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Show The U. S. population has increased increas-ed roughly six-fold in one century. to allow yourself some of the re- finements of culture. In middle life you have achieved a sane perspective. The wild radicalism rad-icalism of youth is behind you and there is no danger that you will ever be engulfed by stodgy conservatism. You have learned tolerance, indulgence, moderation. Maybe you have even learned to keep your big fat mouth shut. What would you give to unsay some of the intemperate words that bubbled from your lips to undo some of the crack-brained things you did when you were young ? Middle age is not at all a bad age. So quit griping and enjoy yourself. Detex Tick Tocks On Middle Age... Quit griping about getting old. Tell the truth you don't reallv mourn the passing of youth, do you ? Like an old soldier lying about his exploits on the field of battle, you pretend to look back on youth as a time of great happiness, with your physical vitality in full bloom. A time of joy and action and the harmonious operation of nerves, muscles and sense organs. A time of romantic adventures and freedom from care and responsibility. responsi-bility. Is that so? Isn't it a fact that youth was not such a happy time? Was it not a time of worry, of nerve-racking effort when ambition ambi-tion outran opportunity a time when you broke your back to make yourself economically solvent ? Arrived at middle life, you allow al-low yourself a spurious sigh for youth only because you know 1 you are not going to have to live it over again. Take inventory, man. ; You have come into a golden age. I In some degree you enjoy accom- plishment. Your mind is at full i vigor. Maybe you're not rich - but who is today? Nevertheless - you possess enough worldly goods |