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Show IS THIS "YOUNG MAM'S AGE?" Golden Period of Achievement Cornea When. Man Is Well Past Forty Years of Age, It Is Claimed. "Onr times are frequently called the nge of the young men. But when one looks back to the revolutionary era of our country, from 1775 to 1S25, and considers the striking youthfulness of the leaders pf America the appellation does not appear exactly to fit," said a New York man in a recent Interview. "Nor do the men now in their twenties twen-ties and thirties push the men of the forties and fifties hard enotnjh to prove that this is pre-emiueutl the young man's age. Unless men of forty are considered young, this scarcely is a young man's age. "The youngsters under thirty receive an undue degree of attention from the professions and business. A notion prevails that the latest graduate from college, technical school or university j is more desirable than the man who has had post-graduate courses in life's college of experience. Best sellers, movies and magazine articles about business foster the notion. Consequently, Conse-quently, a distressingly' large number of men trora twenty-five to thirty ex- y pect to b the bosses of big businesses or corresponding professions or technical tech-nical vocations by the time they are thirty-five. "Many will, if they work hard and prove to possess capacity, occupy positions posi-tions of responsibility. But scarcely at thirty-five. The golden age of achievement really comes In most cases 15 years later. In fact, the present pres-ent age Is the age of the mature man. In literature the success today is not, the man of thirty. Irvln Cobb would almost universally be considered a luccess in literature, but Cobb Is forty-one forty-one and has not reached the fullness, Df his power. George Ade Is flfty-one,; Tarkington forty-eight, Frank Oobb, a chief writer of editorial, forty-eight. The success achieved through development develop-ment of talent, hard, work and sacrifice sacri-fice Is reserved for the mature." |
