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Show I DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE I Wc hear much these days about thi irall hitter I speak for the trail bln-er. bln-er. 1 have nothing hut cheer for the trail hitters. They mean e1l and want to do better. But I have more than cheer for the trail blazers. It Is Kreat lo go up against the wlhl-j erness to strike In where no one has igone on before you; to chip the forest j. I trees so tliot those w ho come after you i j may find the way, to face unseen i j perils, to adventure the unknown and the untried, to have 0 heart of cour-' luge In the dark, and a resolute Will I Ithulu declines to respect a barrier. All I this Is ureal It Is the storv of the trail' lit. 17. -r It Is, If possible, greater when the! wilderness he goes up against ts life Itself. There an trails to be biased In human society. Mont of us meanderi the old cow-paths and are satisfied, i iiirn Is type of mind that does not! i 1 w take kindly to a new Idea. We worship wor-ship at the shrine of tradition. We hue gr at respect for a precedent, and .ire (uile satisfied lo let well enough alone. Not so the trail blazer. II.- Is not a lover nf Ihe way the thing has always! been done; but of Ihe Way it never has been done. He Insists that wrongs I are not to be endured, bul redn SSSd He Is something of a progressive, very much of u redlcal. occasionally and In-j concoclast. imp must admit he Is not! nlwayH prudent. Sr -times in smash-' Ing idols he Jostles a real saint; butt R the saint Is alive, he can climb backl to his niche- Sometimes in Clamoring for the new he Is not quite reverent to the old. But this trail blazer is the hope of a belter day. We must have some people peo-ple -uho will plunge on. steered only' by fnith. The promise land is wait- Ing. |