n came the lesser gods of material success. They broke the nation apart. But it survived. Since the Civil War we have grown rich and fat, flaccid and spineless. We are like a great, ca

ry of Youth? If the youth is to become a real man he cannot be curbed to the extent of forg

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o be young, and none can bear it like their elders." How can a youth whose blood is warm within sit like his grandsire carved in alabaster? He cannot and he wil

youth. At one time they would have eliminated all the sports. But we didn't let croquet become the national

business fail. Do you want your boy to fold his hands and say t

imum of old man's caution that he reduc

tion to be strong and sound. There will always be

air play and may

order to protect his country. A boy may over-emphasize his sports, but he will get over that. They tell us about the good old times when boys at colle

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s when expressed in those same terms of good hard dollars. Many manufacturers in the last two or three years have awakened to the fact that when, they put in a man and he stayed with them only two or three months, or even, in the case of executives, two or

oard of Defense are doing now-namely, till midnight and beyond. But the German General Staff was taken

f hours he was running his automatic machinery, and instead of doubling the amount of oil actually cut it in half and thus ruined the machines, he would be regarded as a fool. Yet we are letting our men, high in executive positions, heads of departments in the government, an

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ar, and that his company had just given him a bonus of fifty thousand; hence he could not shirk his responsibilities. He paid the full me

. Volney Chase, of the Navy, fifty-six years of age. Capt. Campbel

the excuse that a man has not the time to obey, or is doing something that his country most urgently needs, has no weight in that court. When Nature touches a man on the shoulder and says, "Stop!" he stops. The penalty of frayed nerves, overworked brains, and underworked bodies is failure of body and mind.

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ficiently pressing to do much more than attract the attention of the health boards, and perhaps a few recently organized and semi-philanthropic bodies. But suddenly there flamed out a war in Europe,

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