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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918 ml mm HI ii Retire-and You'll Grow Old; Stay in Harness and Keep i Youth, Health, Happiness' Kerr, Trust Company Head at 67, Following Footsteps of Predecessor 85, Says Modern Busi ness Life Has Stretched Original Three Score Years and Ten, That Work Keeps Men Young and That Retirement Is Quickest Road to Old 1 Age, hnttnfimi man" lim iu i ii iuau wuu ttuxj iu ukiuixsi In the realm of real cqntent "old ago" doesn't wean "quitting time," tut Is only a signal to "hold on tight going around the curve." These are the ecntlmonts, boiled down to sentences, of Mr. Walter Kttr, who at sHUy-seven ia actively on thg job an President of tho Now Teric Life Insurance and Trust Company, No, 62 Walt Stroet, having cn- ta tho employ of that house forty-six years ago as a junior clerk. Mr. Kerr, howovcr, does not consider himself "old." He has been president of tho company only since 1915, when ho succeeded Henry Parish. Afi Mr.

Parish, who use president for forty-four years, did not resign uatll 1)0 was clghty-ave, and then, Instead of Idling, remained with tho ompany as chairman of its board of trustees until hla death. The writer handed Mr. Kerr the following paragraph clipped from the Thrift Magailne. man should strive to live In working harness. Many a man about sixty and spend tho rest of his years with nothing to do but lead a ge4d headed cane around by tho hand.

It Is thrifty to stay on the job Just as possible. EYcry mnn should make tho century plant his farorlto 'fldwerand the undertaker his worst 'Do thlnlc a man ought to re-tine!" He repeated In surprlso the question which the proffered clipping. "I shouldn't think so-nOt unless he's feeble. A man his greatest happiness In his wirk. "Well, maybo not his greatest but cortalnly great con-tefctmeht, Then is nothing like wrk to keep us satisfied, Uefet of us aro lost without It.

No, personally I Jiave never nentvea in retiring that is. of course, as loag as he ts young and ablo to do lift, work." i That word "young" had slipped unconsciously from Ills lips, but It gave a. great insight Into the man's nature, "Konto of tho headu of our banks ond.trust companies," Mr. Kerr con-tlnued, "are as old as if not older than myself 1 know several that have been ot tho grindstone long before I was. and I suppose It you asked tlswa-about it they would say they were' Just beginning to get to work." fc ''But como of them do rotlrc." Mr.

Kerr was reminded. "Now. and then a man focls that he boa mado enough money, and decides to take a rest and enjoy it Don't these men th enjoyment they retired to have tort" "Well," ho replied, "once In a great while one ot them gots olj enough tcu rotlre and moves to his estate along the Hudson to remain In Idleness fir the rest or his life, but it is not often. That word "rettru" has minister meaning to a man who lias hod his hand on tho helm of a big Industry or a big corporation or a big bonking und trust company. It means Idleness, und idleness, ta their category, is not In tho faintest degree syoonymoua with happiness." Searing out Mr.

Kerr's analysis Is fc. long list of rocorded cases whera mta accustomed for long years to the activity of business life have quit only to retirement a palling experience and havo iclurnod to harness and happiness. For others the change has meaot, not only the end of contentment but a breakdown ot health and nerves and not infrequently a curtailment or life itself. Men kept young by work have not begun to ago, at least in feeling and uppearancc, until tfiiy became mentally or physically idle. "The rush and hUrry of our Amerl-cjy-i business lite," Mr.

Kerr explained, "Ijaa stretched the original threescore jjtirs and ten to an clastic. Indefinite period depending altogether on the c4rgy of tho individual and his abil ity, to ward off the gentleman with tho French Folk Tend yAyNthl the wooded slope of a hill that lss in a bend of the Heine just on tho edgo ot Paris there la a little cemetery that Is doing much I' to weld another link In the chain 1 o-; friendship binding Franco and vunenoa. I Among-tbe 700 graves of soldiers In Jp tuts cemetery are many graves of AWrhjan boya who hav succumbed to their 'wounds In tho hospitals In tltf suburbs of the city. every one of tho American graves: has been "adopted" by some I'jnch family, which, takes caro of ttw gravo ns though one of tbelr own dead, lay there. Many funnies have adapted from three to five of tho Ilttlo i Hounds, and ono prominent French yrefcselonal men ot Paris baa "slotted" flfteeu and insists upon tsMlaff them with his own hands.

pU'toUM of 'aetsfrwrcaU'! rlianrA rtf tmi! hannttiiof than at least 100 years. and die all hitched I feels that ho would like to rcllro at scythe and tho hour glass. Nowaduyi a man Is not old until ho admits that ho is old, ami if ho uo will It, ho can remain young until almost tho very lost moment ot the final reckoning. "That tame rush and hurry has been eald to rap tho vitality of thoso who como in touch w)th It. dally and constantly, to break down their nerves and, In a word, to kill thorn off.

To tho reverse of tlilo thcro la a far groatcr probability that It stimulates their living powers Instead ot checking them. Certainly thorn ls'no greater my lit than tho tired business man, for thero Is not a banker, law yer or broker ot lowor Manhuttun who uas time to bo bored; or tho in clination either, for that matter. They aro on the it ts exciting, bracing, tho vitul spurlt of llfo In In tho air they broathu und It' keeps them alive, for if any of tbcao big men wlioso names are written high on tho tablets of, success wcro token to tho country and allowed to otagnato on farm in quiet seclusion to do In a year they would bq old, In two years they would bo feeble, and in but short tlmo mora they would bo entering their second childhood In a tottering, decrepit old age." As a living refutation of Dr. Will-lam Osier's much dltcusyed theory tii ut all mnn over sixty iihould be "eliminated," Mr. Kerr puts In a strenuous working day which begins at 9.30 In tho morning and does not end until (n tho afternoon.

lie com mutes dully his home is in Kast Orungo-rand walks from tlio tubo to his otllce. This, rain or shine. Mr. Kerr is a man whom the casual observer would take to he ubout fifty, possibly nfty-flve, but hardly morn than that. Illu quick luugli rings with a note of youth, his eyes are as keen and bright ns they ever were and his flguro far more erect and Bturdy thin his years might seem to v.mi runt.

He has given a son, fa'ergt. acorge S. Kerr of the 106th Infantry, to this country, tor ho was' killed In action in France, but tho father hai brought his Ufolong philosophy to Oils aid, and he is utlll able to sralle at a world that he knows Is all governed for the best, "No, thcro Is do doubt in my mind," Mr. Korr eald as bo Hhook hunds, "that old ago is hot a matter ot years; It Is simply a condition wliloli exists In the mind." A fairly largo truth, if one should happen to ask, and It was voiced In. a most convincing manner by a man who la a shining exumplo ot tho gos.

pel he expounds. Our Boys' Graves Include besides the care of the grave an effort to get' in touch with tho relatives ot the dead hero In America to tell them about the resting place of their fallen soldier, Kvery of the adopted graves Is tended scrupulously. Fresh flowers ore placed frequently and the American nag at tho head of the grave Is renewed when It Is faded. On Sun-dayu it is not unusual to see a dotcn French women in deep mournimr. 6pmetlmes accompanied by a troop otl Bober-faced children, reverently car ing for tho grave, ot an American who has fallen on the soil of France.

When a military funeral draws, up to tho gate of the cemetery and tenderly deposits another flag-druped cptlln. tho children gravcly-balutc und follow tho Ilttlo procession to tho new grave, and stand quietly while thu chanlaln rmcLt the ilmrln and vhA bueler coundu tiu i 1 New York's "Chateau- Thierru" Club Wounded Heroes From By Will B. Johnstone. Tin: "cimtu mnat cxclu uu-Thlcrry" Is the cluulvo club In New York City. Clubmen wli.i dawdle In the windows of tho inoHt promlnunt Fifth Avenue club hou.iej would count It a irreut lltliiotlon to bo Included In Us select member ship.

To be eligible one must have served hlu country on toldlcr. mmlno or aalfor, und ncrv.d "until It hurt," for only hospital convalcaocnt.s In uni form nro privileged to enter the "Chateau" cotcrlo. Tho club liouso Is located lit No. nCekman Place. 0lh Street mid tluil Kast ttlvcr, und Ih tinder tho nuiiplcen of tho Now York County Chapter of the lied Cross.

Hurry Kiinpp Is President und Mrs. Khephcrd 1C de Forest Is chulrmuu of tho Kxecutlvo Committee. Here, In a comfortablo three-story home, overlooking tho river, iwo welcomed tho boys who aro utile to short recesses from tho servlco hos-pltuls situated ubout town, and In the "chateau" thty find entertainment ulong with conifoits of homo provided by kind and Kontle women who tactfully cater to their wants without destroying the club's stag utmos-There. It la a great diversion for tho con valescents and relieves tho monotony of their hospital routine. The club has Its own motor ambu lance, that makes tho rounds of the liospltuls every day.

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New York lltenlnr WoiM.) It ILK war. jis ou nmv hnvo gathered from certain unusual sounds In! the early dawn of Nov. 11, Is In a Ilttlo while nil our walk among us In cLvlllan clothe, though never again, thank tho fortuuea of war, with tho civilian blouch. Our smaller army of women la uniform will demobilize even uioi'o rapidly. And as thoy put outdo their sober scrgo and serviceable khaki and don with uow grace and quickened zest tho garments of peace und beauty, their thoughts will soften olmllarly, will turn again to their ancient preoccupation with tho ono art for which woman has a unique, an Indlsputcd genius tho art ot being or seeming beautiful.

Tho llfo ot every beautiful woman and there arc v'. 1 JTTT1 few women who cannot at ono. tlmo or another appear beautiful boslns with a declaration of war, a ruthless Invasion by Iloches, with whom no armlatlco over with whom no pormancnt peace ever can (bo con-eluded. These Iloches aro tho years which, having no moro respect for thq temples of beauty than Ludendorft's legions had for tho Cathedrals of Rtiolms and Arras, wugo ceaseless war upon bright eyes and Hps, soft curves and slnuoun lines which turn, indeod, tho Hlg Dcrthas of usro and worry upon all the light artillery of Dut even theso Pochcs are not in- vincible. For to them every woman may speak tho immortal words of Pobiln to Castlenau before Verdun: They shall not pass! Now, 1 do not mean that every woman shall go forthwith nnd spend JJ5 on beauty lotlonB and look six-teen years-old.

It has been my ob-ecrvatlon that no woman ever looks quite so old as when vbe is France Have an "Exclusive" Organization All Their. Own Honorable Scars the Only Means of Entry. I Kfu 1 1 Arfi if r3tr- i iiic nlso used to brlii7thc members 1,10 11 company has gcneiousiy donated two vohlclcs fon truuHportatloii. Coffee, tea, cocoa, blbcults and nmhv'hos uro ucrv tho boys every afienioon gr.itt, and If member Is unable to bo brought In from tho ninbulanco refreslimcnts uro carried out to the curbstone, The club liouso la fitted out with mimical instruments, A professional platiu player shouts all the latest "hits," encouraging tho boys to harmonize between clgarotto puffx, as they loungo In easy chair. 'I ho writing room Includes typewriters lor tho boys to tinker with und they luvo a pool room und reading room.

Soldiers with arms In slings or on canes and crutches fratemlsp with pallors and marines over card games nnd swap experiences of the trenches and hair-raising nubimuino The Incapacitated boys find 41 bond Four Ages of Beauty No. 1 The Lion Hearted Rose over. little, young crusaders In khaki will love. ously got up to seem young. Hut why look sixteen? Why WANT to 109k sixteen? Wo do not havo to bo violets or lilies of tho valley or crocuses that push their Impudent little' up through tho late March snow.

Thcro are, In fact, far too many orocuses in America's garden of'gtrls. And' the TS In their common disablement and though they nro wounded in body, they aro unscathed In spirit. Gayer souls ono could not find, nnd these boys fresh fiom tho welter of deadly combat aro so gentlo and polite. It fives 11 civilian 11 guilty feeling to have a hero say "Yes, sir." and "No, sir," lo him. for instance, P.alph Nelson, a blond stripling from Climax, Minnesota.

Ho "dldnt do anything especial," to hear him tell It. Ho only went through the hell of Hellcuu Wood and bullets through tho neck and arm. His famous CUi llegl-ment Marines was merely dec-jr-ated en masso by the French. Tlalph not only wears this red citation cord on his left shoulder, but nn "expert marksman's decoration. Ho told of the Marines' fighting slogun, origin- ated by un old Sergeant: "Como on, you ulankcty blanks, do you want tot Ilvo forever!" I crocus Idea of beauty pervades our tlA 1,, rt I lltu Hill, VUl nUIIICU tilt-l, most charming hour.

Who would bo a pert Ilttlo spring crocus who could bo a deep, lion-hearted rose? And roues bloom, or can blocm, from the last week In May to the weelt in November, even In Now York where the cllmnto Is not especially good for roses. Then, too, thoro Is always uomu-thing left of ft rose. Even Its dead leaves havo charm, perfume, delight. And as roso leaves fall, every dropping petal only brings ono nearer' to Its golden heart. Tho secret of being a 1 oho Is what? Why, having a golden heart, of course! Tho Girl of tho Clolden Heart Is tin, roso among women.

Tho roso of tho world. Who need not fear tho blight, of ago upon her perfumed cheek, tho frost of ycura upon her tnagnetlq hair. For all these Invasions of tlmo tho aich-Prussian will leavo tho golden heart untouched, 'the coro of beauty undented. For certalnpcrsons with too literal minds, I must say here that the girl with the golden heart does not mean ono of those syrupy, unintelligent optimists with whom our times are too much beset. To roe sho la the woman who, Knowing SMfitttfcmtmiiuti rr TfT's ii'MTTirTTr Tti Ii irr rm in'i ftiTi LEO AWACKl, sepr.a6T' PRIVC tarven Crow and Ieo Z.vvac.'il, of different outfits, fell In the sanie at.

MIMcl drive. They lovo the club und forset they have cuch lost a rlsbt arm. I.eo can pump the piano pluyer with his feet and entertain Man-en and' have a Jolly tlmo. Shrapnel got them; Like Caesar's legions their wounds aro in front, not counting a red sear on Leo's back from contact with a muslurd gas covered stick he laid on while' his arm was being bound up. Marvon was born in Missouri, but there's nothing of th "show mo" about him.

Charles Smith, an Indian, makes an odd looking Ho is a Chippewa gob. This descendunt of savagery after fighting subs and losing an eardrum hands It to tho Germans for shaming hi3 ancestors at tho game of barbarism. Charles Preslng and Louis Perkins, Charles a Hoonler, 1juIh from Pickering, were wounded nt Chateau-Thierry, July IS. Tho consciousness of duty well done Is their reward. "Dollars couldn't pay me for tho pride I hav in my wounds." said Louis In his soft Southern accent.

Such r.ra tho members cf tho club. Honorable wounds set a high price for admis sion to tho Chatcau-Thlcrrv Club, 1 hence Its cxclustveness. But the club is well worth tho in Ice of admission. If you don't believe It, ask tho mem. hers ho enjojed tho Thanksgiving dinner jestorduy, given by Mrs.

Htutstalt and Miss Schmld. ubout life, loves it, who, far too wise to bo deceived by nil our Ilttlo pre-tenses and hypocrisies, yet fuses them all to beauty la tho crucible of her warm pity. Tho other night heard Yvettb Ciullbcrt a girl with a golden heart, If ever thero was one say to an uu-dlcnec: "Have you thought how coldly vwo pass a poor, old blind begyar In tho street? Havo you ever seen a rich mini take a bug of gold down among tho poor and glvo It out this way, right und left? No. Yet what a beautiful action that would bet" In tho part year I havo been but Ilttlo to tho theatre. liut ot tho women I havo seen therein, two remain In my memory as having conveyed to mo tho greatest Impression of beauty.

Thoy wcro Mrs. Flsko as Qeorgo Sand. In a ruby coloicd evening dress, und Yvctto Gullbcrt, In a powdered wig and a gold ullk gown. Doth theso women are beyond tho ago. ut which beauty is believed pos-tlble to women.

Yet they dazaled and culhrullcd ut least ono onlooker who In years might bo tho daughter of cither. These aro women of genius yes, but they aro also women of ripe years. what they do any woman of tho same ago can do If only aho will get out of her head tho Idea of looking like a hard Ilttlo-spring crocus and bo content to bloom until No- verabcr as a llon-Ucartcd ruse. unrtf 1 1 Dere 31 a l(le Love Letters of a Rookie BY LIEUT. EDWARD STRESTER (Illustrated by Corpt.

Th ird of a series of "DU1111 ItXULD" Letters tchich The Uvcntn is fiuMliiIti) oft Hifs page. i World "I DON'T LIKE oDmz. IHAVNT rote for some tlmo I had eueb sore feet latelyr 'When they broke up our regiment and sent me over to tho artillery 1 thought I was golu to quit U3ln my feet. That was another roomor. Thanks for the box of stuff you Bent roc.

I guess the brakeman must have used It for a chair all tho Way. It was pretty well baled but that dont matter. And thanks for the fudge too. That was fudge wasn't And the box. They dont fit but I can uso them for eomc- it.

MaV.c? thin. X'good soldier never throws nothln away. An, thank your mother for the hulf pair of gloves, sho sent me. I put them nway. Maybo sometime'shell get a chanco to nit the other half.

Or it I cvor get all my fingers shot off theyll come In very handy. Tho arUUerys a little different tho Infantry. They mako us work hurder. At least theres moTo Wbrk on tho fckcdulc. I know-now what they mean when they say that tho "artlllcrys active on tho western front." 1 They got a drill over here called the standln gun drill.

Tho names luislttidln. I guess it was Inrented by a troop of Jap akrobats. They mako you get up and 6lt on tbo gun. Before you can set settled comfortable they make you get down again. It looks llko they dldnl know just what they did want you to do.

I dont like the sargent. I dont llko any sargent hut this ono ir-tlcular. The first day out he kept sayln "Prepare to mount" and then "MounL" Finally I went up to him and told him that as far as 1 was concerned he could cut that stuff for I was always prepared to do what I was told even though It was tho uiltidlo of tho night. He said, Fine, then I was probably prepared to scrub pans all day. Sunday.

1 don care much for horses. I think they feel the samo way about mc. Most ot them are so big that the only thing there good for Is the lcw ot the camp you get when you climb up. Tuey aro what tbey call hors do combat In French. My horso died tho other day.

I gues It wasnt much effort for him. If It had boon ho wouldnt have dono It. They got a book they call Drill Ucgulatlons Field and- Light. Thutu as ccnslblo as It Is ull the way through. For Instance tbey say that when the command for action is given ono man jumpa for the wheel and another feprlngs for tho trail and another leaps for tho muzzle.

I guess tho fello that roto tho regulations thought we wcro a bunch of grass hoppers. Well 1 got to quit now an rite a buuch of other girls. Thanks agnln for the box although It was so busted that it wasnt much good but that dont matter. Yours till you hero otherwise, DILL. Th remtlit cf mt MiU Mm Ii ruMl.lifd In lolc frm, Laws of the Road for Aerial Travellers NH more milestone In tho flgl.t to conquer the air will bo pas.wd when "The Aero Bluo nook and Directory." which is being brought out by the Century Company, passes Into the hands of tho public and becomes a factor in the work-a-day buutners of flying.

Advance proofs of tho publication were shown to-day by Henry Woodhousc, Its cd-Itor. The alms of the new book aro to a largo extent tho samo that havo been carried out in the Automobile Ulue Hook. Just how "road houses" will bo advertls-ed or designated ia one of tho problems of tho future, but Mr. Woodhouso looks confidently for ward to tlie day when all good hotels will bo equipped with landing stages for aeroplanes and says thero Is no doubt that the air routes encompassing the globo will bo mapped out as definitely as are tho roads to-day. Tho Aero Illue Hook plans to contiol general traflle and bo tho ofllclal organ of tlje great system of transpoi-tatlon which will some day travel through Iho One of tho most Interesting article la llrat.

bsuo. Is-, tho description G. William Brcck) (CornUW. ISIS, br tJrfck Stei Compin.) jflt ANY SARGEANT" of tho new transcontinental pathway to be known as the "Woodrow Wilson'-Aerial Highway" over which tho pro. posed coast to coast acrlul mall will bo carried.

The highway takes In a belt eighty' miles wide reaching from Now Yok to San nnd going by tho way of Cleveland, Toledo, Chlc.1?o and Cheyenne. It croswa tho Itocky Mountains in Wyoming at a height of 11,000 feet abovo sea level. Tin first plan was to mako this highway a istrajght Hno between the two coast cities, but tho designers looked forward and saw tho possibilities ot Including tho big cities. Mr. Woodhouso behoves that aerial mall will bo carried over thW high, way, tho express covering the dlstuneo In forty-elght hours, the local ueroplancs stopping every fc-miles to deliver mall to small towns on the way.

1 A STRANGER. the llrst target practice of the' new leci-uiis tno rookie from mnnncr and cried, "Who in tho ri A mo sum K-und was earnestly pbo Ins commands, Svhcn the cupta 11 leully shouted. "Fire atlrilli" Tho looked nrmimi in.