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1 0-19 (11-22-55) Tolsor Nichol Boardman Behitor Mason Mohr Wintg Holloman Gand Specia. Article. Youth Is A State Of Mind 'by General Douglas MacArthur Youth is not entirely a.time of life--it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, and red lips or supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life. It means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin; but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing child- like appetite for what's next, and the joy and the game of life. Wash. Post and. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young Times Herald as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your Wash. News hope, as old as your despair. Wash. Star In the central place of every heart there is a recording cham- N. Y. Herald ber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and Tribune N.Y. Mirror courage, so long are you young. N. Y. Daily News. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with Daily Worker the snows of pessimism and the vice of cynicism, then, and then The Worker only are you grown old.. New Leader +X3 104. INDEXED - 3: Date 63_75373-j 126,FEB 5 1957