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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1920, Page 3

A debateable jxunt was raised by ..Mr G. I{. fa'jiics, M.f., in a speech in Masterton oil iSaturduy night, when he assortt-fJ that men wore not capable of doing their best for the world until t':vy hud rent-lied tlio aye of about sixty years. The experience of M. Clement-eau, of,Mr Lloyd George, and of others in the recent war may show tba>t men have not lost their mental and physical vigour at the a«e of sixty of seventy years, llut it can scarcely be argued that a man of sixty is as virile and progressive in his id.eas and as strong 'in liis inventive faculties as ho -was at forty. There are individual cases, snob aa that of the late Count Tolstoi, when the genius is not developed until late in life. In the world experience, however, the man berfcweeir thirty and fifty has shown greater capacity than the mnn at sixty. Fo' this reason, in -Hie United States and other progressive countries, men are -afcuiiily -''scrapped" .it and replaced by -tIKXK pcusesctd the vigour and; ambition of youth.— Age.