Show ROOSEVELT AND COURAGE I A few days ago in addressing some children at a Sundayschool festival J Theodore Roosevelt is reported to have said Grow up manly boys learn l to hold your on I despise you if you are cowards They are worthless We wonder what was the result of that unqualified statement on the lads present We rather Imagine there were numerous black eyes and bloody noses In town nextday sort of red badge of courage received in numerous cf forts to prove with fists that they were entitled to theapproval 1 and respect of then VicePresidentelect But boys tho ability to take physical punishment is l only one kind of bravery hut not the highest Neither is It always al-ways best to hold ones own A hearty fullblooded youth all muscles mus-cles and no nerves actually enjoys the giveandtake blows just as two young bear cubs will soundly cuff one another I in play But would you call only such a fellow fel-low brave and brand as coward a deli calc sensitive chap to whom a physical physi-cal I blow KS torture That Is not entirely a matter of bravery brav-ery It is often simply a matter of physical phy-sical condition l > The great Nupolcdn as a cadet was a pale sicklylooking Insignificant lad who was shunned h many of his comrades com-rades and regarded by them as very poor material I for a soldier Well you all know he became the greatest general gen-eral of the age To us this pale undersized cadet grimly enduring the scorn and contempt con-tempt of his comrades and quietly and laboriously working his way toward greatness is I a much in ore heroic figure than Napoleon on the battlefield Koosevclt himselfwas a sickly youth but he had the cournge to give up a lot that a oung man holds dear and went out West and dcvpied his heart and soul to making himself physically able to lead that strenuous l life he is so fond of talking about We know u young man who when he cut his finger slightly would almost faint at the sight ora few drops of blood But that was not cowardice thai was simply aphysical weakness Moral courage is more to be desired J and more difficult to posses than physical physi-cal courage I A very swell young fellow we know took a poor little country cousin to avery a-very fine dance She was plainlooking and awkward and was a mighty poor dancer The young man knew ho was cutting i ridiculous figure for ho was conscious con-scious of tho stares and Jeering smiles I of many of the thoughtless young people peo-ple present Still he went through tho ordeal in a manly gentlemanly way and was as devoted and gallant to the country mouse as he knew how to be Now you wont deny that it takes I I more courage to feel 1 you are making yourself ridiculous than to black the eyes of a couple of fellows |