The Washington times., 1917-10-16


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The little creature your right standing the big
cheese, says: I the happiest in all this wide
creation In all directions cheese. I stand it,
breathe it. smell it, shall find unlimited happiness in it.
Pity the that must struggle for his cheese perhaps
go weeks without it. Here live and here die blissfu1y
happy I-happiest of mice past present. and future"
Come around in half an hour and you will find one of
the sickes looking you His little stomach will
be tremendously distended he will be very uncomfortable
very miserable and when there noise at the pantry
door he will scute heavily into his hole full of agony
because be take the cheese with him. Down in the
hole he will suffer the penalties for eating too much cheese
and thinking that happiness consists in sng YOURSELF
tiny does not matter much His life is short he
Is father mother when he is only few weeks old At
best he is nuisance his seshness foolish thoughts
unimportant
great many MEN, standing on their cheese of gold
thinking that they Gown the millions that they do not
need and cannot very much like this little
his cheese
"How happy am II says the man who has piled up
money that can do no good for him. but might do much
good to others.
NO matter where look see money and can get it.
feel it, live it, breathe it, stand it, and made
great and mighty by the heights to which raises Now
am going to be truly happy having got so much more than
I have any need for
But there noise at the door of the pantry that
we call hfe That tidy housemaid Miss Death is coming
In to sweep out trash.
Down into his hole in the graveyard goes the too rich
man, the went into his hole in the pantry.
And as the experienced agony because he could
not take HISheese with him. the human gold that
his graveyard hole yawng before him is full of agony
because he must leave the golden cheese behind him.
Naked, and owning nothing, he into the world.
Naked except for shroud and added gray
hair he goes out of the world and nothing goes out with
hmnot good reputation if he has felt toward his
money as the selfish mouse felt toward his cheese.
great scientist said that beyond question there in
this universe beings far above the most intelligent man
as that man is far above a black beetle
In the eyes of such beings perhaps nhabitng the great
and planets with which cannot talk the little
his cheese of gold is unmportant this
little mouse in the picture is unimportant to you.
What we think what do how selfish altru-
stic, makes probably very little difference in the cosmc
scheme of things in which earth million times smaller
within vew and entire solar system small
atom In one little corner of infinite space.
NEVERTHELESS you would say to this mouse on his
cheese Even you are only mouse, try to have self
respect whistle squeak and call the other mice help you
eat that which you can't eat.''
And Wisdom above says to the human gold stand
ing his cheese of gold: You amount to little but anyhow
have the decency whistle squeak and call your poorer
fellow human beings to help you that for which you have
and which you cannot possibly take into your grave
yard hole with you"