The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01
The Mileage of Man
Elasticity of the Mind Makes for Longevity and
Success in Life.

Not so with that other race course, HUMAN LIFE.
The big picture here shows the course we all must
travel round and round before we reach the winning posi-
the place worth while.
This is a particularly good cartoon because Of the
comparison with little picture below which shows now
the automobile tire manufacturer top OF his factory
tries out and tests thoroughly the tire that he VIII sell to
the public.
Among average human beings, all with few excep
tons that have reached middle life this picture
the road that they travelled The rough places the
swamp the high hill the difficult wall these they nave
crossed more than once.
For the automobile tire built with just two ideas dom
mating long wear and elasticity the real test is the rough
road, with sharp stones and ruts.
For the human being built and put into this world
with thousand ideas the great test educator and
proven is ADVERSELY.
Trying out an automobile tire is a complicated work
At the end of long shaft the tire placed ball bearings
with heavy weight upon it. The shaft turns at the rate
of fifty or sixty miles an hour-SPEED IN MOVING
DOUBLES AND TREBLEs THE WEAR
Some tires are defective travel few miles, blow up
that is the end of them Others go the full distance mile
after mile faithfully over rough and smooth Then THEY
out and the old rubber pile as we go to the old
graveyard
But all the testing of the automobile tire very simple
compared with the testing of that complicated
apparatus, the human being.
The tire is tested for the strength of its visible hand
made PHYSICAL qualities
YOU tested not for the wearing qualities OF your
feet the strength of your shoulders the power of your
the OF your nerves,
your lungs, although these all count In the long run
YOU tried out stones, swamps, hills and rough
walls to find the quality of something INVISIBLE
something that lives inside your mind.
There is quality in you you travel the round
of Hfe driven by Old Time like the tire in its test.
The quality which you resemble the tire of rubber
ELASTICITY. With the tire elasticity is in the rubber
With YOU elasticity is in the mind
You can crawl through the muddy bog Of your own
mistakes You climb the steep hills OF misfortune You
go down the other side and swim across the sgnant
pond of and hard luck you pick your way
through the thick woods Of Illness climb the steep wall OF
disappointment and travel the long stretch of hard luck
your spirit has that great quality, ELASTICITY
They say "You cannot keep good man down" That
is true literally for many good and better than
others highly successful have gone to oblivion beaten
failures. There is doubt of that
There webuit tires that strike sharp piece OF
glass explode and useful That is not the fault
of the tire There well equipped that misfortune
destroys That fault Perhaps they have another
chance EARTH believe perhaps they taken to
happy Eternal abode, where everything is smooth and
trials ended
For the average human being for the average auto
mobile tire the real test of worth the highway for the
tire and the road of life for the human.
The life journey that tests human material is not
merely trying trip with the motor tire it is also
race and the great thing is to KEEP GOING Just at
this moment young people that read this approaching
the swampy ground the left of the picture at the bottom
labeled Mistakes That swamp might well have been
labeled Summer Laziness" The warm weather the in
cnson do nothing the thousand good for NOT
doing anything all coming along with June July, and
August
Many write to the editor of this newspaper that
they discuss the Sunday cartoons and editorials with their
Among such fathers is included for instance, Mr.
ole Hanson, the fighting mayor of Seattle.
When he in the city few days ago. he mentioned
oand dozen of these Sunday editorials and cartoons
telling of the good effect that he believed they have the
country not of course because of any merit within them
selves but because they stimulate thought and develop pur
pose in young and women
This particular cartoon is especially well adapted to
discussion good picture for fathers and mothers talk
with their children You could say to the youngster
that misfortune IS steep hill But climbing hills in
the If the and hooIy