Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — Playing the Man. [ARTICLE]

Playing the Man.

No matter what part he may be playing in the strenuous game of life as it is presented today, the brotherhood man, above all others, must play the man. These are times when the best that ls“ iif tis must be given to “carry on,” and the race run with steadfastness and a manly purpose. As Robert L. Stevenson so beautifully puts it: “Whether we regard life as a line leading to a dead wall—a mere bag’s end, as the French say—or whether we think of it as a vestibule or gymnasium, where we wait our turn and prepare our facilities for some more noble destiny; whether we thunder in a pulpit or pule in little esthetic poetry books about its vanity and brevity, whether we look justly for years of health and vigor, or are about to mount into a bath chair, as a step towards the hearse; in each and all of these views and situations there is but one conclusion possible; that a man should stop his ears against paralysing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.”