Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-28 | Page 8 | Your Army

J 4 Your Army Anny I IBy I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE Have Ha you ever thought of 01 the long army of ancestors ancestors ancestors an an- at whose head you ou march You have two parents Multiplying back twenty gen generations your ur ancestors number Less than a thousand years a ago ao o there were over overa a million of you jou The procession would be almost miles mUes long When hen you walk to town and back a couples of 01 miles mUes awa away at a moderate rate the last tast ancestor gets home five days later Picture that long line Une stretching away Ancient bearded Saxons fair haired Norsemen or dark skinned the line Une may run run ia whole gamut of races and fashions Princes and beaux and blustering seamen seamen N poets and plowmen the kind and the cruel the haughty and the humble the upright and the devious all aU are In the line Une All Alt these many men who long ago were dust form your our army anny You march at the head of the procession You are tha commander Where will you ou lead lead- Will you be master of 01 your our um army or will they find you weak and overpowering you make you their slave Napoleon a genius In things military said I have ha one counsel for you you you Be master Someone has said Bach one of us Is an omnibus omnibus omni omni- I bus In which al all of our ancestors ride An authority on heredity Albert Edward Wiggam Wiggam Wig Wig- gam says we cannot Improve e the actual traits of These come down to us and cannot be changed But he says sas the way the human race rate can be Improved ed is to increase the number of human beings who possess the good traits and decrease those who possess the bad tr traits t This sane statement of the case se applies to the Individual as a's as well as the race You cannot alter the past you cannot change the constitution of your army You cannot affect what you OU inherit you But can command th the tha hereditary army anny you OU lead and not be led by it You can put the good traits in positions of command command com corn mand and bad traits In subservient places You can choose from your army counsellors who are arl wise and brave bra Instead of those who are mean and cowardly I You can lead your army and you ou can lead It upward Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate