Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-10-26 | Page 9 | Maturity or Youth for World's Work

Maturity or Youth For Worlds World's W i rh 1 By WINIFRED BLACK Can a middle aged middie-aged aged man do more work and bett better r work than a young man Mr Ickes secretary of the interior says ays he can What do you think about it Well now Ill I'll tell you whit I 1 think If I 1 had a piece of brilliant dangerous dangerous dan dw dashing bit of work to be bedone bedone bedone done Id I'd give it to a young young oung man mm If I had a piece of work that t required required required re- re a long pull and a strong pull patience endurance and wise vise balance of f judgment Id I'd pick out a man o ot of middle age to do it Youth is is too busy having hilving a good time ime falling in m love and out again sIzing izing himself up against other men of his years dreaming hoping planning planning plan plan- ning to do tremendously efficIent work Hes He's like a young colt just out o othe of 01 the pasture high spirited full of oC life crazy to go but go-but but you OU cant can't count count- counton on him lim He changes his mind too often The middle aged man has forgotten a good deal about the green I postures and the gay joy joyous us gallops around the field hes he's he's hes settled into harness He knows how to accommodate his hL strength and hI his endurance and his patience to the job To be plain about it hes he's broken Into nto the harness and it doesn't scare him half to death to know that a stranger Is b going to ride him into I new fields Of course when you come right down to it though its it's aU all a matter of personality Too Busy Living Some people hate work and they'll n neVor vcr do it well because they're always always al al- al ways watching the clock and wondering won won- dering what she will say when she sees him in his brand brana new outfit this thi evening Hes He's too busy living to take much time working workIng workIng-if if he can help It Many a young man who is a bit o oa of ofa a failure at 30 turns turns' into s something a good deal like success when hes he's 40 years rears old Hes He's steadied into his pace he knows what he can do and what he cant can't do and he has made up hL his mind to make the best of things and not to expect miraculous and be delight every time he tackles a new job If two men applied to me for work one of f them 40 and the other 25 I thInk hink Id I'd be inclined to take the mid mid- die-aged die man mm and give him the job if f he knew his work and knew that tha he be ic knew it That is 15 if I didn't want to look too far ahead In the long run of course a oung young man is the best bet hell he'll be middle aged when the middle-aged middle man is is elderly and that means something Here In America we dont don't loo took look very far tar ahead ahead we we dont don't have to do that theres there's always some new gency to meet and its it's time enough to o meet it when it arrives Can a middle-aged middle man do better work than a young man Well maybe he cant can't but somehow somehow somehow some some- how he lie usually does dont does don't dont you think Copyright 1934 K F. F S S. Inc