The Washington times., 1919-09-28
Big Things Become Little
Objects Which Are Near to Us Obscure Big and
Important Things That Are More Remote.

4e raises Une the washington
NOON.
If you stand close to the monument and look up with
che the other sde the big thing to be the
monument; the is only small bright disc about as
Big dinner plate That is how It looks in the first
picture this page Go back few blocks in the second
piCtUre The monument is smaller little farther back
It is still smaller. At last in the seventh picture Of the
sses you 60 backward the trees in the park almost
hide The from your sight; it shows tiny,
sharp point against the surface Of the moon.
IN al the pictures while the monument becomes
smaller and less important the moon retains the same size
At last Mr. McCay shows the moon as it would look
IL yOu could travel thousands Of miles through space
and get closer to it. From that position Of course the
Washington Monument would be invisible.
you could 60 still farther through the cold ether that
surrounds earth and land the moon, you would find
that the thing which in Washington looked like shining
gold dinner plate back Of the Washington Monument is
gigantic sphere little earth.
Standing on the moon and looking back to the earth
above you would feel that the the big thing and
the earth only very large in the sky placed there
apparently 70 light up the moon.
The idea Of the artist in making this picture is to i'm
press upon the fact that allow for distance and
for time IL everything.
To the little boy in the street the policeman with his
club represents the highest power.
10 Grown men, the individuals and events nearest
are biggest and most important
Farmers have theOry-false- the eye Of the horse
mRQues that man looks to the horse ten times as big
hsTy IS and therefore the horse in terror Obeys the
mind magniaes things close both pleasant and m-
pleasant things
Calamity that seems to tower above gigantic and over
shadOWng only very big because like the Washing
ton Monument in the first picture, it is very IF
could realize that we should be much happier.
could realize also that the particular thing for
which they sUggle-mOre money nOtOrety for them
selves finer clothing, bigger house-is really small thing
made bigger by its neaTnes lot Of wasted effort would
be saved.
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dozen natonaities- generals and sdmirals. This war
viii fade away thousands of others have faded and still
Alexander Caesar and Napoleon win stand out the three
great ones.
We praise our Statesmen; we select one in each gener
alton and print his picture with Washington on one side
Lincoln the other Two three hundred years hence
Washington and Lincoln founder and preservsr Of the
country VIII stand out, and the other statesmen whose
pictures have been put between the two will look like the
Washington Monument to man on the moon.
The painter, musician or poet is admired in his day
admirers and hattsrers ten him how great he is BE win
die and be buried his work with him, and Beethoven
Michael Angelo and Shakespeare will stand out others
having passed into inVisibility
thousand men have started their little religions:
millions have followed and called them greatest leaders
Thsy melt away and the really powerful leaders that we
call pagan-MOhammed, GOtama, Of the Buddhists, and
0OfuCius the great teacher Of China t teach cviza
lion newsstand out above the others.
Gotama dWels in bliss according to his disciples wait
ing for the next incarnation earth he viii be recog
zed when he arrives because at birth he win sit suspended
il the air. with nothing holding him and deliver speech
That may you but his religion has more followers
by far than any other religion earth even the religion
which the majority Of highly civilized beings accept as the
only true religion.
If you stood face to face with the discrimination to
commit suicide and end miserable Gfe how appalling
Ind overwhelming the thing would be- You would feel that
you could escape that cloud But scores Of the best
nOWn greatest most useful have gone through that
experience have msdtated and decided upon suicide con-
Vnced that hfs vas not worth while and that they never
could do anything with e. They went ahead with life and
before long their work looked IS big as the moon would
few feet sy and the that prompted suicide had
faded into fhs background, almost forgotten
Amme mea and women 81 Jewish blood who have
contributed 90 much % Ee W0d'g prosperity and thought