Ere they reach a challenge length.

He was immediately assailed as a militarist, and yet, had we but taken
those preparatory steps, millions of lives might have been saved.




CHAPTER IV


And thus we approach one of the problems which this book is designed to
solve. There are eight million men in this country between the ages of
forty-five and sixty-four. Probably we may count upon another million
from the men of sixty-four to seventy who would be "prospects," as the
mining-men say. These men represent nine-tenths of the financial and
executive strength of the United States.


THE SENIOR SERVICE CORPS

When I started the experiment of the Senior Service Corps at New Haven,
in the spring of 1917, all my men were over forty-five, and several of
them had passed the seventy mark; yet all found increased health and
efficiency from the prescribed regime. There was a distinct gain, not
only in health, but in spirits and in temper. Nerves that had been at
high tension relaxed to normal. Effort that had seemed exhaustive became
pleasurable. The ordinary problems of business or finance, once so apt
to be vexatious, lost their power to produce worry. In fact, these men
had renewed their youth; they had altered the horizon-line of advancing