The Washington times., 1919-09-07
Don't Live I'm A Hole
Ground Moles Can't See the World; Neither Can Men
When They Refuse To Look About Them.

ally farmer eagle.
All of us have seen thousands of mole men; few have
seen eagle that really the world and works
from high viewpoint
This picture the artists suggestion to that they
come up out Of their holes and what the world is like
The series of pictures, well conceived by Mr.. McCay
tell their story, that your boy ten years old will
understand without explanation man comes a little
way out Of his hoe-mental, of course-he LITTLE
way around him If he up farther he farther
And, if he comes all the way up he sees all the way
around all Sides and is ready for real life and free
movement
The comparison of men with noes and eagles makes
Us realize how differently from animals planned If
the mole persuaded leave his underground residence
that would be the end of him He cannot see in bright
light his little feet with long claws are placed sidewise on
his body with the palms turned outward for swift digging
and he walks with difficulty the earths surface Cats
would get him. dogs would bite him. and he would starve
for lack of and he tried to live above ground
Nature planned him for life below in hole and there he
is useful
Preachers and other teachers used to say that the
of ALSO planned to live in hole They
were to be content with dull life in world hole of strug
gle and misery patiently waiting get by fine fight
through the clouds to heaven, later on
'Be patient now slave and do as you are told stay in
the hole in which the Lord put you just he put the mole
is the best place for you"
That was the ancient teaching but it is not the modern
idea The truth is in the text that tells you gain freedom
through knowledge The truth is also in the long struggle
that and nations have made to free the many from the
control Of few to get the millions out of the miserable
holes in which they have worked for the elect.
In material way much has been done to pull men out
Of the hole It longer crime to ask for more pay
or few hours in the day free from work Men are not
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they wandered from the parish the hole in which "fate
had placed them, to find work elsewhere.
Men that worked and died in dreadful holes called
sWeathops dreadng dismissal from their slave Jobs now
control their industry paid in day what they used
earn In week. and become independent if they choose
to exercise sef-controL
But what get for their pockets and their stomachs
does give them freedom get them of the mental
hole In which of live mole on nice lawn free
from mole traps with plenty to eat is physically as well off
as clOakmaker getting fOrtysx dollars week. brick
layer paid eighty cents hour farmer getting dollar
and half for instead of fifty cents merchant
piltng up profits
Like the mole man and his young ones can eat only
so much sleep in only one bed.
In fact wefed animal safely housed is better off
than mere rich man or wepaid worker The animal has
no mind or thought to bother him
The merely prosperous must occasionally realize
that his full bank account and full stomach nothing
and that while he does nothing for others and original
thinking for himself he amounts to little among real men
The holes in which men live are MENTAL holes in
which the body perhaps grows fat and prosperous but the
mind dwindles The average at fifty as free from
original thought a newborn infant
Instead of thought he has mental HABITS Instead of
truth and knowledge he has ancient statements learned by
heart.
'I have always been Democrat, I proud to say;
was born Democrat and I'll die Democrat" That is
one y with plenty of inhabitants In another hole the
saying the same with Republican in place of Demo
crat."
Take q thousand Democrats Republicans, ask EACH
WHY he is what he CALLS himself in politics. and you