The Washington times., 1919-10-03

We Only Knew 1t They Cannot Harm Us In the Least.
The other day one Of the elephants in the New York
refused to obey the orders Of his keeper and would not
mind the command TO until "a attendant brought
tiny trap containing small Then the elephant
umpsng his terror obeysd the commands Of his keeper
without hesitation,
savage unCivlized and with little reasoning power,
had he this exhibition would have Immediately said:
The mouse great animal The elephant which would
not obey the man. is ruled By the mouse. Therefore viii
not respect the the elephant but viii worship the
mouse
Of course you know and viii say that the savage would
Be ell wrong that he ought worship man. mouse OF
elephant but the Maker Of all three and that any respect
had to show TO Of the trio should be to the man
Of course the the elephant Obeyed was because
be afraid FEAR made him throw his trunk Ia the air
and make loud noise to the other elephants that dan
ger was threatened
Nobody knows why an elephant is afraid Of q mouse
There theory that in the jungle mice up the inside
O the elephants trunk while he is sleeping but this is
probably not true since the elephant could easily expel the
little rodent if such thing happened
The real reason les doubtless in the fact that the great
beast has effective way Of fighting the little Ons The
speed Of the than makes up the lack Of size BE
can rings around the elephant and keep out Of his way
indefinitely.
Of course, there real reason for the fear the
elephant displayed
# be had inst ignored the mouse nothing would have
happened him. at least far the was concerned
But the elephant was like men and women. BE mag
mhsd what was no danger at all into great disaster.
We al have our mice that we allow to frighten rs and
keep u from doing what We would like TO do. Let con-
Edsr two Of them.
FAILURE We are au afraid Of not sccomplisbinpl
fore and probably cannot be accomplished" and stop
our efforts
That thing vas never done before is all the more rsa
son Why should strive all the harder to do it now
Il the Wright boys had been afraid Of the Failure
mouse American would not have flown across the
another last week have gone six miles into the
air away from the earth bringing back with him from
space never visited before.
Don't be afraid Of Failure Just say, "It's oaly al
mouse. and 60 ahead with your planning
CRITICISM is another mouse.
How many times have you been kept from doing some
thing yOu thought right and proper to do because of
what you thought people would say?
Of course public opinion is and should be great nfu
ence when it is the opinion Of the majority Of THINKING
Public opinion is reflected in the laws Of the country
and disObedience to them is properly criticised.
But there thousand things lawful and right which
We refrain from doing for fear somebody viii make unnd
comment
yOu sure you doing right, don't be afraid Of
what anybody says
II you are right everybody viii shortly come to vour
way Of thinking and doing.
The one thing the elephant should have been afraid of
was not the mouse the man, but the mans BRAIN
It is the thinking power Of the man that makes him
master and gives him dominion the fish of the sea and
over the fowl Of the air and over every living thing that
mOveth upon the earth"
Il was the thinking power Of the keeper that made him
use the mouse to conquer the elephant.
Il was his thinking power that kept the man from
sharing with the elephant the fear of the mouse
Il is our thinking power, properly applied that will
keep from being afraid Of any real seeming enemy and
assure overcoming any opposition however great
Learn how to think Study the thoughts of other men
Avail yourself Of the knowledge they gained from their
thinking
You are living in the greatest age the world ever saw
Back Of you the minds Of millions Of men and
whose wisdom has been written down in books that
you can have for the asking.
All they did and all they found ont is yours
You can know about astronomy than Herschel for
they have discovered new worlds since he died
You can know more about chemistry than Davy for he