The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-08
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
A Friend in Disguise

yHE greatest friend in disguise to humanity is Fear.
Most readers will probably object to this statement
- They believe that Fear is enemy for they have
been taught from their youth up told SO thousands
of times.
Fear has been called the foe of life. We have been
urged to resist it something evil to be ashamed Of it
something dsgracefu to struggle and pray against
it as something immoral
But Fear is universal You find wherever you find
any form of fe And how could Nature have made any
thing evil and have set integral part OF the order
of things?
the will of the conscious mind It is an instinct It
lies beneath the will and comes up out OF the sub
Our conclusion therefore, must be that, if Nature
made it and put in every living thing it must be in
trlnscally good like all the other gifts OF Nature
And it is Fear is really the challenge to Life. It is
the principal of the development and perfection OF
What Nature has in mind the great purpose of destiny
far understand it, is that every living thing
shall grow fully unfold its powers, and put forth its
energies until it arrives at the highest degree of fitness
and strength of which it is capable
This is the gst of Evolution. This is what we mean
by the survival of the ftes Those forms of life that
develop most normally preserved, become strong
and propagate Those forms OF life which are deficient
to their environment, are eliminated by feebleness
disease and impotence
life force to exert ITSELF and thus to become strong
and to survive.
The hero has lust as much Fear as the coward Only
Fear him and he struggles; this struggle makes
him strong and his life The feeber life forces
of the coward do not rally they fall into panic and
fusion he yields and does struggle and so Nature
eliminates him.
This is why it is said that he that overcometh shall
have the crown of life
The moral man differs from the immoral simply in
that his spirit stands and fights and thus he achieves
character. Every immoral man is simply spiritual slob
He is an intrinsic coward.
The great of drunkards drug fiends licentious
liars and thieves, simply moral weakings Doing
right involves certain amount of danger and of pain
Fear stands there with drawn sword They dare not
resist, and slip away down easy bypah that leads
to DEATH
We love fighter and admire brave but the vast
majority of the world have only got far enough along
to appreciate physical bravery; that is the kind Of
courage which the wolf has, and all animals.
The courage of the spirit is still all too rarely appre-
ciated This is that kind of courage that face the
of poverty rather than cheat the fear trouble
rather than lie the fear of bodily craving rather than
take drugs the fear of rdicule and contempt rather
than do dishonorable thing
The more humanity develops into the realm of the
spirit the more it recognizes that what call sin or
vice is nothing but coWardice It is all part of Natures
great process of eliminating the unfit by Fear
And that Fear when it is accepted as challenge
and stimulates the forces life develops fitness
makes the strong stronger, and carries out Natures
great plan
Copyright 1929 by the Mcclure syndicate)