The Washington times., 1919-01-19
st. Mark, 9Th Chapter


soul carrying around corpse the soul being the mind
the corpse the body in which lives moving while the soul
In In it, dead and inert when the soul leaves
Aristotle, who the noblest thinker, as marcus
Alreius the nobest ruler said: tne spr ike the
body, grows old
Having in your mind three texts-one from the Bible,
one from the Roman Emperor and one from the Greek
philosopher study this picture 1t shows you NE as IT
starts the soul dominating and life ends the SOUL
like the body grown old, and the end OF the long
journey. dragging its corpse.
This picture of childhood is taken from poster adver
tisinr Maeterncks play "Betrotha the little picture
of old added to tell the rest OF the story When
in this country the little boy turns out great success
and the newspapers print his picture when ne dies and
o. tell how he got his first dollar.
The world presents sadder contrast than the one
shown in this picture.
The boy Sees enjoys and possesses all the beauty Of
the world the sky the wide universe outside His mind
il fresh and free noble and pure. His imagination, un
tammeled travels with the wind that blows the clouds He
lives despite his poverty human beings undoubtedly
were live and will live day. In his youth all
Is happiness and hope and in his old age If it were the
right kind he could finish and lie down to the long sleep
saying with David The Heavens declare the glory of God
and the armament showeth His handiwork."
Look at this boys face though you may be old and
tired yourself you know of what he deaming you re-
member your own dreams.
You see the the bottom of the picture and you
know that this boy in American civilization is headed
for an old age like that of this old man. still,
win be of the cogs in the machine through which this
for old age like that of this old men, worse still
Look this picture be warned and fight to get your
freedom Save yourself from poverty by control and
while you young For poverty is the worst Of
all curses since it means slavery
And yourself the fate which, next to poverty,
is the worst that Of the old who began this boy
begins, and ends with only thought how to keep and
how to get
Fight for your freedom and try to keep your mind
young enjoy it. The earth is yours if you will have it
So and all the thoughts the mental freedom given to the
world By great minds yours written in the books and
free at the Libraries.
He who the world intelligenty the hills the
clouds the sunshine the beauty of the sky night who
read nteigenty and share the thoughts of great
that live in books say truly: II mans slave
commands me, yet what eat, and he is the
happy man
You the bitter criticism civilization that this
picture presents You must also the other sde and
know that the human and its welfare like the welfare
OF single individual, must be judged whole No
separate person epoch tells the story.
There beautiful islands in the ocean, palm trees
and flowers grow upon them sunshine happy life are
there They rest coral reefs that gradually built
through thousands of centuries by tiny work
ing below the water in the dark knowing that they
were laying the foundation of beautiful island
The old man in the picture has worked in the dark
mesny like of those builders of coral reef He has
not known it, but he in his bank his factory his money
saving his oppression of the poor perhaps his heartles
ness has been building the foundation of future
nfcent civilization It will come, it will justify the sacr
dee of all Of the lives and all the happiness the trans
formation Of youth that you shown this picture into
'dwarfsd and dwindled, mean old age.
There little left of this old man about to dron
into the grave and leave his money But there is great
deal left live after his forgotten and his heir.
squandered his savings.
If he has built factories, they will provide work and
material for thousands he has appropriated an in
yenon and swnded the inventor he has developed the
mad and
what the inventor could not do.
If he has monopolized the wealth of the soil of in