Show Check Emotion By Toughening Y Youths Youth's uth s Fiber I 1 By OLIVE ROBERTS BA BARTON TON Sometimes I wish the race had hadeen been een born without power to feel I dont don't mean touch but just emo- emo tion ion When I am distressed or discouraged discouraged discouraged aged or humiliated I have tried something like the Coue method I say ay over OYer and over to myself You dont don't feel anything Nothing at all i You are just just- justa a a bump like a stone or a clod of mud You dont don't matter You Tou don't dont feel You are a machine dead dead dead to all feeling And actually it does help I mater matter matter mat mat- ter er too much to myself We all matter too much to ourselves Who Vho Whon I on n earth cares how we feel And why should we care how we feel Now this is a dangerous philosophy philosophy phy hy but I do not believe too dan dan- erous Because it wont won't interfere with our sympathy for others It wont won't do anything but turn our eyes yes away from our ingrown ego and nd sorrow for or our plight And ItIs it itis its Is s high time that we desen desensitized ourselves if it you know what I mean Too Prone to Suffer Sutter I think little children suffer too much I think growing children childrens s suffer uffer the tortures of the condemned from rom inferiority and fear of people I think that the average adult is isa isa a cringing and pitiable creature robbed robed of his efficiency y because of 1 And nd the whole darn world is tired and sorry for itself I This is the product of civilization and nd nothing eLs else but butI I know full fuU well what many nany are thinking That my own peculiar reasoning i is haywire and that all the tie loveliness of living would be lost ost without the human element the he element of suffering Loveliness Loveliness Loveli Lovell- n ness ss always depends on suffering All AU this tirade on feeling because I think many of our our ur children get tired ired and sick and unhappy from sheer heer feeling They dont don't like to study tudy They don't dont like tb work They dont don't like to do much of anything anything any- any thing hing that takes real digging Then because they dont don't like it it they de develop develop develop de- de a real fatigue They arent aren't tired ired They are fighting their feelIngs feelings feel- feel Ings which generates a fatigue as aseal real eal as if they had pulled a Volga boat for 18 hours along mud banks 5 Ti Tiredness edness Not Physical What the actual muscles es and br brain in incan can an stand is so amazing that no none noone noone one ne would believe it if it I quoted facts acts Our bodies are capable of ofen often often ten en times as much w work rk as we do We are not physically ny or mentally tired ired when we complain of weariless weariness wean wean- ness less but unless unlesS' there is a real hitch hitchIn In n metabolism or body chemistry we are tired feelingly And so I say Do Dotry try to teach the children hildren to break away from thinking thinking think- think ing ng forever of themselves Toughen their heir fiber They cannot be treated as alligators that have no feeling of any sort and therefore live a thousand housand years but they can be taught aught to think that the way th they y FEEL TEEL about hustling or studying iS t going to ruin them I L dont don't want to standardize the race But neither do I wish to see us turn into nto a naU nati nation s Ji of self Give it some thought |