The Washington times., 1919-10-05

track and mat the locomotive head first You can guess the
resi-
That young bull had nerve, but judgment was missing
end 90 was he, as soon the locomotive met him.
This picture presents Mr. BOCays idea Of the two elo-
sts important to the human mind that want to 60 far
and do sOmething worth while
All through Nature you find forces working IN opposite
directions and thus maintaining the balance in which we
I've.
You have the force Of gravitaon that causes matter to
act matter You have the radioactive forces and the
gases ia which matter pushes away matter
n that mysterious forcs called electricity you have two
esments negative electricity and positive electricity,
each pushing away its kind and attracted TO the other
m as IN animal life you have the two sexes ia which
opposite attracts opposite
And in the human mind you have the two qualities
represented BY the giant figures outlined ia this picture
la5sled Nerve" and "GOOd Judgment"
Nerve" standing erect and defiant says to the man
With doom behind and disaster in 'front.' GO ct him; don't
he afraid"
Good Judgment CrOuching low and thinking, says:
By and By, wait moment think It over First make up
ycUE mind HOW you going to get him Then start
your work and put it through"
We are taught too thoroughly admiration for courage
nerve by itself Not enough is said about the good iudg
@ that always accompanies courage whenever it is sue
es-gful IN the long
Every little schooIboy knows how Caesar crossed the
Rubo0n the small river that lay between him and the
Roman Senate The Senate didn't want him back he was
who thinks Of Caesar only as fighter always going ahead
But be went backward quickly as be went ahead,
when judgment told him TO back up. BE had studied
Roman politics, gained the favor Of the people in every
conceivable way It was good judgment that sent him
across the RubcOu good judgment sent him into Gau
that he might build himself up at home by conquest abroad
And it was his bad Judgment that caused his murder
and his downfall Good Judgment" asleep and
EerVe" was boss when he made himself dictator King
practically, although not in His best friends killed
him. or rather he killed himself with bad judgment
In all Of u.s. even the weakest there are the two forces
pushing ahead pulling back We move through life
the pull too hard BACKWARD we land in trouble or
stagnatiOn
II there is good balance Of nerve and Judgment we move
along evenly and 60 as far on the road native ability viii
carry
is evident that mans chief task in life is to cultivate
good judgment without permitting caution to deaden
courage.
Qualities mental and physical can be cultivated and de-
Yelopsd and especially the mental qualities.
The possibility Of mental development is not limited by
age The right kind Of mind pushed by courage that
stimulates work does between ten and twenty than
sFsE before more yet between forty and fifty, still
hstTeen sixty and eighty.
Gladstone did his great work after he was seVenyhve
This writer heard him. when he was eighty years Of age at
three o'clock in the morning making in the House Of Com
magnificent speech of hand in defense Of Ireland
few minutes after the Of the MtChsstOWn disaster
vas received. NERVE kept Gladstone fighter until he
died past eighty; GOOD JUDGMENT changed him from
The Tory son Of Tory merchant into leader Of liberals
and radicals
Goethe finished the second and greater part Of Faust
when he past seventy And Victor Hugo that age was
intellectual king Of France. Age makes difference you
retain nerve and judgment.
You CAN cultivate in yourself nerve and good iudg-
@ deliberately and successfully. Nerve that wisely faces
Hanger matter, first Of ssf-disCplne second Of good
ah The ordinary man loses courage Ia illness Just as
he loses courage "a the dark or in the words Of famous
glter, AT i've o'clock II the morning"
Nan Is q thinking mind, dwelling in animal body,
tsd from the blood Of that body suffering when the body
suffers and weak when e IS weak, USUALLY.
There ere exceptions Napoleon won Of his first great
victories . Italy when he a diseased young man, his
plagued with the itch In his brain he had "itCh"