The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-02-06


and to his God He must endeavor tt
meet his obligations if he is to fill
his place as a man. He is indebted tC
himself to maintain his integrity by
making the most of himself and to
store up resources of knowledge, vir-
tue, friendship and heart treasure. His
full development is necessary to en-
able him to enjoy life and to exper-
ience that inward thrill of peace and
happiness that goes with a definite
knowledge of real worth.
Again, after he has treated his rea-
son as a granny and stored it with
weapons against the day of battle, his
memory as a gallery and filled it with
pictures of beautiful past, then g
second principle asserts itself, that o1
his obligation to his fellows. He
must be developed in order that his
influence and example may count fol-
righteousness. Society is realizing
the debt of strength to weakness Men
who selfishly get much and give lit
tie, who have become Dead Seas of
accumulated wealth are losing their
standing in society We must be like
the river Nile with its overflow of
life and give to the world the best we
have. Finally, we must be at our best
because of the debt we owe to our
God who has given His son that we
might inherit eternal life.
How are we to become real men of
worth? How are we to fulfill our
three-fold obligation? We must de-
velop our physical and intellectual
natures in such proportion as to pro-
duce we'll balanced and effective work
ers in the great task of leading and
guiding the world to higher and holier
things. Fundamentally, man is a
muscular machine for producing the
ideas that shape conduct and char
acter. All fine thinking stands with
one foot on fine brain fiber. Given
large physical organs, lungs with ca
pacity sufficient to oxgenate the life
currents as they pass upward; large
arteries through which the blood may
have full course, brain healthy and
balanced, with a compact nervous sys-
tenn ,and you have the foundation for
building man to meet the modern
demands. A great leader represents
a kind of common sense which is SAN
ity of nerve and brain. He who rules
must have mind and will but he must
have chest and stomach also. Ideas
are the arrows of the world and the
body is the bow that sends them home.
The mind aims, the body fires. Good
health may be better than genius,
wealth or honor. 1t was when the
gymnasium had made each Athenian
youth an Apollo in health and
strength, that the feet of the Greek
'unner, ran most nimbly along the !
paths of art, literature and philosophy
Secondly, in order to build true man.
lood, the intellect must be developed.
'he largest waste of any individual
ation is through ignorance. Failure
5 want Of knowledge; success is
moving how. Wealth does not lay
n things of iron, wood, or stone, but
les in the brain that organizes the
letal. A developed intellect is the
hannel through which has come to
s, our marvellous twentieth century
Utilization. History knows no illit-
rate seer, sage or saint. An ignorant
ian may be defined as one whom God
as packed up and men have never
The best forces in such a
ne are perpetually paralized Eyes
e has but he sees not; ears he has,
ut all the finest sounds in creation
scape him; tongue he has; but it is !
,rever blundering. An educated mind
one fully awakened to all the sights, !
,enes and forces in the world through
hich it moves. 1t has been the edu-
ated mind of the past that has
rought the great worldwide social
Id religious reforms, that has made t
Le inventions and discoveries which S
i've been the architects of states and
atoms. God did not give man long
gs to traverse the continent in
eek but a mind able to build a loco
otive The worth of the human mind
ay be indefinitely enhanced when
Q consider that thoughts are the b
ings from which we are made and q
cas-, the warriors of the world. ut Z
only the educated person, who can II
operly interpret nature, feel the 3
arm of music, and experience the n
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