Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1918 — This the Day of Young Men. [ARTICLE]

This the Day of Young Men.

Tn their enthusiasm, some well stricken in years have been heard to argue that this ought to be called the day of old men. But one would have to be not only old but foolish to attempt to make that out. Youth will still be served. It is really more emphatically than ever before the day of young men. Theirs the main service, theirs the thriU and ecstasy of patriotic devotion. Yet their elders cannot be denied a share in the great making of history which is going on. To be living through it at any age is to stir the pulses and quicken the imagination. It is a time when, with the country making so many calls upon her older sons, they can scarcely be blamed if they adapt for their own use the poet’s saying, and declare that It is a period when it is bliss to be alive and very Heaven to be old. —New York Evening Post.