Show Q 4 1 Id Ideals als Still Grip Men I 10 Q eo 0 r A. A NUMBER of rather notable things have i t taken ken place in our country the p pa c t deca decade e Among them is the h strange 1 has come over the lIttle band of sious thinkers thinkers' who who once vere so active Tn in J kinds Of f political and social ocial 1 So marked has this this' tendency been that even v n th the Nation a magazine of of by and for 1 recently ran a series of on 1 has become of the pre pre v r radicals The flit answers answers- were int interest interest- rest rest- ins ing Through mOst of them there ran ran al of f comment something like this this' The people arent aren't capable of following t great grat causes We We have haye given iven up the fight b because ause it is impossible to get anywhere by bya a pealing to the better nature of the aver aver- a ag man Folks are too selfish and too indifferent indifferent in- in different to ves to to the service 0 That That would be rather sad rather sad if it were true But it ft i 1 There here is is' is n mistake more tragic tin putting too low Iowan an estimate on the averI avera aver aver- I at a mans man's capacity for s sacrificing self service I Tile Th e truth of the matter is that the worlds world's leders have never yet had the vision to call f and freely on mankind's spi spiritual energy Hold even the most tarnished ideal up before men and if it has in it any portion of 1 they they- will flock flock- to your standard in ind d ves What do you you suppose led two m men n to die on the battlefields of Europe b e en and 1918 I p fue Not at all 1 Dimly and blindly these men fen felt that J t ey vere vere- giving themselves to something 1 b get and finer than their own selfish ends They responded in amazing nobility and to the call of the only tHeir r rulers lers had given them They will dP if lithe fhe same call cal is made ltha lias been s so and always will be T. T ef in an a flood of selfless energy that some sonie someday day will rise and send the citadels 1 d' d wrong t toppling forever into t the e o of discar ed things Those who Sit in tITe high high places are who should q icken their ideals Let them thern but sound uk te right right- call and they will g get t a a response t Ii sh ke the world o. o |