Show f GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT CONNECTICUT TO ENTER I COLLEGE NEXT AUTUMN AT AGE OF 53 I J I 1 4 4 44 4 Dr 44 4 t d 4 I Et i y I GOV TEMPLETON OF CONNECTICUT HI WIFE CENTER AND THEIR THREE DAUGHTERS By HAROLD MATSON NEA NA Writer HARTFORD Conn July 26 28 26 When he wa was a young man nian in n he h wanted to go co to college coll t but sue suc- success cess cese Itself thwarted him FIrst h he w was s too poor Then he was too rich That Is li when whon he was poor h he worked days and studied nights that h he might prepare himself men mentally tally and financially for or college 1110 Then the work he h found to earn him cOllege collect money developed Into too good a thing thine to abandon Para Pam he h couldn't afford atford to go goto goto to college because he be as making too much money But Dut now at the age ae of ot 63 53 Charles Cb rl s A Templeton of at Connecticut has hai finally cut him sell him sell loose from the tb complications of at prosperity H I-fe I Is one once again cramming for tor college entrance ex So It Is that Yale Yae university 11 have a freshman student in 1925 63 3 the ex e governor of a state The story tory of Governor Templeton Is i not cot unusual until it reaches col college college colleg lege It Is a story after alter the th ac accepted pattern ot of strong tron American success Struggling youth Ambition Studies Jobs Job Promotions Say Sav SavIngs Savins logs Ings Marriage Children Pros parity Fame Then should come corn retirement retirement- No Most men retire at an age when they ar are best equipped to understand life and to be of at the greatest t u use to tho T arid orld declares Templeton If It I were to retire now I would be grossly crossly wasting years of at expert once ence I feel that I am just on the of a deeper life lite of at great creat- greater er r capabilities No doubt I will not be b as a conspicuous sIth Ith whatever what ever ver I do as I have hav been as a bus busl ness man and politician But Dut I never sought popular prominence I sought loucht learning and now I shall get t it In big ble pieces piece Templeton agrees with George Dernard Shaw that the tha th average life Is i too short abort and that mati mai usually from activity just when whon he Is becoming matured But flut that 1 Is not th the Important Idea behind Templeton's unique plans plana When I was a k kid I promised myself I would go CO to college Each time I was ready to enter some some- something thine thing would come up and I explained explained explain ed d to myself that this delay auld bo be merely inertly temporary And now it itIs itis Itla Is 33 years that I have been To- To r rn n myself this promise Templeton's Templeton story tory breaks break from the regular pattern Here is a man who has lived a conventionally full He H has sll he tie ha h tasted success he lie has IMS raised railed a healthy family and he has become the leader of men In his state Retire No Templeton means to keep his promise Like most any of Horatio Algers Alger's heroes Templeton started to toI v I work ark at T 7 to help pay bills at home Quite by chance hl his hie work was In a hardware store From rom errand boto boy boyto boyto to clerk from clerk to manager manager- now Templeton Is li the tir head hend of one on of the tho largest hard hardware are firma firm And Anc he h did his hi nork sok ork so 80 o well be bo raised his family faintly so well be lr stood Hood out 11 among men and they selected hIm to be b their loader from loader from count commissioner up to governor And now I 1 gO 20 to college to study history and PS S the tb governor says It seems oems a long longI longreach longreach reach from Crom hardware hard hard are aro but the tho reach I Is not now r now lt came the other wa was from history and psychology to hardware Has lla Governor Templeton any rules for tor or life Just Ju t one ana Want a thing thine and keep after It It he h tells iou au |