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automobile, the predigested foods - without the cocktail parties -

without the late hours and without the hours of idleness, the very
things that are "softening up" our enlightened civilization. The
foreign born parent is a strict disciplinarian. The boy must wark
and contribute to the family income.

When college days come up the so-called poor boy who has
been fed on coarse but wholesome foods and has been forced to labor
throughout the day and into the night sometimes for a bare existence
is the fit subject for the so-called illegal athletic scholarship, be-
cause he is tough enough to stand the football racket and our average
American born cannot take it. We have softened up.

When two boys of the so-called upper crust meet the salu-
tation is generally, "let's have a party." But, when two husky boys
from the farm or the mine meet generally the first words are, "let's
wrestle." The struggle appeals to the rugged.

I repeat, "We cannot bury our mistakes." The so-called
illegal athletic scholarship carries many scars far beyond the
academic hall. This pseudo-giant, this boy with a bulging chest and
sometimes a flat forehead, (figuratively speaking) receives financial

rewards far beyond his earning power during the days of his under-