The Washington times., 1919-02-16
Study the Picture on the Right
First, Then Read What's Below

FIRST, Inen kedu WIIdL SD0IOW
It necessary to exaggerate in order to make TINS
mouse plainly visible If he had been made only me-size
ne would have been as small the little ball fastened to
4he toe of LIE FOOLS foot
But the smallest mouse born, the pine mouse
found at an altitude of fifteen thousand feet smallest NAM
nal living on earth much bigger than your little finger
1a is bigger than some of the intellectual mice that
ach to heavy steam rollers expecting the steam rollers
20 move.
Hitch your wagon to a star" said Emerson. Good
advice for those that have the right kind Of wagon and
can reach as far as the Good advice anyhow, for
1oys and girls in their teens who not yet hchng to
nyhng and are inspired by thinking about the star
though they may eventually push only their own wheel
5aTrows.
start ont bv all means with the idea of hitching to
star and to the biggest star sight But don't let the
TACT that you miss your hitch and the star by keep
you from htchng SOME good steady persistent task
something that you CAN do.
After you have htChed your to a steam roller
and found that he can't pull It, your mind being the mouse
Ind the steam roller being ambition too big for you
90 behind and you can't get job on the steam roller
rs engineer or fireman
Many man has thought that he was running the
country whereas he in reality only the good mechanic
3ung the throttle letting in the steam which is the power
IF all the people and making the big machine in
hat way.
Gray carefully writing and rewriting and over
gain his Eegy in Country Chmch1ard, thought he saw
many things beneath the sod.
For instance:
Some viLage HanpdeH that With daHHteSS breast
The little tyrant of his fields WthSt0Od;
Some mute ingoriouS Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiHLess>o of his couHtry'S blood.
There may be in village churchyards all the world
Millions Cromwels and Hampdens. There probably are
many that never had chance. If Milton as boy had
een starved children were starved in England to keep
ais body small and thin enough to through chin
aeys he had been sent out with grown chimney sweep
%on1ooV $6oro hSd
with soot instead of being sent to the great university to
ill his mind with knowledge, Milton might have died
blind old chimney sweep and been buried in poters field
If John Hampden, to, whom the Earl of Warwick
granted lands in Connecticut had to this country
and brought with him. he is alleged to have planned
doing Oliver Cromwell his first cousin the story of Eng
and might have been different Great Britain might be
Catholic instead Of Protestant In government German
royalties might have gone to England to rule And
Hampden and Cromwell might have been buried in some
Connecticut village churchyard after spending their lives
and energies fighting red Indians in the neighborhood de-
nCuncing the village supersons, or more probably help
There are buried and mouldering away potters field
and fashionable cemeteries nnumerable Hampdens and
oromwes Millions that had chance to write Napol
cons that had chance fight because they
had Rousseau to create revolution and Bonapare oppor
sunity. /
Some did nothing because they HAD nothing did not
know how to read could not know what the world
wanted what human brain could do-they starved
IN mind and body
Others did nothing because they had TOO much The
Of the father left money ruin them and they lie
In fine mausoleums, did King Mausous himself after
lives useful to because conditions made it
Sary for them to work think and they SELF
WINDERS
But return picture the mouse the steam roller
end Folly trying to drive.
The driver because he fool thinks that if he whips
hard enough the will pull the great machine The
mouse because he is mouse doesn't think at ALL per
hsps believes that he had his brother there help him
the two could pull it. You who look pity the and
blame the fool who in this picture represents pful con
Eeit so often mistaken for real ambition.
The Office Of newspaper editor is the best place to
study the and steam roller problem.
This is true first because the editor frequently