The Washington times., 1919-03-02
You May Not Know
Anacharsis ClOOts
This Editorial Will Introduce You 10 HIN anu W ili0
Very Truthful Observation About Law


. ask who Cloots was.
Evsrv inteIpeut man should have in his house good
encvcouaedia and dictionary. Any strange "Oro ne
sbouId look ND in the dictionary. When ne comes 70
~ IN history scientific fact or anything dealing with
General knowledge unknown him, he should look In the
gncvcouaedia That way to build up an eoucaElOn
Building an education NOT be done between tne
fifth and twentieth years In youth you lay the toundaton
for an education. (Good habits ncuolng tne h@i' "
concentration are most importantly
Later Won get real education by thinking and accumu
Isting information.
Ansbars Cloots was an erratc interesting figure in
the French Revolution.
His respectable parents Baron and Baroness Co0tS
named their baby Jean Baptiste Duval de Grace. This
loots babv member of noble Prussian family heir to
rat fortune was sent to Paris child to complete his
education Early he got the notion that merely being
baron with plenty of money wasn't sufficiently exciting
He is especially interesting because hundred and
ntynne years ago made up his mind that there ought
20 be great league or universal family OF nations to
end war forever When the revolution broke out In Paris
he appeared before the Legislative Assembly accompanied
by thryve representatives Of foreign nations, whom ne
called ''The Embassy Of the Human Race.
he firmly believed that war was to end and peace to
last forever He changed his mind little later when
Robespierre had his head chopped off, in 1874 by the
guIlotne that had chopped many Cloots got good
idea little early If he had waited until 1919 to go to
Paris and advocate League of Nations he might be getting
his name in the papers in less dangerous way.
When you come across name like Anacharsis Cloots
you ask yourself why he decided to adopt Anacharsis in
place Of the his father gave him Investigating you
make the acquaintance of interesting Greek gentleman
to whom journalism the cartoon this page and to
whom the world the interesting observation that
spiders make webs that will hold little flies, but not big
aY T:GGI. .s,..Tz
not big ones.
Anacharss didn't say this after the formation of the
Steel Trust the Sugar Trust any other trust He said
II more than twenty five hundred years ago.
That old Greek gentleman far interesting than
your modens of the French Revolution this present
world revolution
Anacharsis was the son of Greek woman his father
nonadic chief of the Euxne shores-a brgand in less
polite language.
He learned Greek from his mother, went to Athens
listened Solon the of the wise Greece
H inventor frstcass orator and made the inter
! estng remark about laws and the webs of spiders.
Coots probably, not much interested in the Greek
philosopher BE had read you should read the Able
Bathelemys tne book, AnacharSiS in Greece BE threw
away the long his father and mother gave him and
called himself Anacharss because he thought the hero of
Bsrthelemy's romance was like himself.
broad-minded, curious man was this Cloots givino
bis money to the French Republic he said "to arm
fighters in the sacred of against tyrants He
wrote one book entitled The Certainty of the Truths of
hIohaHuedanSm and another book, "The Certainty, of
the Truth of Christianity
BE called himself the orator of the human race and
al in ALL had fine time until RObespierre and the gulo
tine got him.
Of course, you know WHY the spider builds his web
he does In the first place he could build stronger
web if he wanted to-
spider of such a size builds web of such and such
toughness
In the second place the spider only WANTS to catch
small flies things that he can handle, kill and eat COM
fortably.
spider built web that could hold big humble
bee yellow jacket would be for the spider than
for the big insect. For the spider couldn't eat big
fighting, singing creature anyhow He is only too gad
when the bigger creatures fly through his net and 20 out
the other side without doing too much damage.