Show I T Rough Weather Ahead r rBy 4 By JOHN BLAKE It If we could reverse the rule of at life beginning with old age and progressing gradually to carefree childhood we would rc realize our dreams ms of heaven The child trusting to the protection of Its mother taking food and shelt shelter r as a matter of i course and constantly filled with wonder and deight delight de- de light ight at the discoveries it Is making Is-making approaches true I de-I happiness as closely as Is possible in this world But we cannot live backwards and it is Just as aswell aswell aswell well for the race including the children that we cannot It is freedom from responsibility that makes the child happy Its happy its complete dependence its lack of any need need to take thought for tOt what It shall shail eat or What hat It shall wear or how It shall be clothed And freedom m from responsibility will never ne de develop develop develop de- de the mind or make possible the achievement that is' is necessary to any progress The Tile span of or life can be compared to that of Q a hip which begins Its voyage In a smooth c calm lm sea e with gentle summer breezes and no sight Right of a storm In n the sky But unless that captain and crew are prepared for rough weather ahead perhaps ahead perhaps for such heroic heroic- efforts to save others as those successfully put forth by Captain Fried and his companions on the Roosevelt there Roosevelt re will be trouble On most of at our voyages rough rough weather wather Is' Is s s' s alwayS always al- al wayS ahead The summer seas will vili soon roon be lashed Into nto ugly combers and fogs or driving rain obscure the he course and keep kep the man on the bridge constantly constantly con con- on the alert lest another ship loom In the mist ahead and threaten a disastrous collision It Is a hard thing to make a child uh that hat the p peace ace and happiness s of ot youth will not alays always always al- al ways ays last that he soon must b be disillusioned that every every ery one is not as friendly and Interested as his mother and that unless he grits his teeth and prepares pre prepares pre pre- re- re pares to battle pattIe with meanness and injustice injusticeS he might as well give Kive up hope But nut such instruction is necessary and the sooner the he bo boy or girl on the edge of at man or womanhood Is s made to see wh what t conditions condition actually are the less ess likely will the they be to become despondent when the truth ii is tull fully revealed to them And it must be remembered that the ship usually I weathers the storms however violent they may be and reaches port a a. little b battered perhaps but with all well on board For a time the going may be hard and the outcome outcome outcome out out- come uncertain There may be added risk in pausing by the way to succor some vessel which set forth Insufficiently prepared for lot rough weather But with care and foresight the voyage can be made safe afe It is too much to expect that it will be made pleasant for tor its ita whole duration But at the end nd there are the calm waters o of at old age and the comforting knowledge that despite the storms and the trouble and the anxiety the jouney journey jour jour- ney proved well worth making It seems as we said ald at the beginning too bad that we cannot be always children But there are pleasures Measures of maturity which will vill come with effort that hat are more satisfying than the innocent delights of youth Copyright 1 26 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |