Show be been en enen en t rye eats can answers answer s that question 7 It Is not to be S' S r answered by yes or no If we say yes we admit at once onceY Y that our old friends Ge George 0 r g e Washington and U. U S. S Grant were depraved characters because they fought and then kept on fighting If Buffalo Bill once upon a n time rode out across the plains and came upon a band of Indians attacking a settlers settler's cabin and went dashing up with his scouts and killed a few redskins redskins redskins red red- skins is there ther any boy In the world who would go back on Buffalo Bill Billand Billand Billand and pick out some quiet elderly real estate dealer denIer as a substitute hero heroIt's Its It's too foolish t to talk about Suppose we say It Is not wrong to fight Then we remove all blame from the Indians that Buffalo Bill killed and we ve find ourselves so mixed up that probably we had better back up an and take a n new start In answer to the question Is It wrong to fight there can be but one sensible reply as follows It all de de- de- de Suppose a boy of fourteen walking along th the street with his sister and the neighborhood bully swaggers around the corner and pushes the boy up against a n fence and cuffs him alongside alongside along along- side the head hend and then tries some in suiting familiarities on the sister and suppose the boy who Is thus hum humiliated humiliated and whose sister Is In tn tears suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly remembers that he has been told to keep out of fights 1 I What shall he do n Retreat treat to an alley or stand up In defense of his own self-respect self ant and try to protect his sister Suppose he lie says to the bully I believe belleve in peace and no matter what you do to me I wont won't strike back Then he would get a few more cuffs cuff for good measure and his sister would be ashamed of him and the little rowdy who attacked him would call hI himself cock of the walk and be a greater nuisance than ever before before The United States of of America Is involved Involved Involved In In- in hideous war because President President dent Wilson and and congress and all persons persons persons per per- sons who are warmed by red blood instead instead in in- in stead of being chilled by sarsaparilla pop had to make the same decision that every boy Is called upon to make when he is Jumped upon by a tough customer Another Question boys only Did you ever let a n boyup boy up before he yelled Enough and then have the whole fight over again If so you might go around in year neighborhood and give some valuable Information to people older than your your- self If you this Is for both boys and girls girls' went out into the woods for a picric picnic with another bunch of yours people you knew and liked and if your crowd had a basket of things to eat ent and the other crowd had a basket and some toughies came along and stole stoIa the bask basket t belonging to to the other crowd would you m give them something something some some- thing to eat out of f your jour basket or let the them sit over by themselves hungry and miserable and watch you stuff yourselves You'd play fair of course even if you had to go a n little hungry Mr 11 Hoover is now asking every boy and girl in n America to play pIny fair and divide up with th the hungry youngsters of France and Belgium and Great Britain There isn't enough food in the world to go around if w we are nIe selfish and claim more than our share How can cnn a boy or girl under high high- school chool age ngo realI really help to win the war First join he J Junior nor Red Cross Then keep ep on saying I know Uncle Sam Sara is right and I will pull for him until he wins Believe DeHeve what you say Root for the U. U S. S A A. as you would root foot for your our baseball nine or your basketball five Stand out on the edge edg of the sidewalk sidewalk side side- walk and cheer heer the soldiers as they swing by r Probably the children children to whom horn we weare weare are now talking are better post posted d regardIng regarding regarding re re- re- re garding United States history than are ure some of the people who talk about it They know that our boys now In the tho training camps or on their way to France are getting ready rendy to fight against the oppressions of a u cruel despot des pot just as some seine other American boys once fought at Bunker Hill By the way if you can find a man manor manor or 01 woman who does not understand how the rights of democracy are to tobe tobe tobe be preserved when kings go on the rampage you might loan oan this ignorant person your our school history Mark the pages ages relating to the Boston tea party he lie Liberty bell Lexington Valley Forge and Yorktown S See e If you can find any favorable of the tho pacifists of 1776 |