THE AGE LIMIT.
At /the age of sixty a man in .New Zealand, outside the Public Service, is considered at his prime. That is to say, his judgment is matured, and he is a useful citizen. In America, whece they live very fa-st, a man at sixty is consigned to the scrap heap. He is regarded as beyond, the useful stag'e. He is said to be ;too caiitiouv an4;}p6n«eryatiye for;modern- life'';•' he •is ' r tfeyer ■ opw and his..' •influence always is cast for the'per T petuation of the methods'of higlown youth, regardless of whether they be good, bad, or indifferent. The Americans claim that if men'over . sixty years of age are eliminated from the control of a nation, progressive, optimistic youth will .rule, dominated just sufficiently by intellects between 40 and. 60, which, though matured? - are not yet stagnant nor opposed to change. 'We are possibly not quite* aa modern in New Zealand as they are in America. But the average length of life is much big-ger with us-than with the Yanks, so that we are not old when we are sixty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 4
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182THE AGE LIMIT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 4
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