Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-28 | Page 12 | "Hit the Line Hard," Says President to the "American Boy."

L r H l H rT r IHlA AY l j 10 ThI IY t 99 F i what hilt we have a aright right to 10 expect cf C 1 the Ameri American con can boy boj b Is 1 that he Mall turn ou to ba bo o V good American 11 man Now row the are tron that he h wont b be much df 01 t a iLman man iii an he lie la Is n a 1 good gooi gOOI i deal Jent of o It a 0 toy boy or Ha must not ba ie bully bull 1 U 11 or r a 11 weakling a mt 1 1 hari han hann work lI r a 0 He ne must He no must bo to and aImi n d Play hard mard nna anil nd able to toh a and nn hr h r hU lIs own on under tinder all 1111 circumstance amiI ti against all nil comers It Is i only on ont t l conditions that he be will grow gOY In 10 Int t kind hind of American man manOt of whom America Aric I cnn can bo ho 0 really proud I iero are nrc In lire life I I tendencies ll for tor good and for evil ovll and andI succeeding generation tees leOIl ee toma fome each CAl car II I o A Mie ese tendencies t tre and ond ned nor Is It by any means menns always y alas that trw tendencies for Cor cv 1 weakened w awl anil nn those for g good od t l t enoi limit Jut the use last few Cew decades de ades there certainly have been tom some I J notably n tar for good In boy life lite t Tr th great gr growth In tho love of ot athletic J J I sport sp for tor while fraught with I danger If It becomes become and ami un unhealthy healthy has laa beyond all que had bad hadI I nn effect In increased I ne Forty or W tO years ago the tho writer on American morals was sure lIure to de tie deI deIJl I effeminacy and luxury of at atI m I I tunK Americans who were IVere born of 01 rich richI parents p pi The boy who was wae well oft off I thi especially In Inthe the he big eastern cities I t lI d too luxuriously took to billiards I 1 ahIe n Innocent recreation and tei lm shame In his hili Inability to take p n and field sports Nowadays No lays whatever other the j son lIo of ol rich parents rents may ma tend to de Oe deI I vei he II Is at least forced by b the opinion ion of nil alt his hili associates at of his hi own ag ai a ar Gr himself elt well In manly r and to develop Ills hi iii body ond therefore r to t certain a n c I n extent hIS hs In thorough r ugh sports lI orts which call for pluck endurance und anti physical tit c course Ours boys OOS who nho live un tin unI I 4 sit de Uch fortunate conditions that th the haVe hare to In do either a IL good deal of ot c l work or a n deal of what might mig be coiled called natural outdoor play do tic n sl need this athletic development I I Iii Civil wr war the soldiers who c came cameI me the prairie and the backwoods I t and the rugged rUgg l farms where stumps dotted ott the clearings and who ho had N to ride In III their Infancy to tot 1 1 t as soon eoon aa na D they could handle ft n arMi and amid to out whenever they IheI I Ji gL a Do chance were butter bolter fitted for Cor fort Corf t f m in ary work than Ihan any set lOt ot ol o mere I re rel l school 8 hool or college could possibly be Moreover to athletics Ii III bs equally hail had whether their Import Importance since ance Is le magnified oo or minimized Tho The Greeks wore famous athletes and amI as ae long as a their training had hail a al normal l place pineo In their lives It was a II good thing Hut Dut It was a very bad when whon they the k kept pt up their theft ath atit letlo letio while letting tutting stern of nd statesman statesmanship ship sink pink Into disuse Some of tho the you Off renders roeders ro of this book will certainly road tho the famous let letters tere of younger Pliny a Roman Hainan who Tho wrote with what seems see II to us U II u i 4 oj 4 a I ISo So Bo at one time lime tho the Persian kings had hlll to forbid polo because bec soldiers neglected flog neg their proper duties for fur the fa ta emotions of the game gains We cannot expect the best lIt work from soldiers who have haw carrIed curried to an unhealthy extreme the time lorts and pastimes p which would be healthy It Indulged In with mod oration and have hate neglected to learn learnan an Wi thy they should the business of tiller thier profession lon A soldier needs to know how to shoot and take cover and shift for to box or play lay football Thare thore Is ts of ot cour cours course tho the risk rill of ot titus thus mistaking means for far t lr ends Fox Foxhunting Foxhunting hunting Is a sport but one of the most absurd things thing In real wl life to is to note the bated breath with which certain excellent otherwise of ot healthy ml mInds miMe mis misspeak speak of this admirable but not over curiously modern tough In the first firs of the present era ern His IiI cor core with tho the Emperor Tra TraJan Jan Is 18 particularly Interesting and ond not riot the least noteworthy thing In iii It U Is the tone tono of or contempt With which he of the Greek athletic sport Sports treating theta them as II the diversions of ot an unwarlike I ople which It wan safe to encourage e In order linter to ke keep p tho the Greeks tom from turning Into anything formidable Important pastime They tend to It almost as much ot or a 0 fetish an as In the thelast thelast last century the French Franch arid and Ger German German man IOnn nobles made the o of ot the stage when they carried hunting and right between their lines as they the came camu together These writers apparently apparent consider It a n merit In this man that when his hi country was In a 1 pie pl Instead of ot taking arms arnie and hurry hurryIng hurrying ing to the defense of ot the cause rouse he bet be right he should placidly have hae gone about his hll usual sports sparta Of course In reality the chief serious UM use u e of ot fox foxhunting foxhunting hunting Is II to encourage manliness anti and Vigor Igor and to keel keep men hardy so that at need they can show themselves fit At to part In work york or strife strite for tor their na an native tive land When a man luau so far con confuses confuses fuses ends and moans as all to think that foxhunting or polo or football or whatever else the Ue sport may be Is to tob tobe tobe b be Itself taken us as the endi Instead of ot ns as the mere mentis means of ot preparation to du tie work that counts count when the time arises when the Ihl occasion calls why that man to a 0 point which was to tint national life Foxhunt Foxhunting ing Is very good as a It but It Is U about ns as poor a n business ns as can be fol Col followed followed lowed by any man mon of Intelligence Certain thin tain writers writer about It are ore fond of quoting quotIng ing lug the anecdote of ot n a foxhunter who In tho time days daw of tho the English civil war was discovered pursuing his favorite sport just before a great greet buttle battle between the Cavaliers and the tho anti and had better abandon spOrt aport altogether No boy oy can afford to neglect his work and with a 1 boy work as 18 a 0 rule means study stull Of ot course there are occasional occasionally ly Iy brilliant successes In life lite where the theman theman man lias been worthless s as IS n a 1 student when a n boy To take tako these exceptions ns as examples would be as 11 unsafe as ns It would be to advocate blindness because some blind men have hare won undying honor bonor by triumphing over their plural physical cal infirmity anti and accomplishing great grent results In the world I nm am no advocate of at senseless and excessive cramming In Studies but a n boy should hould work und anti should work vork hard at his lessons In ln Inthe the tha first place for tor the sake take ot or what he will vili learn and In tho the next place for lor the stake nake of the effect upon his hili own charac character character ter tee of resolutely settling down to learn It II Shiftlessness slackness indiCter Indifference ence care in studying are almost certain to mean Inability to get gel on In other walks In life lite Ot Of course ns nl a 1 boy grows older it is a it good thing It If he can shape his studies In the direction toward which he has hns a II natu natural natural ral tal bent but ut whether lie Ito 10 can cnn do this thU or not put his whole heart Into them then I do not believe In mischief doing In school hours or In the kind of ot animal spirits that results In making bad scholars I holar and I believe bellevo that those thos boys bos who take part In rough hard hant piny play outside of at school will not net find Ind any need or horseplay lay In school While they study they should study just as ns hard hardas harda as al a they thy play football In a n match game gamet It H t Is wille to obey the homely old adage Work Vork while you ou work play while you OU OUpia play playA pia A boy needs MOlls both physical anti amt moral Neither can take the tho place of I Ithe the other When boys OOS become men they will viii find out that there are arc some sol aol soldiers diers very vel brave In the field who have proved timid und and worthless as al politicians clans and some politicians who show an oil entire readiness to take chances antI and assume responsibilities In civil affairs hot but who lack tho the fighting lighting edge when op to physical ph danger In each case anti and politicians alike there Is but half a II virtue The posses possession sion of ot the courage of the soldier does not excuse the lack of courage In the statesman and oven even less leas does docs the pos poe possession session of ot the courage of the tho statesman shrinking on the field of battle Now ow thin this Is la nil all just as true Irue of 01 boys bOY A coward who will take a n blow without returning It Is a creature but after atter all alii he Is hardly as contempt contemN contemptible ible a as the boy who dares dareR not stand up for tor what he lie deems right against the Misers litters of ot his companions who are them wrong RIdicule Is one of ot otI the he I weapons of ot weakness and It Is sometimes incomprehensible how Good and brave brae boys will be Influenced for tor or evil by the jeers of ot associates who have no one quality that calls for tor re rep reo s p ct but who affect to laugh at nt the thery very cry ry traits which ought to be ly If y tho the cause for Cor pride There Is no need to be a n prig Theta Is 19 s no qa o need for lor a n boy to preach about hIs hla hit own inn good goM conduct and Virtue It If ho hod d loon docs he will make himself offensive and ridiculous hut there Ii Is urgent need nee that lint he hp should practise practice decency that ho he ic should be lie clean cleon and straight honest hone t tand and md truthful gentle and tender as 01 well wellis as is brave br le If ii ho lie can ron once get a proper prop r understanding of ot things he will have a n aar afur tar fur ar more hearty contempt for Cor the tho boy who rho has hils begun a course of ot feeble dill die or who Is untruthful or moon mean or ir dishonest or cruel than this boy bay bayL bo bon L n f n t L L 1 J 1 anti his fellow tellow can cnn possibly In return feel for The Tho very fact that the boy should bo manly and able to 10 hold nold his own that he ho should be to submit to bullying without Instant retaliation should In III return moke him hint abhor any form of bullying cruelty or brutality There are two t delightful books book Thomas rho mas Hughes Tom Porn Brown Drown at nug Rug by and Story of a n Bud Bad flay Boy Do which I 1 hope hOlle overy every boy Mill still rends and ond I think American boys bos will always feel more moro In sympathy with hn Mil h tm 10 t In I I It none of 01 the tagging fagging anti tho the which goes got with tagging fagging tho account of ot which and the acceptance of which always 8 puzzles an American admirer of Tom Drown Brown There Thero Is tho the same contrast between two stories of at One called Captains Courageous s describes in lii tho the liveliest way just JURt what a n boy 00 should b be and do The hero ho Is lIln ed In the thu beginning as nR the spoiled p overIndulged child of wealthy parents of a n typo which we ve e do sometimes unfortunately see mice and than Ihan which there exist few tow mInI nn the thA film IA n D u u up p t t IH ili I i iw t 1 K I i F 1 f C CI CI I S I I 2 f i 3 i I IJ J i 1 r r r rt rI rt rI rf I t t I i 1 4 I Ii f i c jt lit S SEtt Ett lJ C I 1 a r a at t H H A BUCKING From President hook Book on Ranch Life t 1 tt tl t t t t I t ji 11 il I I 1 I t t u t ti t f T of the tho brood broad earth This boy Is II after afterward I ward thrown on his own mid wholesome surroundings and ana nn In Is forced force to work hard boys bos and men who are real rell boys bos and rent men doing real camel work The effect Is II Invaluable Un on the theother other oilier hand ham If It I onu ono wishes to find types i of boys to be lit avoided with utter litter dislike one on will find them in Ut another story ator ol o 0 1 11 pI n I trailed called I Stalk Co a II story which ought liver aver to have hove b beets en writ written written ten fur for or there U Is hardly n a form of meanness which It Joes doell t seem to ex ox extol tol ci or of or school which It does not seem to applaud n p nud lushes Bullies do not nol make brave men maca and boys boy or ormen men of foul life cannot become good tId citizens good gOOl Americans Americano until they change und even een after atter the th Ih change scars will be lM left on their sotuta TIme hl boy ho can belt best become ti n good man manby manby by br being a 1 good boy not u It boy but just a plain Rood good boy I fo 10 o slot not mean meal that thai he ho must mUll love lovo only negative I 1 mean meen he lie mu the virtue alto also Good l ft the largest t sense enic should tev r rIs rIs rIs Is tine straightforward cl n II bras anti and manly The Time best boys boy r know IM beet beel men I know are good at thir stud leg or their heir business bUll MS fearless aid arri stalwart hated and feared by all t tnt Lo ot otIs t Is wicked anti and depraved e nf lit submitting to wrongdoing amid ami iy incapable of ot Blight aught but tender to II the weak and helpless A h I ed ad boy hould feel eel hearty hurly con to mot for forthe forthe forthe the coward anti and even ann more mOIe hearty I for Cor the boy who bullies t HM hA e eor or small boys bo or tortures torture One prime reason resson res son for tor abhorring cr e c nv ards Is Ip because ever good boy bo shoo d ti dhave I have It In him hint to thrash the able boy as an the need arts arises Of Ot course the effect that a R thorough thoroughly ly Iy manly thoroughly straight and up upright upright right boy bo can cun have upon uP n tho the compan companions com an anIons ions of ot his own age and nn upon th the who are younger ID I If It Ithe he is no thoroughly manly then th th the will II not respect him end and his hie good iu U will count for Cor but little while of ot course If It he lie Is mean cruel or om wicked then his physical anti and forte Cameo of ot mind merely make him so o much the themo mo molo e objectionable a member of or soci society ety ely lIe He cannot do good work If ut H Hnot l I Inot not strong and do g not try tr hll Whole heart henrt antI and soul Roul to count In say contest and lute hiM strength will be le a 1 ours curse to himself elf and to every overy over one ODe else flae If It he ho does not have thorough command over oer himself and stud over his hll own on evil evI ram pas passions antI It If he ho does not nol use hie huis strength on the side aide of ot decency justice and fair Calr dealing In short In life lICe ns sue In a n football game saml the principle to 10 follow Is II Hit flit tIme the line hArd dont foul Coul and dont Ilont shirk but hit the line hard