Whether you are young or old, Dr. Lee's advice is, "Do something" and it is worth heeding. This is a creed that most of us in this room have lived by or we wouldn't be here. We should not abandon it now. When one is about to reach "three-score years and ten," it is a natural time for reflection. It is clear that there are more years to look back on than to look forward to. Those of my age arrived on the work scene in the Great Depression. The economic structure had broken down so badly it seemed almost beyond repair. One out of four in the work force was unemployed. Nor was there a safety net of unemployment insurance to cushion the fall. 9000 banks failed. People talked of market gluts, of how our capacity to produce had outstripped our capacity to consume, how production must be curtailed so that prices could be caused to increase. People had lost faith in many of the established institutions, and the cry was raised for new approaches to solve the problems that beset us. Business was being punished for the excesses of the Twenties and saddled with new restrictions and regulations. Then, as now, when-ever men's minds are troubled, they reach out for some enobling belief to lift their spirits, to put a ray of light in a darkened world. Pacificism was then a popular doctrine. As a generation we aspired to peace, little realizing that Mussolini's military adventure in Ethiopia was not comic opera but a prologue of frightful things to come. But we did do something! Those of us here have witnessed accomplishments in this last half century that exceed those of any comparable period in history. Consider the explosion of knowledge that has occurred, the giant 4