Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-07

WHAT pit1ab Die apologies OF real men
and women are found among the idle
classes! These people have scarcely
any initiative and practically no ex-
ecutive ability, and their minds are
fiably from lack of exercise. A man
can no more get power from an idle
life than an athletic can get physical
strength by sitting In a gymnasium
and looking at the apparatus.
How little Harry Thaw's parents
realized the cruelty of bringing their
son up in idleness, without a trade or
profession, or any noble motive in
life.
One would think parents would
learn wisdom from the tens of thou
sands of lessons which ruined lives
have taught; that there Is no getting
around Gods fiat, no evading the
law, that work, exercise of faculty,
self-effort are the only things that
will develop a real man.
There are but very few men with
character stalwart enough to endure
continuous idleness.
There is something about the actual
making of ones way In the world,
of burning behind one all bridges
which others have built, throwing
away all crutches and refusing to
lean, to be boosted. refusing all as
sistance and standing erect upon ones
own feet, thinking his own thoughts,
fighting his own battles, bringing out
his own latent possibilities by actual
exercise, bringing into action every
bit of ones inventiveness, resource
fqlness, ingenuity and originality,
tact, that makes man strong, Wig
orous and stalwart, which indicates
that this is the normal life of a man,
the only life which can develop the
true man.
We hear a great deal about indis-
criminate giving making paupers, but
what shall we say about the giving
of fortunes to youths who have never
been taught that they should give
anything in return for all they re-
ceive?
What are the chances of growth in
character, in sturdy manhood, for
the boy who knows that a fortune Is
waiting for him when he is twenty
one, and who is told every day that
his father is rich and that he is a fool
to work; that he should just make a
business 81 having good time?
What are the chances of his develop
ing rugged, sturdy independence, re-
sourcefulness, originality, inventive
ness, and all the other qualities that
make for vigorous manhood? 1t is
cruel, little less than criminal, to
leave vast fortunes to youth without
stamina of character, a superb, prac-
tical training, or the experience or
wisdom to use them wisely.
No man Is so rich, no matter how
honestly he got his money, as TO be
able to confer immunity from work
upon his offspring. The very nature
of things, the eternal law of the uni
verse has made 1t forever impossible
for you to transfer the stamina, the
vigorous manhood, the stability, the
character, everything that is of real
value which you have gained in your
struggle to get on in the world, to
your son or daughter. Your offspring
owes a debt to civilization which
goes back of the parent. 1t is a debt
which can only be wiped out by the
individual. 1t cannot be discharged
by proxy. Personal effort is the con-
dition of the child's development. II
is the inevitable price of manhood.
No, there are some things You rich
fathers cannot do for your boy. There
is a law of nature which prohibits IT,
an omnipotent principle which pro-
tests against 1t.
If a phrenologist should examine
the heads of the idle. grown-up sons
of rich men. he would find very