Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — WORTH OF MIDDLE-AGED MEN [ARTICLE]

WORTH OF MIDDLE-AGED MEN

Older Workers, Because of Skill, Steadiness and Reliability, Outclass Younger Fellows. In several Western cities "young-old” men have formed an organization that may become nation-wide in its scope, for the purpose of securing employment lor men who have passed their prime. This is decidedly the day of young men, and the man who has passed middle life without having laid up a competency or mastered some special line of work is at a dreadful disadvantage. rl—r f - j- But It has always been so. And age, now as always, says the Christian Herald, is not so much a matter of years as of declining enthusiasm. We have seen men on whose strong shoulders rests the burden of seven, eight and sometimes nine decades, full of un wasted power of spirit and strength when it comes to freshness and joy in the work done and the vision fulfilled. - The great work of the world Is being done and always has been done by men of middle life and more. Fourfifths of the business failures are made by young men. It is ripened experience and judgment that count in the business world, as in any other. In physical work the older man may be outclassed by the younger one; but in lines of work calling for skill, steadiness and reliability the older man has the advantage. There is something seriously wrong with an economic system that finds a man useless at fifty.