Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-11
Be Grateful to the Power
That "Pulls" You Along
Man Believes He Is Pulling Big Load When He Sim
ply Harness and Another and Bigger Power Is
Pulling Him

Draw this picture in your mind
A wagon Il heavily loaded with ty

LY HIS OWN STRENGTH could possibly pub th load liz
could
But in young stands big carefully trained
elephant For elephant able pull three freight the
load is nothing
The elephant ishanessd and the fastened TO his
eru carefully cushioned pad at the
back of the performer neck
al ready the partner Of The pitched the
on gives the order elephant the big animal should
move too rapidly slowly gently he
might possibly break the performer neck
But intelligent as powerful the big beast slowly
until he has the wheels Of the rolling then
goes along at slow walk PULLING THE MAN who in HIS
turn pulls the wagon
It may seem almost unbelievable could stand
strain upon his neck that with the of his
arms he could pull this heavily wagon
plant pulling HIM.
But there difficulty Any young ordi.
nary could perform this the principal thing
have the IDEA fascinating would be the
public the elephant pulling the by the neck and the
man pulling wagon twenty human beings with his
at play in tug you pulled against
YOU know that the muscles Of the body
bic of WlTHSTANDlNG much greater that which
the, are capable Of EXERTING
For instance you have your nerves muscles aud in
your body power enough pull thousand
pounds YOU could easily pull this does several times
much if there power ahead you dragging YOU
The only thing necessary 10 have the elephant hched up
in front TO DO THE PULLING
Take away The elephant and the back
neck and you would apparently. marvellous thing You
would slightly built young pulling twenty If you
this without seeing the elephant the elephant
harness made invisible and this young walk
around drawing such load you would believe
o believe that the had force above humanity
Many gets the credit for pulling load that he
pulling all
Many seems 0 doing something very wonderful
when reality another man ANOTHER MIND not visible ia
the work but actually the work does the heavy pulling
You may the salesman the floor walker en-
the achitec-any kind of engaged any kind
work apparently doing something very wonderful
Vet he is not doing all An unseen another
another BRAN perhaps little with small body and
big head who keeps ont of sight is doing tae real worb
Many have elephants bg strong but unsecn-ptllng
We ought at least % be grateful to the elephant mn
hardest work-and part
big little the general performance
It would be a good thing II many young working in all
departments Of activity America should occasionally feel
udc toward the big elephant the big MAN the whose power
and experience pun them they
him to Gs his Up and h, benefit that they his
pulling
Every Of VI, WITHOUT EXCEPTION is PULLED along
PUSHED ahead b, force
Il ma, be the man u tho inside office usually invisible
Il may be the home setting good example Civ
the work the inspiration and power that no
else could
II may be patcrnal affection enabling man TO do for
weak child what he could possibly for himself
Very often the that has long disappeared
the earth father q mother whose energy inspiration
persist and do the life Of the work elephant
does in this picture
We all OF pushed pulled all o u, indebted 10
power above aud beyond
And should be grateful from the small clerk
who is made protected IN his dali, living BY
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