The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 22, 1917, Image 2
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
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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.
"The science and art of human
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living have advanced much more
rapidly in the cities than in the
country. This applies to the immei
diate human environment in the
I country as well as to all habits of
< I lifp affpctiny hpalth. The farm house
is, on the average, less sanitary than
the city home. The rural school is
relatively the least healthful type of
j building in the entire country. The
! diet of the people in the country is
less hygienic, on the whole, than the
food of city dwellers. In general,
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' the standards of human living in the
cities, in relation to health, at least,
are superior to those in rural
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"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.
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' itual significance. A lecturer put
I my meaning magnificently the other
day when he said: 'The man who
i
I has nothing to die for is alread> cut
^ off from the living.' In my opinion
^ wars will not cease in the world until
men can get from a peace prori"??orr?mA
f como n mnl/n?Mnrr af Ua
I KiaiiHiic viic aaujc 4unrvciuu* ui 111c
spirit. May that day come soon."?
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