Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-20

and ask questions: don't be a clam,
don't treat your head as Though 1t
were bowl of mush, take good look,
wonder what is happening, why It hap
pened. and. If you don't know. ask
someone. Ask. someone, and II you
dent find cut, throw a Fit till you do
find out, for this is fit the first
Fit the Second.-In order TO hit the
best lick. to deliver the strongest
punch, a man must be physically fit.
Now by being physically fit do not
mean merely a matter Of muscle. In
fact muscle plays so small a part in
the game that / am going to leave II
out altogether. But do mean that
in order to be a man you must take
care Of this wonderful. marvellous livr
ing machine that God has given to us.
Taking care Of this machine doesn't
mean merely putting fuel into 1t three
times a day. nor does 1t mean once In
couple Of years getting out on q
track and straining ones insides out
trying to make 100 yards in 10 flat
Thoke are good enough in their place,
but itNmeans d lot more than that. It
means keeping your body clean. No
man can do the work laid out for him.
In this world who pollutes his body.
If you are putting into your body or
into your lives. anything that is, and
you know It is polluting your body
and ycur life. cut it out / tell you,
young men. there is nothing to 1t; you
gain nothing; you will ruin your body.
you will damn your soul, you will
wreck ycuE life There are no two
ways about this; the end is in sight
the day ySu begin. You will meet
the questions of selfindulgence as
they come upon you. No one can help
you II you will not helD yourself, NO
one can steer the boat that is entrust-
ed to you. the wheel Of which you are
assuming today. II is not a nice thing
to talk about, but I cannot see the host
of boys and young men that pass be-
fore me every day., boys and men who
have ruined their lives. who have shat
tered their chances chances as good.
as. yours today without holding up a
warning hand when have the chance
Young men, it is nothing smart, moth.
ing frnny. nothing romantic, nothing
but Just plain rotten, this chasing
around where you know, the prostitute
plies her rotten trade. Il means dis.
ease, disease of body ano of soul. dis
ease which God himself cannot keep
you from, disease which no doctor
can cure, disease which you ami you
alone can prevent, disease which will
kill you and your children. It means
losing your punch, it means a licking
for you. a down and out in the fight
for life 1t means this and nothing
else. So, the first time that a man
or boy suggests that you do that which
you know will ruin and not better your
wonderful youthful, God given body
throw fit, for this is fit the second
In order to hit the best lick, a man
must be economically fit. That is, ne
must. in this fight before him, be pre-
pared to earn living. BY this / do
not mean merely that he must be able
to. earn money. That is so snail a
part Of it that am not going 10 speak
OF it But / say that a boy or man
must know how to earn z living. The
man who merely earns money is of
little use to the state and to
the community in which he lives, but
the man who earns his living is the
best man OF the state, the most valua-
Bile member that society knows. Re-
member. the only thing, after all, that
the world can give the best man in it
Is living. To earn a living. there
fore, you must earn what only the
best may receive, This is not got
by earning merely what will keep you
alive. will fill and clothr YOUR body
and keep a roof over your head. 1t
means that as a member o. this coun-
try OF ours you must be worthy to live
therein and to enjoy it's protection. to
merit its gifts to you. to repay what
you have received during years when
you were of no use to It And this
means that you must bear its burdens,
must live so that it will be better for
your living in 1t, that men will be glad
you belong to the country. And how
shall this He accomplished? As usual,
the rule is simple, very simple. 1t is
bound up in the word honesty" Hon.