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Show KM Ml YOl'XO. Said Confucius: "The great man is he who does not lose his child heart." True, and let us add, "The happy man is he who does not lose his child heart." It is a great gift to he able to remain young even when the body is old to lie fired with the ambition of youth; to dream the dreams of youth; to bask in the happiness of youth, and to look forward into the future with happy confidence even as does youth. Contentment is essential in order to retain our youth of mind, and contentment con-tentment is not possible unless we are satisfied with what we are doing. Not, of course, a stagnent contentment, content-ment, for stagnation spells nothing but discontent and death, but a contentment con-tentment with reasonable progress, buoyed up with high hopes for future fu-ture attainment. To keep youth we must always be fired with some worthy ambition to which our minds and hearts are set. It is not necessary that we aim for the Presidential chair or the Chief Justice's seat, but rather that we have in our minds a very clear definition defi-nition between right and wrong, and that we strive to make our judgment conform to 'our conscience. There is a great ambition in itself the greatest great-est of all ambitions, and this eternal struggle; this everlasting desire to work an improvement brings with it youth keeps you young in spirit, for we are ever renewing ourselves. Old age is not defeat. There is no defeat in life save from within; unless un-less we. are beaten there, we are bound to win. We never grow old unless we are old in spirit. As Henry Van Dyke has it, "Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul." Let us look forward, rising triumphantly triumph-antly on our errors and keeping ever the soul of youth. Keep young and cheat old age. "What makes some people so sour these days?" writes a correspondent. Why, my dear sir, are you not aware that while it is possible to make one's own vinegar, it is impossible in these days to overcome the present shortage short-age of sugar? Herein may lie the solution. What a world this is for kicking. Even the umpires.iOf the World's series ser-ies demanded extra pay. It would appear. "s though a thousand dollars was sufficient for eight games, but their kick netted them $250 extra. Everybody's doing it. Now comes the "super-hen" am the super egg. According to pred:. tions hens will lay twice as many and twice in size. Then up pops the pessimist: pes-simist: "Bet the price will be twice the size, too." You can't cheer some people, can you? The world over, the Reds are losing los-ing their grip. Evil can never triumph tri-umph for long. In the end the good and noble always win out. Storm clouds may obscure the sun for a while, but the sun is tliere Just the same. |