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j Hack In our university da8, there
; was one professor, then In the prime
of life, who was continually inferring
to books that he had purchased, but
I hadn't read. He had the usual pro
fessional desire to accumulate a
library of pood books,' but his time
was so occupied with classes and lec
tures and other regular dutlos that It
required nearly all his reading hours
to read the new books in his line.
Every time a new book was recom
mended to him, however, he trotted
down to the book shop and purchas
ed It.
The prof, used to explain to us
that he was buying all these books
against the time when he should be
too old to teach. He was storing up
pleasures for his old age, he said,
and when he got to the point where
a crowd of students annoyed him be
yond endurance, he would sever his
connection with the faculty and re
tire to his library and his fireside
and read good books until the time
o draw the curtains.
Edward Bok, In the September At
lantic Monthly, presents his ideas of
the way to spend an old age. Mr.
Dok surprised his friends and his
publishers some months ago by re-I
tiring. His acquaintances believed j
that he was ill, and sent him polite i
notes hoping that he "would soon i
ci t well." And now he tells them
inai ue uiis reureu, ana pians 10 en
Joy the results of a lifetime of work
while the capacity Is still there with
which to enjoy them. The Europe
an, with an older civilization and a
larger experience behind him, has
learned this," says Mr. Dok; "the
Englishman has felt It; but the
American has still to learn that the
great adventure of life is something
more than work and money.
"One of the most pathetic sights
In our American business life is the
inability of men to let go, not only
for their own good, but to give the
younger men behind them a chance.
They hang on beyond their years of
greatest usefulness and efficiency:
convince themselves that they are in
fiispt usable to their business, while,
in scores of Vases, the truth Is ex
actly the opposite: the business
would be distinctly benefited by their
retirement and the resultant coming
to the front of the younger blood in
affairs. A great ninny men in pivotal
positions apparently do not see that
they often have it within their power
to advance the fortunes of a number
of younecr men bv stepping put
when they have served their time;
while by refusing to let go they often
work dire injustice and even disaster
to their younger associates.
"The real trouble with the Amer
ican business man is that in many In
stances he Is actually afraid to let
co because, out of business, he would
not know what to do. For years he
has so immersed himself In business
to the exclusion of all other inter
ests, that at fifty or sixty he finds
himself a slave to his business, with
positively no inner resource. Retire
ment from the one thing that he does
know would naturally leave such a
man useless to himself, his family,
and his community: worse than use
less, as a matter of fact, for he
would become a burden to himself
and a nuisance to his family. You
rarely ever find a European or Eng
lish business man reaching a mature
age devoid of outside interests: he
always lets the breezes of other
worlds blow over his mentality when
he is in affairs, with the result that,
when he is ready to retire from bus
iness, he lias other interests to fal
btfck upon. This is rarely the case
with the American- business man. It
is becoming more frequent that wt
see American men retiring from bus
iness and devoting themselves to
other interests, and their number
will undoubtedly increase as tl.:n
goes on and we learn the lessons of
life with a richer, background. But
one cannot help feeling regretful
that the number is not growing larg
er more rapidly.
"A man must unquestionably pre
pare years ahead for his retirement.
I do , not mean alone financially,
which naturally is paramount, but
mentally as well. I have been in
terested to note that. In nearly every
rrp where a business man hss told
; me thnt I have made a mistake In
, my retirement, and that the proper
life for a man Is to stick to the
game and see It through, to 'hold
I h r nozile agin the bank,' as Jim
Bludfo would say, It has been a
man with no resource outside of his
business. Naturally, my action Is a
mistake In the eyes of such a man;
but think of the pathos of such a
I option, where, In a world of so
much Interest and an age so fasci
natingly full of worth-while thh-.g.
a man has allowed himself to become
so absorbed In his business that he
has become a slave to It and to it
alone, and cannot imagine another
man happy without the same bone
at which to gnaw.
"It 13 this lesson that the Ameri
can business man has still to learn:
that h" Is not living a four-tquared
life if he concentrates every waking
thought on his material affairs. He
has still to learn that man cannot
live by bread alone. The makiiu- o
money, the accumulation of material
power, Is not all there is to living.
Life Is something more than those
two things, and the man who misses
this truth misses the greatest Joy
and satisfaction that can come Into
his life that Is, from service for
others.
"Some men argue that they can
give service and be In busin'-ss too.
But "service' with such men generally
means the drawing or a check for
some worthy cause and letting it go
at that. I would not for a moment
belittle the giving of contributions,
but it is a poor nature that can sat
isfy itself that It is serving human
ity by the mere signing of a check.
There is no form of service so easy
F.nd so cheap as to give a check to
cin object with the interest stopping
there. Heal service is where a man
rives himself with his check, and
'hat the average business man can
not do If he remains in affairs. Par
ticularly true is this or today, when
every problem of business is so en
grossing, demanding a man's fullest
time and thought. It is the rare i
man who can devote himseir to busi-j
ness and be fresh tor the service of!
others atterward. No man can, with'
efficiency to either, serve two mas
ters so exacting as are these. He can
do one or the other effectively; both,
he can do only Ineffectively."
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