The Washington times., 1919-08-31

MEN AND NATIONS ARE MOST EASILY JUDGED
IN BAD WEATHER that is to say when things go wrong
and plans miscaTTy.
LET me sleep when the news is good said Napoleon
"but wake me always when you have bad news
BE knew that with bad news lost their balance
one disaster may cause dozen Others as frightened
horse sampedes the whole herd And when anything went
wrong he knew that the weakness Of his would come
and he wanted to be told bad that he might throw
in his own strength to counteract others weakness
You study human nature, especially the weak side
bY visiting resorts where men and women gamble
For instance at Monte Carlo, overlooking the Mediter
rnea of the most beautiful spots in the world there
is located the worlds greatest gambling dive.
At many tables and women betting gold and bank
watch tiny white ivory ball spinning around the
roulette table At those tables at others where cards
are dealt and turned tens Of thousands of dollars piled
up the red, the black odd or Men and women
watch with painful esgeness the result the compartment
into which the ivory ball drops the cards that turned
telling Of loss gain
AS you study the Of faces you do not need to be
told which are winning, which losing
One man is smiling, cheerful, polite People leaning
over to place their bets do not disturb him. he wants to
help everybody he loves everybody he pulls in his
winnings
"Winner is written all over him With the next man
it exactly the His elbows spread out to keep
people away He frowns at everybody and everything
The Of his mouth down, his face is pale
loser is written all over him.
As at the gambling table, where vice reveals char
sfer so it is throughout the long struggle that call
man life.
And it is not with individuals only but with races and
With nations
In this picture Mr. McCay has ingeniously presented
fhe difference between good times and bad and the effect
they produce he shows you in the bright days of pros
pery falsehood as lady giant and truth little female
dwarf And it is in effect In times Of prosperity old
fehoods that have been growing for centuries are big
strong and impressive And little TRUTH that has been
struggling for life, is small and dwarf like.
But conditions different when something happens
to open mems eyes, to make them look at things they
really and not according carefully prepared descrp
tions.
In this cartoon the picture of sunshine might well have
been labeled 1914 and the picture of storm cold and rain
might have been labeled 1919.
Many nations, many millions of human beings, have
learned from the misfortune of what the truth is and
how greatly falsehoOd magnifed how vastly human
beings imposed upon in the days prosperous peace
In 1914 emperors and kings really believed that they
superior creatures sharing Gods power especially
created to rule the world Now they know that they are
lucky If alive One of them, emperor sees harness
maker President Of Germany working hard and successful
y to build up the great country that he pulled down An
other also emperor is driven from ancient palace in
Austria to boarding house in Switzerland And third
also emperor who called himself father of his people
heed Of the church. Autocrat of all the Russas lies rot
ting in his grave, his unhappy family killed with him
And not only hereditary rulers of men have been taught
the difference between the fasehOOd Of 1914 and the bitter
cold truth of 1913.
The man who thought himself all important because he
had made inherited money has found that men are
more important than dollars least that they CAN be-
they choose to be.
They have found out that labor must be treated as
partners u nations industry not servants Nations
during desperate realized every day and hour that the
one important thing MEN. To win battles MEN had
TO die thousands and millions Of them To supply fighting
material MEN had to work and WOMEN had 70 help them
Ideas and theories thrown aside falsehood began
20 shrink and truth to grow
The cold blast Of war made men know that they are
fulfilling their whole duty when they SIC idle and