Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — WE’RE ON THE TEAM; WE’RE IN THE GAME; WE’RE OUT TO WIN [ARTICLE]

WE’RE ON THE TEAM; WE’RE IN THE GAME; WE’RE OUT TO WIN

By A. ALONZO STAGG

Famous Athletic Coach University of Chicago. I said to a friend recently that I had not felt so poor in 34 years, or since I was a freshman at Yale working spy way through. ‘‘Well, don’t you think wd ought all of us to feel poor these days?” was the reply. That Is just the point. We ought. If we don’t feel on the strain most of the time those days I doubt whether we are doing our full duty in helping win the war. My observation is that we never accomplish much in this life without being dead in earnest, without hard work and without self-sacrifice, and I can’t figure out how we can win this war without all of us co-operating most generously along these lines. First of all, unless we feel dead in earnest about our winning the war there Is something wrong with us and it were better that a mill stone were hanged about our neck and we were drowned In the depth of the sea. No one will wbrk hard and make personal sacrifices unless his heart Is in the enterprise. The beautiful part of this affair is that we can all be In it —we are all on the big team with a chance to play the game to our limit. At present we must play the particular position which is assigned to us, and play it for all that is in us whether we like our job or not. „ Thtt main thing and the loyal and the patriotic thing Is that we give to our utmost of time and energy and money. Putting the fourth Liberty Loan across means that each one of us must give that uttermost of time and energy and money. We’re on the team, we’re in the game, we’re out to win. Now let’s get down under It and root and lift and boost until we cross the goal line.