Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER WHO IS YOUR HERO SHORT time ago the police of a A great city picked up on abe street a destitute boy of fifteen he was raised and hungry hen they searched him at the station house the aly tiling they found in his pockets was a bit of crumpled paper upon ubach had been written as the title UT heroes and underneath were listed names theod ire roose el t general pershing jese jes e james traby the bandit captain hadd A berane list and yet there are comprehensible reasons for the presence of every name that this youthful individual hall of fame v to chose our heroes very early in lift the story of jack and the beanstalk has furnished many a ixil with his ideal of bravery 1 I chinson crusoe the characters atif anines cooer even the overdrawn adventures of tire old yet lw covers and the mckel library mid cap colliers creations thrilled many of us to ambitions which faded away with boyhood one thing ls certain no boy eer worshiped a man as a hero unless in his opinion he had done something extraordinary something that really entitled him to admiration if we pick our heroes for the pur of imitation we be very ardful t many men in all history ere delcarte arte of imitation in all the details of their ches every great inrid bis sume heakne an ideal lero would have to be a composite man a combination of the great with at their faults the moil popular hero that ever lived atas undoubtedly napoleon but t him robert ingersol said in one of he erea lest of hs short addresses it at be would be the humblest f french peasants than tre man at those command hundreds of thou nh hail died who Is tour hero why Is he your rn by newspaper Newa paper |