the characteristics with which they
start. The man endowed with n gen
erous heart stays generous to the enc
OF his days. We certainly do meei
some hard old men, but have knowI
young men who were hard and close
fisted; and | should rather attribute
the seeming closeness of some men as
they grow older not to tieht-wadness
but to the development of habit OF
discrimination.
"What my friend meant TO say TO
me was that while men start An 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
ried TO completion, and that there's
lot OF sham In the world and that
really most people are out for what
tley can make; and so as man grows
b Ter. 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. l.
"Now what / find is that as men be
come more experienced In life they do
discover that not all causes are worthy
CT support; that some, fine as they
may seem to be, are visionary and can
never come to frultion; that some are
managed wastefuliy and SC DO not ap-
peal TO q man who likes to see money
used to the greatest advantage. And
! find that men cCme to consider more
and more the sponsors Of projects put
forth with an appeal for money; but
men do not lack generoslty-far from
II. II Is true that some men as they
grow older do grow harder and look
out for themselves alone; but this is
hot true Of mankind In general.
Having encountered frauds, and
having met with notorlety 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 streal
In him In his youth, which the vas
majority Of men have, holds II as lonl
as he lives, and 1t can be reached b!
the right appeal.
80 l don't quite agree with IN!
older friends Views; and II makes m,
smile to recnll that once when | stooS
In need Of wise counsel and had calle,
on him he took time to talk to m,
and tell me what needed to know
and he lent me money besides. III
thought he was a tough, wise old bird
: but he didn't know himself as well a
he thought he did. lie was born witt
sound heaTt, and despite the fac
that he was now well past fifty. b
was still running true to form"