The Washington times., 1917-10-23
No NapOleOnic Chess Player on
An Air Cushion
zangwips Idea Is False-Why Chess Playing
Stunts GENIUS


he future he says:
''The Napoleon of the future will be an epileptic
chess player carried about the field of battle air
cushion"
In this condensed picturesque fashion Mr. Zangwn
seenousy number of mistaken ideas He thinks
hat the game of is like the game of chess and that
hs future world conqueror will be great chess player,
Using pawns and the world as his chess board
BE observes the curious and interesting historical fact
hat Of the worlds great conquerors many including the
greatest Napolean and Alexander, afflicted with
hat mysterious disease epilepsy He concludes that the
great general of the future will probably be confirmed
1pleptic
The ability of fighting today resides largely of
course in the brain. The generals MUSCLES longer
count fighting factor His battles lost inside Of
his SKULL Mr. Zangw concludes that the future great
general will have mind developed to abnormal extent
queror abnormal creature giant brain perched on
miserable wasted body feeble and delicate that it must
be carried about the field of battle an air cushion to pre-
vent shocks.
The quotation from Zangw which we print above
tains only twenty words Rarely have many
many fundamental yet plausible been crowded into
so little space.
The Napoleon of the future the great conqueror will
NOT be chess player The real Napoleon whom know
had love for chess other waste Of time other
form of self indulgence
who wants to embody real accomplishment In the story OF
his life
KINDS OF RULES AND ALL KINDS OF FORE
ORDAINED MPossIB1ITIEs
The who makes the worlds great success will not
be bound by rules The great of the world great be-
cause they refuse to ADMIT impossbiities.
. The who plays chess has knights, and these
knights he only send two in direction and
square in another square In direction and
two squares in another His two bishops only move
disgonay the board the white and on
the black His castles lumber along straight lines His
king be touched taken and the game ends when the
king in fatal danger The queen in the dull game call
chess, do almost anything
But Napoleon really great man. and the game of
life that ne played very different from the chess game
When the king in hopeless danger Napoleons game
had just begun Others before him had looked upon kings
the board life the chess player looks upon the wooden
or ivory king before him.
But to Napoleon kings pawns to be moved around
and made ridiculous When he felt like it, he made pawns
into kings
Napoleon's game deprived the queen of all power-she
was less than pawn HIS game sent the bishops hopping
back and FORTH diagonay at right angles he fit
BE created knights to his hearts content and he taught
them to move as he wanted.
Napoleon was great because there was nothing of the
chess player about him. He did not admit of regular fore
moves on the chess board or on the board Of life
HE REFUSED TO CONSIDER ANYTHING IMPOSSIBLE
UNTIL HE HAD TRIED 1T. He tells US himself that he
deserved credit for crossing the Alps not that he
pshed difficult feat but because he refused believe those
who declared the feat impossible
If anybody said Check to Napoleon he kicked over
the chess board and began game of his ownthat
what surprised the poor dull old Austrian generals Italy
No; the real great man is chess player he has no
chess players mind And do you Mr. Reader time
ntchess you have any idea Of being WORTH WHILE in
big or little way
The Napoleon OF the future Will be no epeptic That
terrible disease has afflicted many of the nobles nteects
and is undoubtedly disease brought on least ntensi
fed by great intellectual activity and lack of coordination
between the mental and physical operations of the body But
great have been great because of that terrible
disease but in spite of it. Science will conquer that trouble
has conquered Others and the scientist to do this work
will be, himself, one of the worlds great men.
The Napoleon of the future will be no huge Drained
dwarf, with feeble body carried on an air cushion.
It is true that many great of today relatively
small in body The gigantic muscle thick legs broad shoul
of
to do with modern achievement
But is also true that today always the healthy mind
lives in healthy body and lives ON healthy body.
As well expect to find the most perfect fruit on with
ered half dead tree to find the most able brain in with
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