The Washington herald., 1919-01-07
BRILLIANT BITS
:oF''TEDDYISMS"
Moral Ideals of Colonel as
Virile as His Charac-
ter Was Strong.

ter Was Strong.
ances were marked by striking sem
tences. Below are some of the most
striking:
"Sentimentality is the most broken
reed on which Righteousness can lean"
II have no use for an ideal so lofty
that 1t can be taken out on Sunday TO.
admire. and must be kept in cotton
wool the remainder OF the week"
TN the long run the fig tree Is
Judged by the fact that it produces
figs and not thistles."
"It Is idle to raise a man unless the
woman is raised at the same time"
"a practical man without ideals is
q curse, and the greater his ability
the greater a curse he is"
Beware OF the man who does not
translate his words into deeds."
Countries must be strong in order
to be good and TO help the weak
against the overbearing."
"The man who does nothing cuts
the same sordid figure In the pages
Of history. whether he be cynic, or fop,
or yoluptuary."
There Is little use for the being
whose tepid soul knows nothing or the
great and generous emotion, OF the
high pride. the stern belief, the lofty
enthusiasm OF the men who quell th'
storm and ride the thunder"
at Is the war-worn Hotspur sTC'
with hard fighting, he of the m"
errors and OF the valiant end, ov
whose memory we love to linger,
over the memory of the young l.
who, but for the vile guns. W,
have been a soldier"
"It is a bad thing for a nation
raise and to admire false standaiu
of success, and there can be no falser
standard than that set by delification
of material well-being in and for it.
self"
THE first essential in any civiliza-
ton is that the man and the woman
shall be father and mother of healthy
children SO that the race shall in
crease and not decrease"
when IT clearly appears that there
is a real conflict between them. hu-
man rights must have the upper
hand, for property belongs to man
and not man to property"
There is nothing to be done with
that type of citizen OF whom all that
can be said is that he is harmless"
Virtue which is dependent upon a
sluggish circulation is not impress
sive."
The good citizen is not a good
citizen unless he is an efficient
citizen"
IF a mans efficiency is not guided
and regulated by a moral sense. then
the more efficient he is the worse
he is
Courage. intellect. all the mas
terful qualities. serve but to make
a man more evil il they are used
merely for that mans own advance
ment, with brutal indifference to the
rights OF others"
We can Just as little AFFORD to
follow the doctrinaires OF an ex-
treme individualism as the doc
trinaires of an extreme socialism"
ITO say that the thriftless. the
! lazy. the vicious, the incapable
ought to have the reward given TO
those who are farsighted. capable
and upright is to say what is not
true and cannot be true"
The good citizen will demand
liberty for himself. and as mat
ter of pride he will see to it that
others receive the liberty he thus
claims for himself"
The overbearing brutality of the
man of wealth or power and the en-
vious and hateful malice directed
gainst wealth and power are really
at root merely different manifesto
tions Of the same quality"
Ruin looks us in the face II we
Judge a man by his position instead
of Judging him by his conduct in that
position"
There is no greater need today
than the need to keep ever in mind
the fact that the cleavage between
right and wrong, between good citi-
zenship. runs at right angles to and
not parallel with the lines of cleavage
between class and class. between oc-
cupation and occupation
mo man is worth calling a man
who will not fight rather than submit
! to infamy or see those that are dear
to him suffer wrong"
"Our words must be judged by our
deeds, and in striving for a lofty ideal
we must use practical methods: and
! if we cannot attain all at one leap
we must advance toward it step by