THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHER ADVISES RETIREMENT AT 50
Edward W. Bok Leaves Maga zine After 31 Years, Follow own Advice
K. U. Profs Discuss Idea
Different Opinions Are Among The University Faculty Regarding the Plan
New York, Nov. 25.-Edward W. Bok's advice to successful American business and professional men and women to retire from active work at 50 years of age and devote the remaining years to enjoying life and engaging in civic and welfare work has met with a variety of opinions, pro and con.
Addressing a luncheon in Philadelphia, Mr. Bok, who himself quit as editor of the Ladies' Home Journal recently after thirty-one years of service, said he would no doubt say, 'are you well?' Then they look at me as a curiosity for retiring. That is what men should do. They should not wait until they are so old they can wear glasses. Get out of business to time them a movie on your community.
"There are forty men in Philadelphia who should do as I have done. Then interesting themselves in civic work, what a power they would be in aiding our mayor in making our city what it ought to be."
KANSAIS CAMPUS VIEWS EXPRESSED The Daily Kansaan put Mr. Bob's theory to acid test at the University here and there, and collected the following expressions from men on the Hill.
John Ise, professor of economics—“The business man of today should have the civic and welfare interest at heart before he reached 50. He should devote a part of his life to public work as he lives it. It takes training to be an executive in any other kind of work, and when a man has put fifty years of his life into some other business he can not suddenly change to public welfare work and succeed at it. Darwin, Carnotie, President Wilson, and many other public works until they were past fifty. A man should keep on working until the last. Get full value out of him. Mr. Bok's idea amounts to taking of high grade talent and putting it into the poorest position."
Guy Penny, superintendent of the journalism department press—Mr. Bok's no doubt is an excellent one for Mr. Bok to follow. Likewise, it works well with Philadelphia men, to whom he refers, and for many others in different cities. There's no argument in it as a whole. It's a good idea if it fits better than the average doesn't fit. It will be generally adopted on the same day that all printed matter from circus lithographs to brochures on philology all carry the same size type, store stores only one size of shoes and store stores only one size in garments.
"Suppose you put some of the highly trained scientists on the Hill into some other work at 50, after they have spent years in their work? Ninety- one percent are more capable to be miserable and to usefulness. Their training has refined them, drawn them out to fine wires, so to speak, and fine wires can be used only for certain things, harp and violin strings, etc. They don't make good cable's cables.
"Anyway, this discussion is useless so far as university is concerned. No matter how useful he might be as a professor, you should not give professor ever got money enough to quit the daily grind at 50. If Mr. Bok proposed that University professors retire at the age of 600 and devote their time to teaching the idea more work, perhaps."
GREAT WORK DONE AFTER 50
Dr. H. W. Humble, professor of law, says, "I think it would be an excellent thing if the business man could look forward to retiring at the age of 50. One of the greatest blessings of retirement is the large number of men of financial means who devote themselves to public affairs without thought of financial reward. Such a group of persons in this country would undoubted be of great value to society. Illumina I do not believe that man
should be forced to retire at the age of fifty. If one will examine the lives of Roosevelt, Wilson and many other prominent men of recent years, he will find that what is considered their greatest work was done after they retired. The difficulty to set any good force for retirement, because so much depends on the state of preservation of the individual. If any particular age has to be fixed for forced retirement, I am sure to place it at 65 rather than at 50."
KEEP ON WORKING, SAYS CADY Prof. H. P. Cady—"I see no reason why a man should not keep on doing what he is trained to do and is able to do, even after he has reached the age of fifty."
J. P. Jenson. "If these men are really producing at fifty years of age, would not the productivity of the nation be materially lessened if they were to retire and go into work of civic usefulness?" He had the answer; if they have had no other interest all their lives, other than making money? They would not be trained for civil work, and perhaps would fail to do it effectively. Of course, if this were a regular custom, they would perhaps give some time to play and experience life with more experience and information when they reached the retiring age of fifty.
"However, would men over fifty years of age be likely to have new ideas. Would it be a good thing to have all the young men of the nation learn to use civic duties? Old men performing civic duties? I am inbelined to think it would not."
Prof. F, E. Melvin—“Business men could of times be of more civic usefulness in their private business than if they were retired.”
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Prof. Lefcethz—"If n business man is capable, he can have capacity for civic usefulness, I would say, yes." If for fifty years he has tried to improve his
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private fortune, then I think it would be a good thing for him to retire at fifty, and do civic work. It is quite possible, though, that he can so conduct his private business as to be of much use to the public."
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