The Washington times., 1920-04-11
Time Cleans The Slate
In few Thousand Years No One Would Understand the
English We Speak and Read Today.
Be humble, but not TOO humble.

That the that Mr. MoCay seeks to teach In this
series Of strong pictures
Take yourself seriously enough to mako you do the
best work that Is In you. -
Don't take yourself very seriously as to make life
miserable in case you should wake up day and find
that the world might perhaps have gone along well with
out you.
"A little boy scribbles his slate at school In one
corner he does his sums" Farther down he spells cat
and dog II he has left he makes picture Of the
teacher When the teacher approaches the little boy washes
the whole thing of with damp sponge, and begins all
again
That slate is Life We the pictures and figures
it, the little boy is Time, wping of the slate And the
teacher is HISTORY writing down which are the good
little boys with worth preserving, and which the
little boys that amounted to nothing.
You will admire the ingenuity with which Mr.. McCay
has presented his idea in these six pictures First you
the "Great Orator. close BY he talks you He is
though he had the cherubm and seaphm for
audience and the angel Gabriel in person taking notes
And 1t Is good thing that he Is earnest For the
great Greek teacher of oratoy said ITO convince Others
you YOURSELF must be convinced" If the speaker says
even one word worth while he is entitled all his feeling
Of Importance, to his solemn air Of grandeur.
The hen laying egg is not feeding the whole world
but she rs laying ONE egg And she is entitled to cace
uiumphanty when she is through
The second picture shows you your "reat Orator. on
the second day. The people saying that he made
Ane speech and he is still full Of it.
The next picture shows him week later, and the
fourth month later BY that time nobody knows exactly
who that spoke what he said or who was there
In the fifth picture that speech the speaker and ten
o%to info hich ia hi0 cifu
Looming above it, year LATER you the skirt Of his
tory, the city is like an ant hill below.
In the sixth and picture old History writing what
is worth keeping hundred years after the man perspred
and drank his ice water and assured his hearers that the
whole world depended that minute And behold, not
word about him in the history perhaps line covering that
year to say, Nothing important happened
This picture is discouragng only to the foolish man
who would not amount to much anyhow 1T ENCOURAGES
earnest and women doing their BEST working hard
sacrificing themselves duty and realizing that they must
be content with oblivion when they CO. is some comfort
to know that the pompous individual taking himself
seriously also sinks nohingnes and goes off the slate
beneath the sponge of Time.
The who really amounts to something finds in a
picture like this incentive for his best work He the
important gentleman growing smaller, he sees the ant hill
city below the great figure He Old History writing
hunded ten hundred ten thouand years later And he
knows that while nearly all have vanished there really
ARE certain names in that book.
He is fred with ambition by his knowledge that the
there about thousand in ALL worth preserv
ing since the world began Every of the thousand is
kept alive for different and sufficient reason.
He knows that the five greatest men that have ever
lived stand out in letters in god separated in history by
many centuries-and not fighting man among them.
He knows that names of women are there, and
many should be there. He knows that among the
greatest whose live, majority included in their