South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-06-18

+ loyalty and devotion 10 his mother
/ lifted him up
From high TO higher.
Till on freedom browning
slope
Became the pillar of the peo-
The center OF the world desire
So, standing. as YOU are today
on the threshold OF life. turn your
I faces first toward the past-remind
/ yourselves of the love. the sacri-
fee, the devotion and the wishes OF
your fathers and mothers.
II.-KNOW THNSEIF.
The vision OF Solomon having
within. Ceramics said. Make il a
business 70 know myself which is
the most difficult lesson i'm this
world" And Pope. All our
knowledge is ourself 20 know" Just
where the precept know thyself,
originated we know not. Ii was i'm
scribed on the temple Of Apollo at
Memphis. Sometimes it has been
ascribed 10 Apollo. sometimes 20
Chila and Plato. but most frequent
Is 10 Thales. one OF Greece's wise
men. But its commences and :ts
imputation Of authorship TO some
great men Of antiquity is but proof
Of its Importance.
Solomon looked within and that
look revealed his owr littleuess. He
said. Behold. I am but as little
child know not how to go out nor
70 come in"
The look within changed this
young mans pride 20 humility.
"A pride there is Of rank-a pride
of birth
A pride of learning and a pride Of
purse,
a London pride-Ca pride of
YOUTH.
In short. there be on earth
A host Of prides. some better. and
some worse"
We have to do with only the
pride OF youth The peril Of youth
at this point is that il discovers an
old truth and believes that il is en-
tirely new 20 the world. IL obtains
for itself a new vision Of things and.
believing that. the vista has never
looks with disdain upon the lower
planes occupied by its seniors.
There is not parent present that
does not understand what ] mean.
How often the boy comes home with
a joke that we heard 70 years ago
and is insulted because it is not new
TO us How frequently does the par
ent and teacher engage i'm contro-
versy with hot youth. which seeks
TO defend some theory long thrown
into discard. Or. again. find him
self compelled 10 defend some sa-
cred institution or ancient truth
against the iconclastic hands Of ado
lescence.
Yourself as You Really Are.
While We would not take away
the JOY that comes for the first time
TO youth upon newly discovered
truth no. withhold from them the
right 20 challenge things already es-
tablished. yet the warning needs TO
be held out against the reputation
of those life principles which are alb
solutely essential To the building of
life That there are some things
that are closed That we have no
time for experiments I'm the bust
ness Of living That We only have
one life 10 live and if wrongly lived
il must at last be retraced i'm tears.
The most important virtue i'm
youth is humility II is not 10 think
more highly of himself than ne
ought TO think a story a few years
ago went through the papers about
a black man travelling on one Of the
sound steamers from New York 70
Boston and found there was no more
place for him in staterooms. up
stairs or down-no chance 10 get
comfortably through the night than
IL he had been a yellow dog IL was
a wild night and getting dark.
When one of the officers of the
steamer discovered this man trying
10 make the best of il in as snug
a corner as he could find. pitied his
fOrlorn condition and decided he
would try 10 help him. He noticed
ne was not very black. so hit on a
plan for giving him stateroom.
There would be no trouble about
getting a stateroom for an Indian
II he looked as we'll as this Negro.
Tie said 10 himself, III run him in
as an Indian He went up 10 the
man and said: You are an Indian.
aren't yOu?" Douglass (for IL was
Fred DouglasS). saw in an instant
what the man was after and said:
NO. I'm niger, and curled him
self up again i'm the corner. And
though under a black skin, this Ne
gro showed one Of the finest virtues
OF life-in that he did not think
more highly Of himself than ne
ought 10 think.
THE bird that sings it's sweetest
song
Builds on the ground her lowly
nest"
SO, today. as young people, turn
your glance inward and say II am
but as a little child. 7 know not
how 70 so out or 10 come in"