Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-09-26
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Up 10 lie age VI I'VE Or SlA, the
small boys hero is his father.
When he is ten, he
Who Are begins to suspect
Your Heroes? that the captain Of
the baseball team
has an ledge" on papa.
BY and by, when he has read lit
tie history, he picks out George Wash
ington-if he isn't in the meantime
Influenced by the career of Captain
Kidd.
Who are your heroes?
Napoleon? Wellington? Lindbergh?
Hero worship, if not overindulged
in, is an excellent thing.
To be hero-or to be known as a
hero-means that one has done some
thing worth doing and done it extreme
ly well.
He may be war hero or a peace
hero.
But whether he is a writer or a
fighter or painter or an actor, his
example is highly useful to people,
who, if they had no heroes at all,
would be the worse for it.
Every human being needs examples
that are worth following.
Every human being ought to feel
the influence of men and women who
through hardship and trouble have
held fast to their purpose Of doing
something worth while-of being some
body-of being a little more than
average useful in this world.
You are not limited to one alone.
You can, if you choose, have a doz-
en- or a hundred or a thousand Of
them.
Look the list over. 1t is a long one.
"As man thinks, so is he."
And the influence Of those around
him, or Of men who have lived and
done splendid things in the past are
sure to control his thoughts.
think Longfellow exaggerated
when he wrote:
& Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
The sands of time ,oiU not be trodden
by Uery many people of your acquaint-
Gnce, and il will not always be possible
for you to foLLoW great examples.
But you will do wisely to be guided
to a great extent by the careers of
real heroes, and even if you fail Who'll
ly to be as useful and as unselfish as
they were, you will be better and
happier because you did try to be as
much like them as you were able to be.
So pick your heroes, and stand by
them.
You cannot lose thereby, and you
may greatly gain.
Not all life savers "bend to the
oars" when an SOS comes from a
ship stormbound on
Life lee shore.
Savers The great majority
of them sit beside
sick beds, or toll day and night in
laboratories seeking ways and means
to conquer disease and to alleviate
the sufferings of the sick.
AS a rule little is known of these
men and their activities.
They toll, sometimes for years, in
finding cures for diseases that not
so long ago swept across the country
and brought death or deformity with
them.
Today they are working to find a
means of combating infantile paraly-
sis which has killed, or left MANNED and
helpless, thousands of children.
l remember when / was a child an
epidemic of this malady spread over
the country, and hundreds Of children
were slain by it, or left MANNED and
almost helpless for the rest of their
lives.
Scarlet fever, diphtheria, dozens of
scourges which once were menace
to young or old, have been done away
with entirely.
And all because quiet, determined
men worked hard and long, often at
the risk of their lives, to cope with
them.
1t was not so very long ago that
once smallpox began to spread, it had
ito wear itself out" as the saying
went.
Nothing could be done about 1t.
Today 1t is almost extinct.
Who has accomplished this benefi-
cent miracle?
Chiefly men who have little to gain
but fame, and who care nothing for
that.
The zest for helping the unfortunate
is what inspires them.
AS long as they have brains to think
with they will apply themselves to
tho xuork of driving nuf and kaonin0