The Washington times., 1919-04-06
Here's An Opportunity For
Your Imagination


How does man look to the wOrm7 We see the WHOLE
worm and know good deal about it-athOugh we haven't
the fantest idea where its LIFE from. The worm
only fat surfaces that along on the
earth, destroying life
These surfaces the soles of our shoes sometimes
smooth sometimes made rough and more dangerous with
nails
Man. for the Worm is heavy, fat thing that presses
down, sometimes kills. sometimes does not
This is good picture because it makes the mind move
around to different place It is particularly good pic
ture to show to the children in your family saying you
show it. "What would happen the big as
elephant, and the elephant as small a mOuse?"
The elephant weighing several tons, fears the smallest
mouse, shivers when it approaches. the size were
reversed would the gigantic shver at the sight Of
the tiny elephant and squea for its keeper to come and
protect it from danger?
The giant mouse would not fear the tiny elephant
because the elephant would represent ancestral fear in
the mOuses mind The elephant fears the mouse because
it reminded Of the rat Rats gnswng the feet Of ancient
ancestors Of tOdays elephant the dangerous enemy
The elephant could seize with its trunk, strike down
with its tusks kneel upon and destroy any big creature
Il helpless against the that could bite and too
swiftly gnaw and destroy at its leisure when accident
or old age made the elephant helpless
the mouse were as big as the elephant if it retained
the asty of the original mouse it would be an animal of
terrible power it would make human life impossible. If
ats speed in proportion to its size could rush over
the earth faster than any express train. With powerful
teeth big forearm, It could gnaW through
any human dwelling and eat the inhabitants.
But ancient proveEb says the Lord has
that the trees do not grow up to the heavens The nvs
able law of Nature DEGREES that the bigger the creature the
slower its movements the whale could dart through the
ocean rapidly in proportion to its size the trout in
brook Il would that could overwhelm any ship
But It can't, it moves slowly
With wonderful wisdom all these things are regulated
Everything that lives could the earth and would
do the young could all survive. Any savage tribe
sheer numbers the higher if it only question
of fertility But, fortunately, domination is question of
INTELLIGENCE
And for that reason human beings naturally the most
defense poorly armed weakest in natural physical pro-
lection Of all the animals have survived and conquered all
the others
Our mOnkeyke ancestors whom scientists describe were
weak They used their brains invented spears tipped with
sharp ns deadly than the tooth of wolf or the wild
boar And they made the bow and arrow that made it
possible for them to kill their enemies without going near
them They studied the elephant and found that it could
not walk without the help of great muscle the hind
aeg They learned to creep up, cut that muscle and the
elephant was theirs
You have seen the mouse running little brown streak
along the Dashboard of your You have ptfu
terror caught in trap quiverng in the cruel claws of
cat Shutting your eyes, it is difficult to make yourself
IMAGINE that little creature of eIephanne size or imagine
azeephant reduced to SIZE But this picture the
oent you look at It, does the thing for you Here with
UANY effort Of the imagination you actually see in vour
mind the as big the elephant and the elephant
Utmost small the mouse-the artist has made him
little too big.
You this, but the imagination cannot imagine that
which you see because the imagination within US has been
developed only for few generations whereas our eyes
hsve taught Us, and have believed them implicitly for
millions Of years. the halfmlion years during which we
have been manhsped creatures and long millions of years
before during which the scientists tell coming
UR6Fm animal bodies
Che could think if its little eye could take in
the great bulk and power Of elephant it very likely
would say itself 81 wish had been made an elephant
big that nothing could rghten me- powerful that no
cat could kill me. How happy should be had mouseets
weighing ton EACH somebody to bring he hay twice