THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY,. SEPTE-MBER, THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY,. SEPTEMBER IRTON'S OPNIN SP I N BRIEF (Continued from Page Nine) n, for broad mindedness and above for intellectual honesty. The mor- cowardice of the human race isa icient sometimes to occasion de, Ir. Its forms are constantly be-< you. Learn to detect them quick- Lud to hit them hard. Lincoln and1 sevelt did. nd just here in the largest sense, igh it sounds paradoxical, youa at enter the fight against fighting. I s is not sheer pacifism. Nor does or an instant oppose adequate mili-a r and naval protection for our na- , but it does insist that man musta to destroy war or war will de- Zv d n 01, iitazr A ni l idealized and where hard mental ef- fort is recognized as normal and nat- ural, then we shall have a better Uni- versity. Above all, here and in the years to come, we shall have to fight for a dependable, trustworthy world. That is why we shall fight against war and seek for social and international jus- tice. The fundamental economic is- sue of the nation and the world you must seek to understand. The days just ahead should compel you to think earnestly about the main political is- sues of this great democracy. I sup- pose the processes of creative life al- ways involve disruption and confu- sion. Our physical world, still in the making, has its erupting volcanoes and its terrifying earthquakes. Like- wise society has its confusions, mis- understandings, and bitter conflicts. To help the great creative processes of life and civilization must be your consuming cause. TTI I >y er wei I lio 1gi or S si t W sta t. in ni lw ]ti 1, uc LI 1: sfu aes igi >h ti is. gb ryt nc tl aw rt ai pl Tet te 'gr Sh im vel st 1 o r in w :e n IHt man. uur imIiary ana nava .II ts fully realize that the race is To enlist as a soldier in the great en "catastrophe and education." armies of mankind is not a task to the Department of the Interior be undertaken lightly. When you get ast Congress appropriated 262 into the battle you will want to be n dollars of which 230 million able to do something. Perhaps we o to pay pensions to the soldiers, see vaguely the great causes for which s and widows of wars and this we would fight butthis only empha-' not include those of the great sizes our helplessness. With what, No one neec s to attempt to em- equipment do you plan to go? ze the meaning of this single It is useless to imagine that your, o the future of civilization. Nor cause will not need defense. It will n intelligent person fail to un- ask of you all that you have and are. and what he is called upon to Any waste of health or time or money You simply must be a fighter or opportunity will weaken just so st everything which robs man of much your strength for the fight. irth right. First of all, just as with the soldier, II. you must go with the very best train- tegative attitude to life, however, ing you can secure. It must be inten- nays a weak one. We must have sive and prolonged. You want prac- ve convictions, glowing aspira- tical skill and technical ability and warm appealing ideals to make most of all you want intelligence. You cess of this struggle. What then must have a mind that is broad and we fight for? spacious into which new ideas and nan cannot fight any enemy suc- new vision can enter and find a hos- ully until he can master him- pitable welcome. "Every man that striveth in -the Then you must have a body, clean, s exerciseth self control in all strong and virle, which can take the s." Our present day does not strain and carry it through long cam- asize discipline unduly. Many paigns of suffering and exposure and fy life with doing what you want can meet the crisis, with calmness. . o soldier ever won on that Perhaps there is no more solemn The first thing you must make warning that American youth needs it for is character. Upon that, today than just this Allelse will prove thing else must depend. Your valueless if, when the test comes, your e in life will rest just there. In physical vigor is gone. Conserve jeal- e ways, which no one of us can ously the vitality upon which youm vare of, others know whether at fighting power depends.l we are sound and square. As A brawl is not a battle. Confusion1 d in this life-long conquest, you spells defeat. The fighter has plans y must have a growing mind. I and knows where he is going. ,The' imes think that the crime of ne- 'strategy of war wins the victory. d abilities is never sufficiently ,Among your equipment must he found nized and penalized except in your carefully thought out plans. It ow processes of the gods. It is is at this point that we provide for ne against yourself, against your the recognition of the various branch- rsity," and against society. You es of the army and for individual ca- fight for the utmost development practice. o two of you are alike. ur faculties. Just as you stretch Each must, in one sense, fight his own muscles to the breaking point to battle and make his own contribution. athletic skill and physical You must know yourself and what ess, just so stretch your brains. above everything you want to do. Just them work to the limit. Insist what are you seeking? Money, power, seeing how much there is in you success, fame, happiness, culture, elligence and intellectual capa- learning? You must go into this con- For be assured that life will flict equipped with a clear, positive," precisely and repeatedly just determined idea of what you could do. demand upon you. It requires a scientific knowledge of v if, working together, such re- your capacities, and understanding of are to be possible, we must fight the world's work and needs, and a true Ukriversity. How much one courageous reckoning with your inner . likte to say here! This ought aims. o be a place where we fight to No man can 'do this' for himself. >ne another as individuals. What Life is 'no mere physical- force nor is' ant is excellence in every field. it parallel to a logical interpretation nerely the development of star- of it. There is a spiritual 'world. The s or star-students but a fine wind bloweth where it listeth and we erative creative effort to attain know not whence it cometh nor whith- s of distinction and value. er it goeth. Any person who keeps this is ia place where teachers ! himself at the center of his world is, tudents alike revere learning, lost. Religion, In its deepest sense, inquiry and experiment are, is a necessity. Unless you carry this equipment your fighting will be too personal in its attack, too narrow in its range,,too defective in its thrust. You must in some way become related in the right way to the whole cam- paign and the whole onward sweep ot the spiritual armies of mankind. With some such equipment the fighter can strike an effective blow for higher things. Next to what a man fights for, the finest thing about him is or should be how he fights. You can approve of a man because of the kind of enemies he has, you can admire the cause he supports, you can respect the equip- ment with which he enters the arena, but in the last analysis you are con- cerned about his methods. How are you lighting? A college student knows what we mean by true sportsmanship. This you must have. It calls for fairness and generosity at every point. A true sportsman never makes excuses, he takes his punishment silently and good naturedly. He gradually learns how to be a good loser and a gener- ous winner He does not have to hiss an opponent or to find rampant satis- faction in the "breaks" of a game which bring his side an advantage. He looks for real skill and achieve- ment according to the rules of the game. Excellence is his chief reward. Wherever you fight you' will find these qualities essential if not indis- pensible. A man who fights with this spirit will have available all his strength for the real combat. After the prep- aration is over and the equipment has been put on, the actual fighting must- be done. It calls for alertness o the first order. The enemy must be watched and avenues of supplies must be garded. It demands capacity to meet unexpected attacks and ener*" gencies. It calls for initive and crea- tive activity of the highest type. Watchfulness, quickness, directness and morale of an irresistible and com- pelling kind are essential. One great spiritual warrior wrote: "I 'therefore so run as not uncertainly; so fight I as not beating the air; but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage." That describes the 'only effective method. It gets self out of the way and proceeds with definiteness and sureness of aim to attack the enemy. General principles are important, a specific plan for your life is essential, but when you come to live each day, to fight each skirmish and 'to put to rout each individual enemy, very clear and definite action is indispensible. I' certain friends harm you, deal frank- ly with themt You cannot 'safely or wisely quarter the enemy. But the battle is not only to the quick. In modern warfare they dig in. The trench is a symbol for per- sistence and thoroughness. You too will discover that the fight is a long one and the chief test will be, are you going forward or backward. No one. is ever discharged from this battle The harder he fights, the more vul- nerable are the heights which he mus' defend. No sinner feels so keenly his sins as 'thesaint. You can hear 'tihe' heroes and martyrs calling back to you:' "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against pin." Courage then gives you your meth- od. It asks you to call up all your latent powers.: You have never dreamed .of ,what you can do if all your being is put into action. The great war taught the world that no man is a common soldier when give a heroic task. It uses all he has. Sc you must as a fighter take a risk. You '-nnot begin by asking for 'victory. fod End your safety are not the- chie ponceri'. Your cause, your plan, yor ideal is yourself. It is all that really counts with the fighter. He is "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worst- ed, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." In conclusin, it will be fatal to ima- gine that life ever congeals, that it is a static or unchanging thing. Your cause will grow and your plans will develop. The range of the battle will expand and the deals of today cannot be the standards of tomorrow. When you have learned through experience that lesson you are becoming the fighter that the world needs. As Lud- wig Lewisohn in "The Creative Life" says: "Perfection is far off. We do not know what it is. To our vision1 it seems, moreover, dangerously like stagnation, like death. -What remains? Experiment, striving through greater error to loss, through lower beautyt and truth to higher. He who strives thus has done the utmost that is-given man to do; him the eternal armies will gladly receive." Very concretely, the University stu- dent, to be worthy of his privileges, cannot be a potterer, or a mere recep-" tacle. Rather he must he an active, creative force seeking now a deeper understanding of his -universe and in the days to come joining the positive forces which battle for the truth. 'He understands that while he prepares here he is learning to fight; that evenl now lie must be the true fighter. Two hundred and fifty thousand students, representing five, hundred' universities arid colleges in the Uni-. ted States, are being enrolled in Re- publican clubs by the Republica: party, and approximately 150,000 of these will presumably lie able to vote the Republican ticket in . November, according to members of the Republi- can National committee in charge of the work. John Hamilton and Royal R. Jor- dan, who are directing the organiza- tion of these clubs, declj-i. that the Republican party will be stren;;then-' ed not only by the vote of undergrad- uates but through the influence these students will exert on other citizens. Two hundred of the five hundred schools have Republican clubs that have been functioning for some time. The remaining three hundred have been organized recently. An out- standing feature of the clubs is the rivalry manifested among studentsI to win for their club the largest per- centage of membership in the coun- try, in proportion to the student en- rollment of their college. While it is true, according to Mr. Jordan, that only forty per cent. -of college and university students are of voting age, he said that many of the younger men and women do not join the political clubs. Hence he believes that sixty per cent. of the club enrollment will be eligible to the ballot. One of the chief values of the Republican clubs, le be- lieves, is in the careful training and instruction of students not yet of vot- ing age in practical politics. Ie be- lieves that this training will have an appreciable effect on the voting pub- lic of future years. Read the Official Announcements and Campus News in The Daily. EMEREC TIRE SERVICE We are always on the job ready to give you immediate service and reliable service, any time of day or night. 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