The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-05-07

you live in the suburbs you devote perhaps two hours
zach day to travel Two hours per day means practically
bne-ffth Of your active life.
How many readers make any of those two hours
and feel each day that they have been well spent?
Instead of being wasted those hours should be among
your best. Never mind you clinging to strap be-
you are tired and weary when the day is ended The
tired brain often thinks better than the fresh one And man
while hanging head down. ought to have trouble think
ing as he hangs from his strap-head up.
Some in the cars play cards as they travel homewar
Others talk gossip and tens of thousands waste too much
time on this and other newspapers.
Try this experiment. Make up your mind to devote
your hours of travel to thinking The BRAIN like the muscles
needs definite and well planned exercise 1t must be method
zeal and regular There is no limit to its possible results
You would be glad spend your two travelling hours in
gymnasium wheels Make of your homeward car mental
gymnasium Each night morning take up some one line
Of thought and follow to its end-or far your mind
take you Learn to observe to study to reflect Don't
look at your fellow calves look at each other
on the way to the slaughter house
Look as human being at other human beings. There
they sit stand hang Some chatter others scow fret
fume complain brag grin otherwise express the strange
emotions that US here.
They are all ghosts Carlyle tells you imprisoned for
time in coverings Of hesh and car packed full OF real
ghosts passing the earth their quick journey to the
grave ought to stir you.
The negro with tired black face resting for the next
days savery-slavery wage basis but slavery all the
Possibly you do not admire his thick lips But those
lips carved every sphinx in Egypts sand and you
negro before the days of the Pharaohs laying the founda
lions of your religion and locating the stars in heaven At
that time your forbears bberng avages sharp
ening and gnawng flesh When you the
the opposite seat the stared who has gone down
in the human while have gone think about him.
study him. speculate his ultimate end-and own
Don't merely say yourself: Thats plain negro, and
60 chewing gum.
The pictures that fash by your windows should help
you to think
The train rumbles the switches, and in the dusk
swinging lantern tells you that man Is at work. guiding
you safely when your work is done. Cant you take an
interest in that human atom representing the Power that
swings our tiny in space lighting our journey
toward the constellation Hercules?
black steepe is outlined against the dark blue sky Of
the evening That finger of stone built by to point
everastngy toward Infinite Power. It now points up
ward" In twelve hours-as the earth slowly urnst will
be pointing downward" But there is upward down
ward in the carpentry of the universe In the
hours as it turns round with the EARTH that seepe points
toward all the of space and constantly it points
toward Eternal Wisdom and Justice In every corner
This is tiresome? ALI right, then we'll stop But
whether we tire or interest you, remember:
As man thinks so he grows Think, study, use all the
hours that separate your crOupy cradle from your gloomy
grave Those hours are few.