—From “Too Much Exercise” by Samuel G. Blythe, from the July 4, 1925, issue of The Saturday Evening Post
It is a regrettable but inescapable fact that the entire scheme of things is all cluttered up with old birds of 50 and more who hold control of the big jobs, own the profitable businesses, hang onto the important places, direct the financial distributions, horn in on the sports and pastimes, and, in general, make senile nuisances of themselves, and refuse, profanely, to admit the truth of the adolescent adage that the place for the aged is in the back seat.
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