Illinois Magazine (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Illinois Magazine They were standing at the station waiting for the train that was to carry the soldiers away to the training camp - the boy a little stiff and self-conscious in his new uniform, the mother eager, proud, her hands clenched tight in an attempt to be calm and to conceal the pain of parting. The train pulled in, and the time for separation arrived. "Don´t be a slacker, Jim." the mother said as she kissed the boy good-bye, "Do your best; I´d rather you´d be killed than be a slacker." During all these months of war and preparation for war I have been trying to understand just what it means to be a slacker. Is it only in war that men are slackers when they shrink back from duty and danger, and sacrifice, and responsibility? Surely not. "Do you think I shall be looked upon as a slacker?" a junior asked me, "if I come back to college and finish my course? I am not old enough for the draft, and I am not sure that I could get in to the army if I were drafted." As I talked the matter over with him, it seemed to me that his not going to college would more surely prove him a slacker than his going. He saw very clearly that his duty was to finish his education; the more obviously heroic thing to him was to don a uniform. What he feared was public criticism, though he knew that with a completed education he could best serve his country. The slacker, as I see him. is a man who shirks an obligation; who is afraid of danger, and privation, and hard work; who refuses to respond to duty; who has a task assigned to him and who is satisfied to do it indifferently - or even to allow it to go undone. He is not confined to the army; he is found in every walk of life in college and out of it, in every community and in every profession. He is the immediate cause of policemen and proctors, and all other individuals and devices for checking up on the man who sees his duty and yet lacks the courage or the energy to do it. There never was a time in the history of this country, there never was a time in the life of colleges when the slacker was of less use and less likely to be tenderly handled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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