The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-07
Tlis Matter Of Impulse.

You AVE heard that the centaur.
half man and half beast, is a myth. J
don't think that 1t is. We are lucky II
we are only half horse. To be one-half
half beast. The theologues used to
talk about total depravity.' l can.
not deny that belief too strongly. Mar
has not one bad quality, blu all mus
Shall the horse or the man control?
1t makes a good deal of difference
whether the horse goes where the man
wants him to or the man goes where
the horse wants the man to go. 1t
makes a. great deal of difference
whether the ship is in the water OF
the water is in the ship. Napoleon.
with all of his great qualities. was
one of the greatest tragedies of the
world. and it is because he was never
under control. He cared not a snap
for the word OF the parents, or the
public opinion of Europe. Many peo-
pie say that Theodore Roosevelt is Inn
pulsive. l have known him Intimately
say that he has strong impulses. but
he is not governed by them. But he
thinks like lightning, SO that people
enormously conclude that he is i'm
" rudders.
Journalism is another field in which
"A college man is valued, not for what
he knows. but for what he can do with
MIdl 1T Know :. III newspaper OlIlCeS
q new man Is sent out to write about
something that Is not important. and
he comes in with a column or so.
which is cut down to a few lines. It
Us SO in the Outlook office. Every week
we have, in the sanctum a %consulta-
lion of the members OF the staff as to
what the paper shall say editorially
IN the next issue. 1t is always the
in too much. They bring in pages
more than enough to fill several Is.
sues. I have to ask each man to boil
down. Boil down is the constant re-
Quest made at each meeting. Can't you
cut that down to a pager Can't you
cut that column down to u paragraph?
IS what we have to say at every meet
1ng. Every member of the editorial
staff writes too much. and has to cut
'Mr. Crothers. in his charming, es.
says, said there are a great many mer
IN America who do not think, because
they haven't the necessary convent,
for thinking that you are in College
No doctor learns much about disease
In college: no minister learns mucn
about how to preach. But they may
learn how to think. 4 democracy
ignorant classes will take almost any
leader that offers. You men who are
trained to think realize your duties
OF leadership. Be a steam engine. har-
HosSSe AZ ~ t4ulppeu, anu tntn
take up some afr the. problems all
Lee and Lincoln.
Then have loyalty to your ideals.
Politicians hardly ever see beyond the
next election, and never beyond the
next presidential election. Statesmen
work toward the tar-off, divine event.
Thus Bismarck used all sorts of men
and every occasion to bring about HIS
great purpose-the unifcation OF Ger.
many. Thus Gladstone saw feudal
England. n he set himself the task
of understanding democracy, and he
made feudal England democratic. The
kind of devotion to your ideal which
IS necessary is to be willing to suffer.
this country have glorious!y typihed
that devotion to an ideal. One was
Abraham Lincoln and the other was
General Robert e. Lee. Did Lincoln
fall because he was assassinated? Did
Lee fail because he surrendered his
sword to Grant? No. No man has
failed whose memory Is honored and
Tevered through the ages. Both be-
4leVed in the Justice of his cause with
a heart so fully consecrated that each
was willing to risk all hazards. Did
they fail? He that will be greatest
among you. let him be the eryan OF
ALL"