The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-23

public instruction and the president OF
tho university.
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day; nor yet for those others who al
ways profess that they would like to
take action. If only the conditions of
life were not what they actually are:
Il pay all homage to intellect, and
to elaborate and specialized traini~
of the intellect; and yet ! know
shall have the assent OF all of you
present when | add that more impor-
tant still are the commonplace, every
day qualities and virtues.
"Such ordinary, every day qualities
include the will and the power to work
to fight at need, and to have plenty of
healthy children. There are a few
people in every country so born that
they can lead lives of leisure. These
fill a useful function IL they make ii
evident that leisure does not mean
idleness. But the average man must
earn his own livelihood He should
be trained to do so, and he should be
trained to feel that he occupies a
contemplate position IL he does not
do so; that he is not an object of en-
Wy II he Is idle at whichever end OF
the social scale he stands, but an OBJ
jcct of contempt, an object of derision.
I'm the next place. the good man
should be both strong and bravo
man; that Is. he should be able TO
fight he should be able to serve his
country as soldier II the need arises.
There are well-meaning philosophers
who declaim against the unrighteous-
ness of war. They are right only II
they lay all their emphasis upon the
urrighteousness. War Is dreadful
thing. and unjust war is a crime
against humanity. But IL is such
crime because il is unjust not be-
cause II is war. The choice must ever
be i'm favor of righteousness. and this
whether the alternative be peace or
whether the alternative be war; The
1uestion must not be merely. Is there
20 be peace or war? The question
muse be. Is the right to prevail? Are
he great laws of righteousness once
from a strong and virile people must
e. Yes whatever the cost.
FINALLY, even more important than
bility to work. even more important
han ability to fight at need, Is II to
remember that the chief of blessings
FOR any nation is that IL shall leave
is seed to inherit the land. Ii was
The crown Of blessings I'm Biblican
times: and ii is the crown OF bless
ings now. The greatest of all curses
is the curse of sterility, and the sew
crest of all condemnations should be
hat visited upon willful sterility. The
first essential in any civilized is that
the man and the woman shall be IA
ther and mother of healthy children
80 that the race shall increase ana
not decrease. If this is not so, III
through no fault OF the society there
is failure to increase, IL Is great
misfortune. If the failure is due to
deliberate and willful fault then II
is not merely a misfortune, II Is one
of those crimes of ease and self-in-
dulgence, OF shrinking from pain ana
effort and risk. which in the long run
Nature Furnishes more heavily than
anv other. II we of the great repup-
lies. II we, the free people VINO claim
20 have emancipated ourselves from
he thraldom of wrong and error
hiring down on our heads the curse
that comes upon the willfully barren
then II will be an idle waste OF
breath TO prattle of our achievements
20 boast OF all that we have done NO
refinement of life, no delicacy OF taste
no material progress no sordid heap-
| ing up of riches. no sensuous ueVeiop-
mont of art and literature, can in any
way compensate for the loss or the
ereat fundamental virtues; anA oil
these great fundemantal virtues, the
greatest IL the races power to per-
petuate the race.
"In short the good citizen in re-
public must realize that he ought 10
possess two sets of qualities, and that
neither avails without the other. lie
must have those qualities which make
for eficiency: and he must also nave
those qualities which direct the EN-
cheney into channels for the public
good. He is useless IL he Is inefncisn''
There Is nothing to be done with that
type OF citizen of whom all that can
be said Is that he is harmless Vir-
tue which Is dependent upon slug
| cish circulation Is not impressive
There ls little place in active life for
tho ,,pid GOOD man. The man who
is saved by weakness from ROBUST