Cottage Grove sentinel and Cottage Grove leader., August 27, 1920, Image 4

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920
H O L D IN G B A C K T H E C H ILD .
“ As the twig is bent, so the tree
» ill g ro w '’ is an old saying and one
o f the most apt and truthful ones ever
spoken. To its application there is no
limit. It was coined after observing
a never failing law o f nature.
And what is true o f vegetable life is
almost equally true of human life. The
child grown to manhood follows the
bent of youthful days, and an almost
superhuman effort is required to
straighten the twist o f mind or mor­
als received in childhood.
While psychologists have most fre­
quently demonstrated this truth by
studies in morality, there is another
phase which demonstrates with equal
truthfulness the workings of the inex
orable laws of nature and has been
only less thoroughly and less profound
ly projaiunded because its effects have
been confined to individuals, instead of
to society in general.
Watch the career of the child who is
kicked and cuffed during the greater
part of his younger days— the days
that God intended to be filled with
sunshine and happiness and the joy of
living; the child who is made to feel
that he is only fit for drudgery and
grief; the child who is taught that
physical safety lies in cringing and
crawling before those whom the in
scrutable laws of nature has made his
parents or guardians; the child whose
quivering, upturned, tear-stained face
receives but sneers from those who
should give comfort: the child who
knows not a kiss or caress or word of
comfort or encouragement from those
who should always be near and dear;
the child who has it pounded into him
that he is inferior to the rest of the
world. That child has instilled in his
very being a fear of mankind, a fear
of the »orb!, that incapacitates him
for his fight for life in a world where
one rises to the top because another is
willing to remain below; because the
other feels his place is below. The one
who feels that his place is below is
the one who has lieen taught fear and
inferiority in the days when his na­
ture was being formed.
The man of mind is a peculiar thing
and it is unusual to find among the
leaders of men the boy who grew to
his majority humiliating himself and
cringing before his fellow beings.
How inspiring the story o f the
French soldier whose horse dropped
dead as he handed to the greatest
soldier o f modern times an important
dispatch that had been carried from
miles away. Napoleon wrote an an­
swer, dismounted from his own horse,
handed the bridle to the soldier, say­
ing, “ Take this horse and ride back,
comrade.” Gazing upon the beautiful,
splendid blooded animal and expensive
trappings, he humbly replied, “ It is
too magnificent and grand for me, a
common soldier.” Did Napoleon allow
him to cringe and humble himself in
the dust before the man whose ambi­
tion was to lie the ruler of the world!
No! Napoleon, to whom we may well
imagine human life meant little except
as it might serve him. understood hu­
man nature. “ Take it,” « he cried,
“ nothing is too grand and magnificent
for a soldier of France.”
And those tired- troops of his, wea­
ried from the tramp, tramp, tramp of
the march, longing for a sight of the
loved ones at home, sick of the cease­
less strife, battle-scarred and worn,
took new inspiration, new life, from
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fight and die they did, but the flag
of France floated triumphant over the
dead and wounded.
Ho teach the children to hold up
their heads and look the world in the
eye with a determination to wrest vie
tory from the fight or know the reason
why, and we will have a better,
stronger and more aggressive manhood
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON
ami womanhood. *
Teach them due deference, but not
humility.
Teach them to be gentle with the
weak, but ever hold before them the
saying, equally true as the one already
quoted, thirt “ God helps those who
help themselves,” and impress upon
them that in this old world the fight is
to those who assert their right to live
and have their being.
Teach them that the prizes o f life
are for those who reach out and grasp
them, not for those who eower, cringe
and shiver in some secluded corner.
To teach them these things you can
not kick and cu ff them about, you ean
not deny them those things that the
Creator intended they should have, you
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