Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — Whoever Reaches Back Hardest Into the Past Will Go Forward Farthest Into the Future [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Whoever Reaches Back Hardest Into the Past Will Go Forward Farthest Into the Future

By President HADLEY of Yale

are few things so important and few so little underJ ' stood as the REAL USE OF TRADITIONS. Some peopie do not revere them at all; others revere them for their 4 sake and care for NOTHING BESIDES. The true man reveres them because they help to keep his IDEALS HIGH and hold them erect in life’s storms. The strongest tree is the one which drives its roots DEEPEST INTO THE GROUND. The taller the tree grows the harder its roots must take hold on the Boil. So it is with the life of a man. HE THAT DESIRES TO REACH FORWARD FARTHEST INTO THE FUTURE WHICH HE WOULD SERVE MUST ALSO REACH BACK HARDEST INTO THE PAST FROM WHICH HE HAS SPRUNG. All our great human institutions are attempts to realize this idea and to get men into these relations. A family has its associations and its traditions which make a man STRONGER for having brothers and sisters and infinitely stronger for being one of a line whose good name he is anxious to maintain.