The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-27
GOOD IDEA TO GET
OUT in THE OPEN
A Few Days in the Woods Will Prove
That Life is Worth Living.
(5Y CAPT. FRANK WINcH.)
Sec. American SnalIbore League.

Sec. American SmaIlbore League.
Get out in the openl
This doesn't mean that you have to
fish or hunt. Just live in a tent, or
shack or blanket up under a roof of
the starry heavens. There's bit of
playland a mile or two. mebbe more,
from just the spot you are in now. a
paradise of which you can be the SUI
lperman, away from trouble, worry,
fears and the bitterness of every day
life. where mind, body and soul rise in
triumphant ecstacy to the full enjoy
ment of God-given recreation.
Pack your duffle and go. Keep ago
Ing until the outer rim Of city smoke
merges away in the distant murky pan
oply above, until you see the country
roadside, where houses are at least ell
bow length away; still keep a-going.
There's a great field, meadow, a patch
of woods, a babbling brook or just
lonesome old sentinel of the forest,
with its goodly spread, inviting you
to the secluded, shaded spot beneath
its outstretched arm of welcome. Sat
urate your inners with the gladstone
tonic that nature has stored for you
in her woundrous house of wonders; let
it percolate through every fiber, the
sunshine, the sky, the wind the tang
of the earth or briny deep, the spices
of balsam, fir and hemlock, the aro-
matte, health-laden, chest expanding
ozone of the all great outdoors.
A Good Vacation.
There the mind is unbent with free
dom, where heart pulsates with ami
nation. where the whole animal as well
as intellectual being is revivified under
healthful influences.
Where you go is relatively of no i'm
portance at all. There is just as good
la vacation twenty miles away as
twenty thousand. The important thing
is a change, a break with your daily
routine and the illusion of being out
of harness, irresponsible, free agent
at large in space with no hours to keep
and nothing hanging over you. You
can get this in one green place as well
as in another.
The great outdoors develops square
men, fair men, get-there, do-and- dare
men; it gives the right start, a light
heart, is a builder of self-respect, the
key TO a personal Independence; makes
men tower in the confidence of power;
makes the world a comedy Of success;
it makes few things impossible OF
achievement.
Get your forehead on a level with
truth; out with you from the valley of
monotony; get to the open, nudge right
up to the fraternity of field and
stream; more yet. co operate with ma
ture. Mingle with the trees, grow ia
miliar and friendly with winds. dawns
and sunsets. Study grain of wheat
until you see that it is the biography
of a summer.
The JOY One Feels.
After all, what is this hunting, fish
ing and outdoorsman game but big
bit of the bigger game of life? And the
real sportsman is not playing the game
merely for the prize. He is playing
the game for the fun and the health
of it, for the honor in giving game a
square deal more than the mere get
ting of the limit Chin up and a twinkle
in his eve when the trail is hard, back
straight and CLEAN Of grim joy when
the shooting is poor or the fishing is
bad.
A regular fellow this, who is careful
of his campfire and matches, who re-
alizes that though one tree will make
a million matches, one match can burn
a. million trees, who makes sure it's a
buck-if there aren't any horns he
knows she hasn't any-who leaves a
clean camp and clean record, appre-
ciating that crippled game and broken
laws are a poor monument for a sports
man to leave behind him.
And when the trial is over and the
sky golden and red with the setting
sun. the outdoorsman smiles. For life
has been to him the great game; he
has lived by the side of the trail, not
trampled over 1.-THE real
sportsman, gentleman and soldier at
heart, brave to the soul of him, the
mans sized man, the American out
doorsman.