Show An eastern paper of much power sa says s that Twelve dead an and l hurt is the best summary of football casualties available for the season just I ended But there is a better way to look at it Old I General Blucher who c came me to Wellington's support I late in the in-the the day on that fearful field of Waterloo was wont vont to ride over battlefields the morning after a battle and seeing the dead would remark that it had to be that they were born for that that they were human debris which the flood of battle battIer cast up and it could not noti be De helped So we might say of the football players that get killed It is pitiful to think of a a. being killed that way but then none of us know how much the young man w was s spared by being called ayay away in that manner manner Most 1 people live as long as they ought to some sonic live too long and aDd football players know knot before th they y go gon goin in the risks and they would not be satisfied were they kept out There is another feature about it It is a good od test of how far we have drifted away from the e early r y barbarism of the world There was a time when no law was recognized except the law of might men were brutes women were vero slaves violence was the thern rn rule e and even to this day when a n man beco becomes nes in incensed incensed incensed in- in censed his hi's first instinct is to fight As long as that remains so there will be football and other dangerous games And then it is better for a young man to tobe tobe tobe be killed in a football game than to be killed by typhoid through drinking milk supplied by a careless careless careless care care- less dairyman r We e are prone to lament when people are killed We are not half hali careful enough to prevent their being killed |