The Washington times., 1919-05-02
Draw this picture in your mind:

Draw this picture In your mlno:
wagon is heavily loaded with twenty or more human
beings Traces are bound to the front axle Of the loaded
wagon and fastened to the OF young man That
man WITH ONLY HIS OWN STRENGTH could not pos
sibly pull the load He could not move it.
But in front of the young stands big carefully
trained elephant For that elephant able to pull three
freight cars the load is nothing
The elephant is hanessed and the traces fastened to
his powerful shoulders united in SOFT carefully cush
iOned pad at the back of the performers neck
When all is ready the partner of the man mtched to
the wagon gives the order to the elephant the big ami
NAL should move too rapidly, he should fail to start
slowly and gently he might possibly break the performer
neck
But intelligent as well powerful the big beast leans
slowly forward until he has set the wheels Of the
rolling then goes along at a slow walk, PULLING THE
NAN, who In his turn pulls the wagon.
It may seem almost unbelievable that could
stand this strain upon the back of his neck and that with
the muscles of his he could pull this heavily loaded
wagon, with the elephant pulling HIM
But there is difficulty about it. Any young of
ordinary strength could perform this feat-the principal
thing to have the IDEA and to realize how fascna
ing would be to the public to watch the elephant pulling
the by the neck, and the pulling wagon and
twenty human beings with his arms.
If at play in tug-of-war you have pulled against a
number OF other men, you know that the muscles of the
body are capable Of WITHsTANDNG a strain much
greater than that which they capable of EXERTNG
For instance you have in your nerves and muscles
and in the leverage Of your body power enough pull one
thousand pounds you could easily pull as this man does
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dragging you
The only thing necessary is to have the elephant
hitched up in front TO DO THE PULLING.
Take away the elephant and the harness back of the
mans neck and you would see, apparently, marvellous
thing. You would slightly built young man pull
ing twenty If you saw this without seeing the elephant
the elephant and his harness were made invisible and
you this young walking around drawing such al
loadyou would believe in miracles or believe that the
man had some force above humanity. ri
Many gets the credit for pulling load that he
is not pulling at all.
You may the salesman the editor the floor walker
the engineer the archect-any kind of man engaged in
any kind Of work-apparenty doing something very won
derfuI
Yet he is not doing it ALL An unseen power-another
man, another brain, perhaps little man with small
body and big head who keeps out of Sights doing the
real work
Many of Us have elephants-big strong but unseen
pulling u.s. We ought at least to be grateful to the ele
phantgVe him fair chance-snce he does the hardest
wOrk-and do our part big little in the general per-
fOrmance.
It would be good thing if many young men working
IN all departments of activity in America should occasion
ally feel gratitude toward the big elephant the big MAN
the whose power and experience pull along and do
what they to encourage him. to deserve his heu and
the benefit that they get from his pulling.
Every one of US WITHOUT EXCEPTION is PULLED
along or PUSHED ahead by some force unseen
may be the in the inside Office usually invisible
10y N0 VIC "OHlo1 al uOAe SeCGug gooo example,
giving to the at work the inspiration and the power
that else could give
It may be paternal affection enabling man to do for
weak child what he could not possibly do for himself
Very often the power that has long disappeared
from the earth father mother whose energy and in
aton persist and do in the life of the son at work what
the elephant does in this picture.
We are all of pushed pulled all of us indebted to
q power above our own and beyond our own
And we should ALL at least be grateful from the small
clerk who made secure protected in his daily living by
man working himself to death at the head of the firm to
the man Of genius called who owes the power that the
world sdmres to mother unseen and unremembered
Don't forget the elephant that pulls you; BE CRATE
FUL In this way you can add to your force and per-
hsps in time become the power that shall pull others