The Washington herald., 1916-01-15
"GAME TO THE CORE. "
By oRIsON SWEET MARDEN

He Is game to the very core" Thess
are the words In which a prominent
business man recently described the
courage, the grit, the general character
Oh young man in his employ. This
man meant that his employee would
undertake. without question or demurrer
whatever was given him to do, and that
no matter what obstacles or setbacks he
might encounter he would never give IL
up until he had carried 1t to a complete
nnish- He meant that this young man
had something more than pluck; that
ne had the clear grit and nerve to take
a message to Garcia wherever he might
be, without asking any question or
waiting for instructions. He meant that
II wouldn't matter how long 1t took, Of
what difficulties were in the way, he
would find General Garcia and deliver the
message to him.
The man who Is game to the core will
win out In life no matter what accident,
or misfortunes may befall him on the
way thousands Of young men In the
European countries to-day are showing
that they are game to the core in the
high quality Of courage they are display
ing In their misfortunes. Blinded, mutt
lated, crippled, disfigured for life, shorn
OF the strength of buoyant manhood,
these men-far more heroic now than in
the onrush OF bloody war are brayeIy
taking up the. battle of life where they
left on before their cruel misfortunes
fell upon them.
But they are game to the core" !"
cheerful In spite OF their awful handi-
caps, glad and thankful to take up any
sort OF work their altered condition win
permit them to do. And they will win
out Many of them will succeed In doing
perhaps greater things than they would
dPr
fortune which seemed to end their
career
Blindness could not keep Milton from
singing his immortal Paradise Lost. -
Nor could 1t keep Fawcett from be-
coming Postmaster-generaI of England.
Deafness could not crush the music oui
of Beethoven's soul. Although he could
not hear those marvellous harmonies and
symphonies with his material ear his soul
sensed music which would ravish angels
| Beethoven did his best work after he
was so deaf that he could not hear !
note, u,
More heavily handicapped than any
of these, young women not only blind
and deaf, but also dumb has made a
new record for men and women for all
time to come: Graduate of Redclirs
college, lecturer. writer philosopher OF
the cheerful Helen Keller, game to the
core mas esta pushed precedent that
should give courage and hope to every
young man or woman however crueIIy
Handicapped.
The reason these people and thousands
OF others suffering from some defect OF
blemish have succeeded In doing the
seemingly impossible" is because they
Were turned in on themselves and forced
to seek within the help which most of US
seek only without.
Whatever has been done in the worlds
history can be done again through the
right operation of the same laws and
forces. No matter what obstacles oppose
Us we can be men and women of power
IL we win. The moment one grasps the
fact thai theresfs Is within him an i'm.
mortal force which can lift him above
the limitations of the body he has come
into possession of limitIess resources
II he .cultiyates and uses his divine powe,
nothing On earth can hold him down
The soul. the spirit of man. cannot b,
controlled by his body.
Some of the sublimest souls that have
\ ever lived. were housed in deformed
mutilated cabins. but they were no les,
divine, They called on the divine powel
4 within, which rushed to theiri aid ant
lifted them above their physical limita
ton. They were game to the core. ant
they won out.
tcopgrsht is,Al