The Forrest City times., 1910-04-29
FORREST CITY, ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON ApRII 2o 1o1o

vengeance of Charlemagne when the lords Of the Frankish host were stricken at Roncesvalles.
 Need of Individual Character Let those who have. keep. let those who have not. strive to attain a high standard of cultivation and scholar. | ship. Yet let us remember tEat fbesa stand second to certain other things There Is need of a sound body. and even more need of q sound mind. Rut above mind and abo9a haay stands character the sum Of those qualities which We mean when We speak of mans force and courage. Of his good 1 faith and sense of honor believe in exercise of the body. always provided 1 that We keep in mind that physical l development is means and not an ] end believe, of course. in giving to 1 all the people a good education But the education must contain much be l sides b6oklearniHg in order to be l really good We must exer remember that no keenness and suhtleasss of intellect, no polish. no cIevcrness in ] any way make up for the lack of great sqlIa qualitics-se -seIf=restraint. self-mas- i terf5 common sense tHe= =FoW6r of ac- cepting individual responsibility and yet, of acting in conjunction with others Courage and resolution; these are the qualities which mark a mas terful people Without them 10 peo- pie can control itself or save itself from being controlled from the out. side. speak 10 a brilliant assemblage; l speak in a great university which represents the flower of the highest intellectual developments; pay all homage to intellect, and to elaborate and specialized training of the intel feet; and yet l know shall have the assent of all you present when l add that more important still are the com monplace, everyday qualities and vir- tues
 The Evils of Sterility.
 In the next place the good man i should be both a strong and q brave man; that is. he should be able to fight, he should be able to serve his country as a soldier if the need arises There are well-meaning philosophers who declaim against the unrighteous- ress of war They are right. only they lay all their emphasis upon the unrighteousness War is a dreadful thing, and unjust; war Is crime against humanity. But it is such crime because 1t is unjust. not because it is war. The choice must ever be in favor of righteousness, and this | whether the alternative be peace or whether the alternative be war The question must not be merely, is there to be peace or war? The question must be, is the right to prevail? Are the great laws of righteousness once more to be fulfilled? And the answer from a strong and virile people must be. Yes whatever the cost Every honorable effort should always be made by the individual in private life to keep out of a brawl to keep out of trouble. but no self-respecting indi- yidual, no selfrespecting nation. can or ought to submit to wrong
 
 ability 10 work, even moro important than ability to fight at need. is it to i remember that the chief of blessings l for any nation is that it shall leave its | seed to inherit the land It was the l crown of blessings in Biblical times, and II Is the crown of blessings now 1 The greatest of all curses is the curse | ~.f r,t~ I,., NP oil condemnations should be that visited upon wlful sterility The first es- sential in any civilization is that the man and the woman shall be father and mother of healthy children. so that the race shall increase and not decrease. If this Is not so. if through no fault of society there is failure to increase. it is great misfortune If the failure is due to deliberate and wilful fault, then 1t is not merely a l misfortune 1t is one of those crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of shrink ing from pain and effort and risk. 1 which in the long run nature punishes more heavily than any other
 Idle Achievements.
 If we of the great republics, If we, the free people who claim to have emancipates ourselves from the thral- dom of wrong and error. bring down on our heads the curse that comes upon the wllfully barren. then fl will l be an idle waste of breath 10 prattle of our achievements, to boast of all 1 that we have done No refinement of 1 life. no delicacy of taste. no material progress. no sordid heaping up of riches. no sensuous development of art and literature. can fin any way com pensate for the loss of the great fundamental virtues; and of the great fundamental virtues. the greatest is the races power to perpetuale the race
 But if a mans efficiency is not gui ded and regulated by moral sense, then the more efficient he is the worse he is. the more dangerous to the body