New Britain herald., 1923-09-18
HOW SHALL WE GET THEM?

The New Haven Jonrnal-Courier
 presents a thoughtful editorial com
 menting on the deeper significance oi
 the Dempsey-F fight. exclaiming
 Lets have done with international
 signiflcances' in this sorry show of
 dollars and blood let's have
 done with white supremacy and the
 Nordic glory as thus demonstrated"
 Amen and amen. No national halo
 of Illuminating glory should be seen
 encirclng the hairy heads of these
 fighters. They represented nothing
 but themselves and their desire to win, for themselves, although there may have been in the heart of the man of an emotional race fleeting thought of the adulation that would be shown him by his own people were he to become champion of the world. There should be cast about the en- counter no illusions of international or racial importance. Such mouth ings of sentimentalists are, to use the vernacular "all rot" In this full ac- cord is had with the Journal Courier.
 But may there be full agreement with the journal with which, to agree, is usually to compliment oneself, when it declares that contemplation of that fight is a study of national de- genoracy? Might the writer who pen ned the words referred to glance about him at the representatives of the younger generation with whom he is most familiar and consider them? Which of them were most interested in the encounter? Did those most in terested show signs of the menacing degeneracy to the race, the approach of which he believes this fight has tened? Were not those most inter- ested the most efficient, the strongest the men upon whom one might rely in an emergency? Or were those in- terested representatives the young men who knew far more and cared far more about the latest jazz steps and who would try to get out of an evening assignment because of some affair tbat would engage their atten- tion socially that evening? Were the ones or the indifferent ones the kind whose force, whose personal ity counted most in the office? The ones were not tinged with degeeracy The indifferent ones ''degeneracy' has many definitions.
 And speaking of group of people discussing the League of Nations earnedly, the editorial states that the of these cultivated, | polished, gentlemanly people was too spiritual, too classic. What the | League needs" declares the Journal Courier, Ito put it across is dozen | 0empseys, dedicating their magnif- | 'ent strength and godlike powers to he concept of l'renchman, German, | Japanese, looking full and fair into | ,ach others eyes and saying | Brother Again Amen! A braham .incoln's physical strength is cited; Theodore Roosevelt's power, men trong of body and great of mind. These are the sort of men the League leeds to put it across: these are the nen every nation needs, this country most of all because it holds the acred trust of power.
 But how are we to get them? hall we frown. upon every test of outrage and stamina and strength fhere there is chance that red blood | Fill appear, and encourage the ris- ng generation to vent it's excess vital- y in dancing, motor speeding. con- tant association with physical 'eakness? Shall we get that dozen ,empseys" by showing Jack the rrors Of his way and sending him 3 school and compelling him to keep is sons, if any he has. from all ircnuus sport?
 or shall we encourage the male