Show 9 I PLAY THE GIANT UT Dr mi DU II WiLliM AU i 1 n D. There is a popular phrase which I rather like When hen a a. man is seen to e facing a hard situation but dOing nobl nobly and without whining men s lay ayo 0 him that he is is' is playing the game J would l I have been easy to give to tho words a very different and less I e significance as It is we all what men mean and we honor the theof m n of 01 whom these words are spoken We e do not sa say of him He Me is m me ling ing his fate rate like a hero We Ve do no say lie He i is a man o of admirable l' l fort em sa tude We y see him m as he buttons 11 s sorrow or disappointment inside Ii h his s sf sown f own task rc vest without h and takes e up his tr disagreeable e any explanation x a or corn plaint and anti we say That man is pia 1 In the game Yes and he Js is playing to win t o oI oa oe man mai can a fail who faces es misfortune li heroic I determination e tI esTh Th The gi battle rl eil i 1 a read ready won in his own spirit The man who faces the fight so bravely that hIs friends f forget that he is in a life lire and death struggle and speak of or it asia game perceive of the real eal s significance of or his heroism This form of speech is not to be condemned con con- con j t too oo fI fine for as m that flippant fa A so sort It of has t grim a u quality humor r underlies it and a a. genuine perception of or what men admire and ought to ad j ad-j mire i im There is good precedent for this kind of ot talk tall St. St Paul Indulged in it lie Jle said i t that hat if a a. man were to play and win he hedu wouldn't du be e awarded the e prize I unless I S he had played I C Ca a according to the rules of the theS game h He said So run that y ye may ob ob- t tain am That Is to say So play that you OU may win He lie was likely to face death i in n the arena and he knew It and be z spoke pok of ot It as a game he was to pIa and win There er Is no conquering c U that ort of f ga J man You c 1 may kill I him as they Icil killed d St. St Paul but he dies a winner |