The Washington times., 1919-03-09


burden and anxiety which should not be- and make
Of death terror when it ought to be relief release
reward and pleasant sleep?
Superstition fear hatred-those are the three black
cats that interfere with the normal pleasure of life
The Power that rules the world puts men on the earth
and Immediately they begin worry baby too young to
talk worries and shrieks when its mother leaves the room
thinking it will never come back.
Men full grown, millions of them, sometimes make up
their minds that the world is coming to end worry about
that sacrifice their property put on white ascension robes
and do not ascend.
Armies have turned back because black bird few
across the line of march, because the ntesnes of some
slaughtered animal examined by the wise man. did not give
8 satisfactory answer
Of all of the black cats that worry men with imaginary
evils the worst is fear It sits beside his cradle follows him
through life and often still sitting beside him. in this
picture, when life is gone.
Why should men fear? They are so small the earth on
which they live small and Of the universe
in which and its planets travel is unimportant
-nothing can happen that really matters.
Men fear death But they going to die. Why fear
that which is inevitable?
Men fear poverty Tens of millions of them are strug-
Cling with that fear in the United States now, and among
them included the richest men, struggling for for
fear they will not have quite enough at the last But fear
is than the poverty and poverty when it is
real thousand times than imaginary poverty.
The Power that is great enough to balance this little
earth in the ether flies along that great enough
control and guide endless millions of and planets
surey condescend torment tiny creatures
that has made imperfect too great and magnanimous to
plan for them anything unless it be final peace perpetual
progress.
Here In the picture lies a at the end of his rope
and the end of his life. The black cats sit and look at him
They have followed him through his days; he has
cOuaged them by not driving them away They sit for
while looking at him. Soon they will go away and select
master and a victim
There hundred that you could give to these
gTewsome animals with their green eyes, noseless tread
and many lives The worst of them is superstition which
makes men towards and brutal.
The next is fear, which makes weak and inefficient
Courage is ninety-fve per cent of success.
The third has many names-enVy, jealousy, ConCeit.
walked all his life with three black follow
ing him. knowing that they driving him unpleas
ant end and that they would sit beside his corpse after the
end he would try to get rid Of them.
If his told him they actually not real but
created by him. born and living only in his Imagination he
would try to correct the imagination denying the existence
or power of things unreal and make himself free man
Instead, worry through life and worry into DEATH
and black and formidable sit look at him when he
can see no longer They drive him out into the snow to-
sudden end sometimes, in this picture Sometimes they
land him In the potter field, and sometimes in fine mar
BILE monument.
Get rid of superstition, credulity, anxiety
In one hundred years nothing will matter In hun
dred years you won't be here.
You have few days years to do what little you
can do
Get rid of the cats