The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-08-08
REACHING. THE SUMMIT AND CO.
ING OVER THE TOP INcURS BIG
RISKS, BUT Is. ESSENTIAL TO
SUCCESS.

RISKS, But IS ESSENTIAL TO
SUCCESS.
se (By w IL. Dugdale)
cover the Top" sounds patriotic. It
is a slogan applicable to the events
of today, but did it ever occur to you
that to go cover the top you must
first reach the summit? Did you ever
consider the awful risks and dangers
that lurk often unseensIn the pain
that leads to the summit? Our boys
know it now Death and destruc.
ton pave the way over the. top and
it is beyond the power of any MIND 70
conceive just what it means, unless
he has been there. The blood stained
fields of No Mans Land is grim re.
minder OF an attempt to reach the
summit and go over the top and
many a brave boy in khaki, with 9
stout heart and high spirit, has
given his life to go .over the top. 8
Going over the tor. is not the main
point, 1t is reaching the summit that
counts. The awful chasm between
the front line Of defense and the sum
nit is a dangerous and difficult road
TO travel aIIa here is where the. rea
hanger lies. Once the summit i
reached le boys have good chance.
to 20 over klle Top. The trenehe4
have t1eir shaTe Ia dangers as vel
sfheit oteckio and how can
.sgt1f 9se taxy regt
little or no protection from the eIzE
ments, strewn with the bodies of
dead msn. infested with verInin and
rodenfs-laow can 1t be conducive OF.
any good results IL our people would
only seriously consider the awful con-
ditions that our boys in the trenches
are compelled from necessity to en-
dure; if they could or would realize
the forced conditions that they must
fight in, they would be willing and
ready to make any personal sacrifice
to make life in the trenches as COM
Portable as possible. Our government
and President Wilson, ably assisted
by :Messrs. Daniels and McAdoo, are
doing their best to alleviate the suf-
ferings our boys are compelled to EN-
dure, and remember this is war
without parallel in history, and
what are you doing to end this war?
Ask yourself the question as you are
best qualified to answer it.
This war has abolished the feeling
that there are sections in the good
old u. S.@A. We realize there is no
North, South, East or West now; it
is all America. backed by men Of un-
deniable will power and this is what |
counts in reaching the summit. Do t
you know that the human will is an
instrument of wonderful powers. No
man, nor nation, ever made much OF I
q showing who was shy on will power
Talent and genius can not take the
place of will power, all very good /
where they belong but the will power
backed by bulldog tenacity is as
staunch as the Rock of Gibraltar, and
the gate through which our boys will I
pass to reach the summit and go over
The top-in true American style.
There is an old saying that no man
IS whipped until he feels whipped,
which no doubt is true. So long as a
fellow has the sand to try again, and
stay on the job, he is in pretty good
shape Remember a lot, Of our boys
over there are new in the game. They
ire just now beginning to understand
what is expected of them. They are
willing and anxious, quick to learn
and always obey orders, and if he does
lot do exactly what he sets out to do
1e will as surely turn up right and
cat thrown out of win
low who always lights on it's feet
So will q fellow with will power to
back his enthusiasm; but bear in
mind that will with all its power is
not omnipotent. The human being
las his limitations and he can no
more transcend them than he can lift
himself by his book straps. The per-
son who does not appraise his en-
lowments accurately and by will tries
@ go beyond them is surely a candi-
late for some degree of punishment.
The fellow that looks ahead, measures
lis distance, keeps cool head, and
stands by his guns, is the fellow that
.eaches the summit and prepares the
way to make the. path straight Jehn
he Baptist was the first man on this
ob, he prepared the way; now it is
Id to us to do the same thing. In
civil life people pretend to ,be too
busy and Indifferent to reach and
maintain the standard of interest they
should. They are too busy making
money and the very thing that makes
t possible for them to attain their de-
,ires are the things they most neglect
Don't you know that scale Of wages
las gone so high, especially in the
production of war materials, that