The Washington times., 1919-04-27
The greatest force in the world is hope and the

The greatest force in the world hope and the rain
bow represents it. The rainbow follows rain, as hope fol
lows dscoursgement Our fathers in that bow con
tanning all coors visible eyes only the Bibles promise
that no food would again be sent to drown the world
and all its creatures except family and pair each
Of the animals To the modern mind the rainbow typles
the unlimited possibilities of the human imagination work
ing upon the unlimited OF this planet Next to
the Bible story about the rainbow the Oldest story most
beautiful and full of meaning tells Of the pot filed with
gold to be found at the ranbows foot The idea pehap
was originally Of mockeTy For you cannot to the
foot of the rainbow And because You cannot go there
the Knockers, you cannot find the gold
On journeys that men undertake, driven by imagina
ton faith and ambition they go all the way They
do not reach the Of the rainbow find the particular
mass of gold that they had in mind But the road as
they travel and struggle toward their object they and
find many things worth while. Many and valuable to the
world have been the rainbow chasers They believers
doomed disappointment They also the useful hope
ful workers Of the earth.
Thousands of men following the rainbow Of hope have
started ont to establish perfect government Not has
done it. each has added something to mems possessions
None has given perfection but each has made Improvement
Each philosophical effort like the writing of Patos ere
public Moore's Utopia" or Henry Georges Progress
and Poverty does its part in making and government
better.
You cannot change men or humanity in a day. a GEN.
tuy thousand years. Rainbow chasers nearly all
disappointed dsusioned yet each leaves something DONE
and the world better.
Tiny creatures worked beneath the water of the sea
building the coral reefs and islands Billions of generations
of them died without having seen the sunlight above the
water without knowing really there But constantly
these building upward Their work stands although
they gone and it ouives all the stone works Of men,
The rainbow chasers builders Some of them become
rulers and die peacefully honored and happy like Wash
ngOn whose rainbow was free government for free Amer
leans.
Others die in disgrace like John Brown hanged because
he said black also have the right to freedom.
How your rainbow chase ends doesn't matter when it is
ended |
It makes no difference now to John Brown that he was
hanged; difference to Washington that he died peace
fully at Mt Vernon Neither in his grave, would life al
finger to change the ending you would not trouble to
change the finish of last nights dream The only important
thing that the dream call life should leave something
done for the dreamers that follow u.s. something made
easier for the rainbow chasers of the future.
Hope and belief those are powers that bring accom-
plishment and make life worth while Encourage hope |
belief and imagination in your child Do not let the
gradual osscaon and dying out of your hopes check
younger mind hold back in the chase after the rain
bow
Hope and belief took Columbus across the ocean, not
the little wooden caraveL You know that the rainbow is
cny mist that the wonderful coors only the sunlight
divided up by the particles of water that the bOw in the
sky only reflects the round shape of the earth You see
drops of water the coors of the spectrum Let others see
if they
Business manufacture agriculture owe everything toi
the science of chemistry Chemistry owes many of its most
important discoveries to those that would be called 1.-THE
CraEest Rainbow Chasers."
They the alchemiss of old days. men that spent
their lives struggling to change baser metals into pure gold
They never produced the gold which, like iron and
Of Others changng elements in the universe
elements of matter that science resolves down the cleo
ton but elements beyond the power of construct or
assemble
Man can take carbon and make an artificial diamond
But he cannot create the carbon he make of gold what
he chooses but he cannot create oneenth of grain of
gold.
Nevertheless those that for centuries chased the vain
rainbow TTansmutaton of Metals trying change other
metals into gold made Of the most important dis
covers the history of scientific research laid the founda
ton Of the science Of chemistry, absolutely necessary
TO human welfare