Show overcoming SPIRIT OF WAR fi first st thing for boys to do Is to recognize agn ze men as men despite their race or country when this hideous war ar is oer all the nations will mill be filled with fill the spirit ol of late hale for without it hout hate there could be no inar writes david dald starr jordan in dois bois life it is for aou ou bos to tr arv arid and oNer overcome come this spirit to help each man and each other to real ize that men are men wherever they may ay hie or whatever language the ma speak A boy in ili one of oe the continental coun tries now at war nar told me once that he saw sau soldiers of a neighboring country going abal aw a on the train one soldier leaned out of the window put his arm on his mothers mother s shoulder and reached down doun to ekls her the bo was greatly 1 surprised ile he had bad been taught to hate the people of that neighbor coun arv and he thought they were not hu man ile he did not know the loved loed their mothers just as he did ahen he knew tint thit lie he did not want mant to fight them but wanted to make them friends if a nation Is victorious it has at tho the end the same troubles it could have hane had it it had been vanquished war Is a two edged sword vilt hout any arid and it cuts every one that wields it and as bad as the sting of defeat Is the purse of the defeated nation rants ants to fight again to re reenor ene itself arid and the victorious nation wants to light fight again because it feels sure that it Is strong enough to whip an adv bod arid and each of them hates the other without gensu without biasca |