The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-19
MUST KEEP FIT
Speaker Urges ROtarians to
Play Game Of Life.
u. E. Scott, Louisville, Ky., Su-
perintendent, Before Club.

Keep fit, mentally morally and
physically, to play the game of life
the greatest game in the world 2. E.
Scott, superintendent of the city
schools of Louisville, KY, told the To-
peka Rotarians today in an address
at the luncheon at the Chamber OF
Commerce.
Life is like any other game-it is
played according to definite rules.
Sometimes a player can foul can
evade some of the rules and get by
for q while But not for long" the
speaker decl2rcd.
Scott urged physical fitness on the
Rotarians as a duty and an oppor-
tunity of the business and professional
man. He is himself a splendid ex-
ample of the doctrine he preached.
He holds a high place as a wrestler
and as track man.
BE Proud of Bodies"
I'VE should be proud of the bodies
which may have been given us, and
keep them in good condition" Scott
declared. zone of the ways in which
you Rotarians can help your sons and
othef young men, is set an example OF
physical fitness for them to follow.
TO keep fit makes a man a better
business man, I'd like to see every
man of forty years of age feel like a
twenty -year-old, and every man
of sixty feel like thirty-five."
Add to your physical fitness, the
quality of moral resistance to evil"
Scott warned the Rotarians, and the
admonition was met with rigorous ap-
plause from his audience. Every
business man owes it to the young
people for whom he is a pattern-per-
haps unknowingly-to offer them an
example of resistance to evil"
Courage is one of the oId-fashloned
virtues which the world is demanding
now. and paying for. Honesty is an
other, Scott declared.
II believe that business in the
United States today stands in need
of more oId-fashioned, simon-pure in
dustry" Scott asserted. Il believe
that every man should be able to do
an honest lays work, and come up
smiling after it."
IN say to every young man, and
TO every business man." the speaker
declared, BE a fighter.
Take pride il your achievements
and use them as a model for further
achievement.
Must set Example.
las business men and school men,
we must set an example for the boys
and girls who know us. II they be.
lieve in us they will play the game OF
Scott was introduced by A J. Stout
superintendent of the schools of To-
peka. who is a classmate of his. The
program today was in charge of Rob
ert Cook, principal of the Topeka high
school.
Another speaker on the program
I was L. w. Mayberry, superintendent
OF schools at Wichita. whose father,
l. X. Mayberry, was formerly a resi-
dent OF Topeka.
Mayberry called attention to the bill
board which has remained in the
Chamber of Commerce parlors, since
the convention of the Tri State Poster
Advertising association Monday and
Tuesday.
The board carries the most recent
poster issued by the Rotary clubs and
the national advertising organization.
in their cooperative effort to stimu-
late business conditions, thru psyche
logical means.
Mayberry urged a better morale in
business and industrial conditions in
the United States during 1922 than
existed in 1921.
More than a dozen educators of the
state. members of the Rotary club,
were at the meeting today. and were
introduced. They are in attendance
at the meeting of the council of ad-
ministration.