Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1913 — AT THE AGE OF HEAL WORTH [ARTICLE]

AT THE AGE OF HEAL WORTH

Veuth es eighty Years of Ago Hopqa to Demonstrate Hla Value Before the World. ' Here la a young fellow who la the goal thing. Andrew D. White, founder of Cornell university, (Or several years j&pwpreeentatlv# of the nation at St JPetersburg and Berlin, and delegate do the first Hague peace congress, recently reached the age of discretion •ad celebrated hie eightieth birthday.

So now he expects to be able to do some real work. He has taken np the stndy of criminology and hoped, he says, within the next few years to make some contributions worth while on the subject that la the sort of spirit of youth to make a man envious. But why not? At eighty a person Is Just beginning to accumulate a bit of wisdom and to get rid of the half-baked ideaa of hla boyhood. Ha la reaching a point where he sees through the shame of success that really Is failure and failure that

really la success. With such a good foundation to build on, why shouldn’t he start in to do something, of real value? Blessed are the young in heart.— Kansas City Btar. •