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Show AGE LIMITS There is an arbitrariness about age limits which permits plenty of discussion but no argument. The head of the largest lumber company in Canada is ninety-eight, and every day he does a full day's work . superintending the business of his concern. He has no intention either of retiring or dying, though the doctors told him when he was forty that he had but a few, months to live. John R. Booth is an exception to the general rule. Then there is the question of the minimum age at which a citizen may arrogate to himself the rights and privileges! of being an "old man." An interesting recent instance is that of John Philip Sousa, who, at seventy, was asked why he did not take up golf. He replied that he was far too young for golf, and that he would think of the great Caledonian pastime when he became too old to do anything else. An unfair aspersion on golf, of course, but an excellent indication of the bandman's indomitable will. Men of certain phlegmatic temperment may retire at sixty and . greatly enjoy the remaining years of their lives. Others endowed with greater restiveness and nervous energy, would find retirement either fatal or a condition of discomfort and unhappiness. For a man who is blessed with a competency the best rule is to work as long as he finds work enjoyable. And, fortunately, the great majority of Americans fipd work more pleasant t'nan idleness. American Ameri-can life needs the services of veterans; it needs, their counsel and also their active participation in affairs. Clevelan d Plain Dealer. |