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OLD AGE TRIUMPHANT.
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The older generation is knocking at the door. It is knocking with a 'per sistenco which must perplex Manchester dramatists and make çur latest autobio graphers_wonder whether they have not been precipitate, write Philip Page.
Old nge is abor reactions and ephemeral grazes; it does not discover new fashions, and is not obsessed with ita years as is youth with its lack of them. There is no self-consciousness in Buch matters, nor dous seventy tend to pose as fifty so. frequently or with such irritation as thirty poses as twenty-one.
ANTHEM TOR OLD AGE. The persistance with which a maturing woman remains at nine-and-twenty is nothing to the anxidy many a male twenty-seven displays in order to be mistaken for nineteen.
"Rosewhite youth," sung in the for- gotten satire of the 'nineties to the lune of "Three Blind Mice," has still much to answer for. Old aga never, so far as I am aware, had its anthem, though Cicero in "De Senectute" gave it a panegyric. But Cicero wrote in praise of old ago as a state, not in praise of
old men.
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COMPLETE. FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEM.
From an American contemporary wo learn a few more facts relative to the wonders of the great Ford organisation. "Fighting Area is one thing, but when there aren't any fires to fight, why-the firemen haven't anything to do—that is, most of them," we are informed.
Just about everyone knows how heavy time hangs on the hands of the “boys' around the average city fire engine station between alarms, but anyone in- terested in seeing something different can find it at the central fire station in the Highland Park Plant of the Ford Motor Company.
Here the picture is entirely different. Just back of where the fire trucks stands there is a row of drill presses and be. tween alarms the firemen keep busy operating the presses in the manufacture of parts for Ford ears.
Besides, the men work in eight-four shifts of twenty-four hours a day. There are no sleeping quarters and the men are wide awake and on the job all the time.
It is less than twenty feet from the presses to the fire truck so when an alarm comes in it is only a matter for each man to make a quick turn around and climb on the truck to transform him- self from a machine operator into a fire-
men,
Ha dwelt on the joys of realising that the turmoil of life is over, on serene happiness, the accumulation of wisdom, tranquility, and philosophic calm boru. of experience, all of which may be
Ninety man regularly employed in the roughly summed up in the foofing, aptly Highland Park plant are the fire expressed 2,000 years later by a strictly department roll and this force is non-Ciceronian writer, that "somebody | augmented by 200 specially trained men elss is well in the soup. But the world who may be called out at a moment's will still go on."
notice in case of emergency.
Old age on its pedestal can be priggish and platitudinous. But old age can get off its pedestal, and does so with increas ing frequency and vigour, It then ecases, beyond a little pardonable vanity, to atter platitudes, and it does things instead.
Lord Dunedin, himself an old man, who still sits regularly as a Lord of Appeal, declared recently that if a man has had sufficient physical vitality to live up to and even over the allotted apan, the chances are that his brain is in a sound condition.
Longevity generally meane vitality and good health, and these are the very things that keep up a man's mental activity as well as his body.
Lord Dunedin does not speak without authority, since he was married at seventy-three, and in the following year was flued for driving a motor-car over the speed limit.
Isolated instances of vigorous old age, though many can be given, do nct, of courte, prove that old age is essentially a vigorous, state, any more than the fact that that veteran Grenadier, General Bir George Higginson, who continues to make public appearances in his hun- dredth year, proves that every officer of the Brigade of Guards, which he joined in 1945, will live as long, provided he does not become a war casualty.
"OLD PARR.”
The case of Old Parr proved still legs. But it is so frequently hinted by youth, huld sometimes by middle-age, too, that to be a septuagenarian is a sin that the efficiency of age is often underrated, and the achievements of the old in other countries and centuries as well as in our DW are most undeservedly ignored.
More, that tiresome thing, the ar rogance of youth, is hold up as something peculiarly · ndmirablo, To say "youth will be served" i just about as illuminating na to my "boys will be boys," and as original. There is no more virtus in being young than there is in being poor.
The "too old at forty" nonsense was thrown overboard long ago. There re mains, however, charge which, if less awesping and more polite, is just as baseless. It is often said that although the old and even the extremely old. pruerve their intelligence and nourish an ever-ripening judgment, they are no longer mentally creative.
That is to say, old man can fill routing and administrative posts, and can sit on the judicial bench with success (thera in certainly something in the atmosphere of the law that makes for longevity), but they cannot build up anything, can rinke no gift to humanity beyond serv- ing it and directing it with tact and ellcioney This is untrue, and in the world of art, literature, and scionco particularly so.
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The regular firemen work in three divisions, thirty on each eight-hour shift. Of those in each shift ton are on duty all the time in the central fro station. As soon as the first squad leaves in response to an alarm, the second squad moves in and if it is called out bofore the first returns there still in the third left to come into headquarters.
To provide and maintain adequate fire protection for the plant is. in itself a hig job. It must be remembered that more than 50,000 men are employed at Highland Park and that the plant area covers 279 acres of which 105 are under roof. There is a complete fire alarm system, with boxes located at convenient places throughout the buildings and yards and in addition to the fire trucki the fire fighting equipment in the plant includes 100 forty-gallon chemical tanka mounted on wheels, 2,000 three-gallon hand extinguishers and 8 miles of hose on racks in various parts of the plant close to fire hydrants.
the Royal Academy, is seventy-two, is still painting, and is especially vigorous in denouncing certain schools of arústic thought with which he does not agree. They are equally vigorous in denouncing him, but cortainly do not excel him in virility.
Sir David Murray, another veteran R.A., is seventy-seven, and regularly turns out charming landscapes. Sir Luke Fildes is eighty-three. The famous
Punch" cartoonist, Sir John Tenniel, the pictorial creator of "Alice in Won- derland," died at great age, working almost to the end.
It is difficult to realise that Bernard Shaw will be seventy in July. In his preface to "Back to Methuselah," he hinted that the lamp was burning low, but it is impossible to read into this (even if that was his intention) any sug- gestion that that fine brain is less fortile now that the red beard is white.
Can any one possibly assert that Shaw' is not writing infinitely stronger, more penetrating, more deeply intellectual plays to-day than he was writing thirty years ago!
If "Back to Methuselah" is his "Baint Joan ” ́is his masterpiece, and both are the work of magnum opus,
an old man."
HANDY AT EIGHTY-FIVE. Literature has, too, a remarkable figure in the late William de Morgan, who did not begin to write novels at all until poat middle-age. Thomas Hardy is not too aid at eighty-Eve to take an active in- forest in the theatrical production of
Tess.
The stage has a splendid veteran in Lennardo da Vinci was close on seventy Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson who is far when painted the Bt. John the Baptist from decrepitude, at soventy-two. which is in the Lourre; in the last few In the domain of commerce a remark- months of his long life he designed able career has been that of Lord Vestby, new palace at Amboise, and drop up who was a comparatively poor már éntil detailed projects of a vast canal to con- past hity, never having more than 2000 nect the Loire and the Saone.
a millionaire. -' year Now be Milton wrote "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes" when he was Old Man of politics, Georges Clemen- Gladstone was not the only "Grand over nixty.
cosu, after a long and stormy public life, is now, over eighty-four, busy writing plays.
ACTIVE VETERANS. Music shows perhaps the most striking instance of all in Verdi, who, when long
Lord Balfour does not allow his psit sighty, changed his musical style seventy-seven years to interfere with completely, and made his last opera, either his official duties or his lawn "Falstaff, incomparably his best. Only toonis, Lord Coventry is the G.O.M. of the hypercritical find signs of failing the racing world and has been Lord powers in the opon. of Wagner's old Coventry since 1843. age Parsifal."
"Was "Let us now praise famous men Kelvin and Huxley were active veteran oxhortation of Biblical times. Let a Sir Frank Dicksos, president of us now praise old men "would be, a
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