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VIGOR HAS DECLINED ASSERTS ADM FiSKE. YOUNG MEN HAVE NO SERIOUS PURPOSE THESE DAYS. BUT WOMEN HAVE IMPROVED. "The nation has become effemin ate. George Washington would nol know us, and Gen Grant would b< shocked to see the difference in man ne:r and carriage between the younp men of today and the young mer that marched behind him fifty years ago. Uncle Sam,who typifies our na tion, has become effeminate, too. Ir the family of nations he has beer growing less like a big he-man thar a perfect lady; less an Uncle Sair ' ? * ? . i^i: L.IL um.ii aii Aum Hiiiz,aueui. "We have yielded to the pleasures of the senses and of the appetites,tc the pleasures of soft beds, beautiful houses and gently rolling automo biles; to physical indolence, sweet music, silk stockings and kid gloves; to fashionable society, golf and French novels; in aword.toluxury." This vigorous indictment of the young men of America was presented by Rear Admiral Bradley A Fiske at a dinner given by members of the Lotus club of New York to Major General Leonard Wood. The charge has come from time to time from nc lesr exalted sources and perhaps the mast striking thing about it is its similarity to the accusation of effeminacy and decadence brought againsl the men of France before August, 1914. How France has answered it we know. And I am one of those whc belle# that the men of the Unitec States would rally to the call of e just war with the same valor. <Yel Prof Thos D Wood, director of physical training in Columbia university, told me that there is much in oui national life to justify the Fiske in dictment, ' The aims of American life foi the last fifty years have been peace, security, comfort, pleasure," Di Wood told me in his office in Teachers" College. "There is a spiril among certain groups of our young men?and among our young women, too?of living without serious pur pose, merely to be amused. J doubt," the professor added, smiling hopefully, "if George Washington and Gen Grant would be quite sc much impressed with the deterioration of American youth as Admiral Fiske seems to fear. Perhaps the admiral generalized a little too much from his observation of special groups. Alter all,the class which car buy softly rolling automobiles, kid gloves,silk stockings.&c.is limited ir number. If the deterioration were a deterioration of wealth alone we need not be pafticularly concerned about it. "But in time of war the strength of this nation must be drawn from the country. And it is the country which has deteriorated since the civil war. There are no statistics relating to the physical vigor of the young men of the sixties as compared with the young men of today. My opinion is that while our individual athletic performances of the last decade have exceeded all feats of which we have any authentic record in human history,the physical average is lower than it was fifty years ago. "Among our young women, on the contrary, the physical average ? has risen,and I think we must credit the example of the college girl and her ideals of outdoor life with this improvement." "Why have the young men of rural America declined in vigor?" I asked Dr Wood. "Before I answer that question," replied the physical director of Columbia, "I must remind you that while tee young men from the farms passed better examinations at the time of the civil war, it was found that the men from the cities had more staying power, greater endurance, Since that time much of the best human stock has moved from the farms to the cities. 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In general, r ' the standards of human living in the cities, in relation to health, at least, are superior to those in rural I American. i | j "The religious life and faith of the people are today weakening, or, ' at least, changing rapidly in the country as well as in the cities. In cities, however, the idea and habit of social service are providing a I partial substitute for tbe religious life of the past. Among the most hopeful develop' ments of our times are the Boy . ' Scouts, the Junior Police and similar , associations which instill the social spirit in children. "The social ideals of our people have been changing likewise. In Gen Grant's time," Dr Wood added, _ "there was no farm with three or four boys on it that did not hope to give one son to the ministry, to medicine, to the law or to the bench, today the boy on the farm dreams of getting rich. He has not the mental ambitions of his grandfather." At this point in Dr Woods remarks ' I could not help thinking of an epigram uttered at a judicial dinner in New York recently. "In former I times we spoke of a struggling lawyer wnu grew up uecame a great judge, but today we speak of a struggling judge who grows up and becomes a great lawyer." If [ the farmer's son dreams no longer of winning distinction at the bar it may be because the law has lost its personality, if not its soul, and become merely a part of the great ma' chinery of corporations. a "I cannot deny that there has t been a softening of American fibre," 'r Dr Wood concluded earnestly. "This is the inevitable result of years of peace, of financial prosperity which ^ has made the individual struggle for existence less severe. I believe that this softening would disappear in the stress of war, if war must come. > Who speaks of the decadance of I France today? There is in war a fMirimia pdnpfitinn vifaliyincr snir. ? , , wK.. ' itual significance. 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