Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1918 — We Applaud the Under Dog Because of Our Experience [ARTICLE]

We Applaud the Under Dog Because of Our Experience

Our sympathies naturally travel the line of likes; that is, the things we feel in ourselves, we feel in others. We applaud the under dog, because we so often have been the under dog. We like to lift the other fellow up when he is down because we also have been down. Sympathy starts at home —or else it isn’t sympathy. Your periodic moods of failure and disappointments are your Under Dogs, in the opinion of George Matthew Adams, a writer for Good Housekeeping. So instead of walking past these Under Dogs of yours and casting no sympathy their way, pause to give them your heart and your hope, and soon the picture and fact wiU be your Over Dogs—your victories and your genuine achievements. Courageously cheer the Under Dogs of your experience and stay proudly by them until their fight becomes a factor of your kingship.