The Washington times., 1918-10-20
Not Too Much, Not Too Little
Cast Up Your Balance and See How You Stand
On Life's Ledger.

CARTOON this one for instance is intended to make
Won look at a thing, and think about the thing
First you look then think then read-and soon you
know more.
grows with exercise, and dies without it
Too much is disastrous too little is disastrous; Aris
totle said IT, every act of our life proves it.
The sentimental admires big eyes and tiny
Outhin the object of his alteration. But that object
had eyes as big around coffee cups and mouth as small
as guinine pill the sentimental youth would run terror TOT
had bundle Of hair thick Shetland pony he would
say, Introduce me to some other young lady"
Youth sdmires very small hands and fest In woman
That is foolish for with good sized hand and foot woman
possesses power that she transmit to her children The
mother Of charlemagne who had fine boy is the Bertha
t'The Shows of Yeteryear The foolish person who ad
res tiny feet and hands would be mortified he saw a
young lady with hands and feet actually the size OF three
year-old baby.
Tartsr sayages when they conquered China squeezed
the feet Of the Chinese girls that they remained always
at three yearold ze-but that to keep them from
running away in the beginning and thsy turned to admire
it afterwsrd
So much for the trivial side Of too much and too little
Arstotles teaching is valuable, in the most serious
For nssnce the Prusssns boasted of their discipline
and they possessed the discipline.
All the way from the top to the bottom from the Kaiser
On his throne TO the sweeping the gutter there was dis
pne-Eank absolute submission to the one Immediately
above.
It was too much discipline and when the Kaiser said
Now We start 70 conquer the world" everybody started
incu6nr the Social Democrats who were talking interns
tional hsudship and hatred Of wsE:
But the too much there and they marched with the
others Now they know what mistake it was.
If there hadn't been too much discipline in Prussia,
soabe amount Of obedience the war wouldn't have started
millions Of lives and billions Of money would have been
saved
In Russia great half European half Asiatc monster to
east Of Prussia there little discipline Prussia had too
much, Russia too little
In the middle Of the war; when the salvation Of Russia
demanded concentrated devotion to one thing the undis
cipined crowd suddenly said 1--WE have had enough Of
this" They killed the Gar then began killing each other
and they are still busily engaged at that
II they had had a little discipline not 700 much and
attention.
What applies to Russia and Prussia applies to the lit
tie boy girl your child that you are bringing up.
With too little discipline the child never learns con-
cetraon secontro it finds out too late that there
must be discipline in life, and the child becomes
failure.
Too much discipline crushing the childs originality
forcing into that you map out IN advance means
that the chld mind viii not grow-Ognaty that alone
makes life worth while, viii be crushed
Discipline for children be blessing, discipline for
children can be Any physical violence is brutal
woman who beats child should climb up tree and
live with the monkeys The monkeys had excuse They
couldn't tank and could only teach with blows
Too much discipline ruined Germany. Too little dis
cpne ruined Russia Too much or too little viii ruin your
chld-a heavy responsibility for parents.
There is miser in his old age counting money that
does him no good shiverng for fear he will lose it. hating
the grave because must separate him from his treasure
Too much economy and saving there
And there's man born rich ending his days In the
pOorhouse he sits on the bench looking Hsessly at the
ground remembering days when he had everything and a
preated nothing regreng when regrettng does good
telling another pOorhOuse inmate how, such and such
occasion he spent and threw away enough to keep him
comfortable for the rest Of his life
Too little economy there Too much love of money
makes the heart hard and cold, life dull Too little
for money makes old age miserable and youth ridiculous
Beware Of the too much and the too little you make
plans for work for saving for economy and spending
Too much caution is cowardce Go too far the other
way, and that is foolish reckessness.
Just now, with the exaggerated fear Of Influenza fright
enng the population causing hygtera remember to avoid
too much fear and too much carelessness,
The who worries turns white every time he coughs