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Show ARE YOU WORTH fnGHTINGFOR? jtef . ' i tiMf-v - . Sid says, la taWrebruary American Magaslne. ? ' 'There la something l,want to say abouVthls Var. Fernape you will think It' a queer twist to the thing Anyhow. r here it is: '"Theoiher.dayl heard a discouraging discour-aging report of an able 'man In Chicago 'who for yeara was a bad drinker. Two years ago, he quit absolutely. ab-solutely. For two years he has not taken a drop. He has .been cieanl'njf himself up morally, intellectually," and' physically. I don't know htm personally, and with others have rejoiced re-joiced In his Improvement. It has been an Inspiration Just to look at him, "Just to hear about the fight be was making and winning. "But now comes bad news. Ho has lost the fight. He has gone back to' drink. He has given up the struggle. VWhen I' heard this I felt almost as bad as I did when I heard the news about the Germans beaming the Italians. Ital-ians. Somehow, it made me consider the war forces of evil over the. forces of good. Somehow, It made me'.con-sldor me'.con-sldor It with more gloo'm. Somehow, Some-how, it msde me think 'What Is the use of the soldiers fighting and dying over there if the fellows back home aren't going to flgh,t, .toof . "AH 'of which brings me straight to he point 'rjever in your life has It been sb laaoartaat as it is new' that you,.,,' an indlvldaal, sheatd aall ii awa 4 1 lire up to the highest standards that you can maintain. These are nerve-racking nerve-racking days.) Clyllisatloln seems to bet shaking all around ur. It we lose faith la, ourselves nnd In the racewe are Indeed lost.- Ewry time we see ,a man doing his Individual Job up to the top .notch of efficiency, we can have Just that much more, confidence-In tha.worth-whlleness of the big straggle. Every time we see a man surrender to the "forces that wreck an Individual we suffer a loss of Just that much confidence. aid.fsUa,toa s)Bi aaw lnhee early dajraef 11$ yjaar acts are 'or nsaJsajs)Uacei:.'than they ever were before, , . "The War Is like a great fire. The soldiers varehe firemen, aad the safety at the resLaf us Is la. their hands." Aftorrisktog toalr lives tor us, what are'theea seMler-f Iremea going; go-ing; to lad, that they have saved valuables' or JaakT ' Thlak about thla When yet took la the mirror." |