The Jasper news., 1902-02-06
10Th CENTURY YOUNG MAN
AN ADDRESS BY HERBERT Il,
WIILETT.
The World, He Says, Will Demand
a Higher Standard OF Worth
In the Future.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Prof, Herbert l. Willett, :desn OF the
Disciples Divinity school of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, delivered vigorous ad-
dress to young men at tho regular after
noon service in the Y. NJ. c. A. building
yesterday, His subject was 1.-THE Twen-
tieth Century Young Man"
Prof. Willett is man who apparently
will live a number of years before reach.
ing what is popularity known as "middle
age" lie, with President Roosevelt; is
believer in the strenuous life. He be-
ieves that every young man should have
q fixed ambition and that he should
prosecute every energy TO achieve sue
cess. lie emphasized the necessity for
a complete equipment, physically, in
tellectually and morally, for the Twon-
tieth century, he believes, will demand
higher standard Of worth in young
men than has ever been attained. lu
the course OF his address Professor viii
let said:
"The last century was century Of
the discovery Of the young man as u
person really worth while reckoning
with. A man Of 3j years in this day
has experienced more Of life than Ne
thuSaleh did in all OF his years. The
triumphs Of the nineteenth century
wore so close we almost we're incl ned to
the belief that there were no more pro-
Dlems TO be solved and that the erd Of
the world was at hand. But the Twen-
tieth century has prospects and oppor-
tunities be- ond comparison with those
of the Nineteenth.
zone invention Of the early years OF
this century will be practical airship.
The old Frenchman used TO say that
| there were three monsters that were ter
rors TO mankind-the Edragon, belching
! forth smoke; The by dra, monster of
the sea, and the griffin, winged
beast, The Yankee has domestigated
dragon and calls him locomotive. He
has doinestigated the dydra and calls
him steamboat. lie has caught, but
not quite tanned the griffin and calls him
Ia balloon. The Yankee possesses and
utilizes air, fire and water. He will
eventually get the fourth element,
something he has long wanted--the
earth.
81 expect to live to see the time when
man may go from New York to Lon
don in Pullman car. | believe engi-
noering skill will accomplish it. The
bulk of the worlds work is yet to be
done. We are in the midst Of u time ol
tremendous physical value. Athletics
have done much to enttu use in the young
man a large degree of self-restraint. /
would like to see gymnasiums conduct
ed in connection with some churches
The recreation might stir the men to at
tend prayer meeting oftener. 1t seems
marvellous how the sick headache, pre-
venting church attendance, h grown
as a Sabbath day disease.
MUST BE ClhAN hNb AEMf hhAih'
The young manhood of the 20th cen
tury must BE- clean and temperate. On'
Of the best features of the time is thai
business enterprises are becoming alert
to the fact that the very principles o
tho church are necessary to them. The
Young man of the Goth century canno
oe indifferent to the demand for intel
lectuality. The world demands the Fl
, nest fiber and best intellectual acumeI
in young men. The young man mus
have a high aim.
seems to mo that we are witness
ing lesson OF national retrogression on
The other side OF the water. Kipling, il
late poem, complains of il. Wien
man should be at the iront-whether u
; South Africa or Fleet street.-the has n
business ON tho links or the cioque
grounds or at tho theatre. lneihcienc
and 'ack OF thoroughnrss, Kipling says
is doing things rather more or less,
Tho world wants man who has no az
olgies to mako and who does a thin
Without talking about it.
7" "Young men Of this kind are youn
m On who. believe in something. The