The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-12-23
Not a Man in the U. S. Senate
Can Put His Toe in His Mouth

You are beginning to hear from two points of the
compass the wild winds of objection to the Government
ownership of those utilities which are designed to serve
ALL the people.
FROM Congress and from Wall Street what were at
first only indignant beezes becoming protesting blasts
you will look into the of these protests you
VIII ind that most Of them from old men, old
either in years or in the practice of captastc customs
You have seen baby active to the point of perpetual
motion and curious to the extent of attempting the most
extraordinary Investigations pick up its foot and without
any particular exeron put its pink toes into its mouth
you should ask United States Senator to put his
toe into his mouth he would tell couldn't be done
And so far as he Is concerned it couldn't
The reason the baby performs the impossible easily
is because its bones supple They yield readily to the
impulse of the youthful idea.
:, In few years that suppleness will be gone Lime,
the hardening element of the bones will have replaced the
more elastic materials and rgdity will have resulted
But you need not wait for time to perform its func
tons. You can hurry up the process
By the administering of drugs you have the bones
as hard at of twelve months they would naturally
be at three years and the yearod youngster will have
lost all interest in his natural inclination to nibble his
What happens to the baby's bones happens also to
the human mind. AS it naturally unnaturay grows
old it loses its fexbi of thought Ideas and processes
Of reasoning follow established grooves out of which they
are lifted only with great difficulty.
wagon IN rutted roadway will stay in the ruts
UNTIL IT Is PULLED OUT
So you the reason why the men old in years or
unnatuay old in thought because of the druggng effect
OF association with old ideas unable to see either the
wisdom or the desirabilty of Government ownership
Nor should there be too harsh criticism of the old
mind which will not recognize the NEW truth
Fortunately, this impassivity to ideas not so
common as it used to be- Events happen fast deve
opment is too rapid inventions too frequent and
discoveries too ncessan and the results from all of them
too plainly beneficial for any mind to ignore.
It took Copernious two hundred and fifty years to
convince the world of the truth of his theory of the revo
luton of celestial bodies.
When Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood
in the human body not doctor in hundred over fifty
years old would believe in it.
When DR.. Morton, dentist of Boston, found that
the inhalation of ether removed consciousness of pain he
was laughed at by the medical profession and his first
demonstration in the Massachusetts General Hospital was
scofed at.
The world believed that the universe stationary
that the blood stood still; that pain necessity.
The world wrong. It was young, virile active
RECEPTIVE minds that set it right by accepting what
later came to be the obvious
There is SOME value to the hating of those who falter
at ideas Job said days should speak and multitude
of years should teach wisdom" As the INDIVIDUAL
Confined in Lost celumn)