The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-28
JOnah'S Whale OutdOne
The Great Beast, Ignorance, Swallows Little Men AS
the Great Fish Swallows Little Animals.

minute Consequently words and ideas will be miss
ing the following report his conversation he brought
in the picture that you see here
Barring errors and omissions, the words are all his
You know how a whale feeds, mean the great whale
ninety feet long, with the whaebone longer than I'LL
ing his mouth.
He knows deep waters in which tiny marine animals
live and breed in millions They thick in the salt
water as mosquitoes gnats in the summer air.
The whale rushes through the water at full speed driven
the power of his gigantic tail His mouth is open the
little creatures that he is to eat rush he moves by the
hundreds of thousands They caught by the rough
hairy mass Jungle of whalebone which hangs in the
whales mouth like great net The water goes out through
holes the top of the whales head out of the sides Of
his mouth The little animals caught in the whaebone
swept back by the whales tongue into the Throat
which small And that process continues the whale rush
through the water gathering and swallowing his curious
food until he has had enough Then he lies the surface
floating comfortably held and kept warm by the thick
layers Of fat the blubber that surrounds him as the
srmor surrounds a battleship.
Presently with the sun warming his back, and hun
deds of thousands of little within him gradually
changing by digestion into whale blood and whale strength
the giant Of the peacefully asleep You thk
he lies there top of the ocean, how and he
sents the ignorance of two kinds passive and active
Goethe, the great German thinker, says: Nothing is
more terrible than active ignorance"
Ignorance that lies still and sleeps the whale does
him only Active ignorance does the active harm It does
harm when it burns alive in the of religion
Furnishes them for discovering truths that interfere
with the calm sleep and arrogant domination of ignorance
Active ignorance has ruined millions of children with
overeducaton of the wrong kind and with brutal discipline
is impossible to exaggerae the harm done by active and
brutal ignorance expressed in words spare the Rod
and Spoil the Child Ignorance is Vciousy
active than when it finds smug false for its brutal
stupidity.
MOhammedan
schools anywhere along the southern shore of the Meter
Eranean or in Turkey
Crowded in small the poor brown faced ignorant
children sit rocking their little bodies repeating over and
over stupid worthless words of the Koran Mohammed
religious tumble. The teacher representing blind
brutality leading youth into blindness sits above the pupils
in his hand long stick with which he reach the head
of any child As child stops the endless repeat
ing of the meaningless Koran lines that being learned
the stick falls that childs head there is cry fright
ened upward glance and the dronng of ignorance
There you have active ignorance, wasting the time,
health and memory of children and forcing its ignorant be-
Gefs young minds fit for better teaching
Every one of those Mohammedan teachers, in the
schools where religion instead of teaching dominates will
tell you that would be disgrace crime outrage to take
his children from his religious power and his religious
stick and put them in real school, American public
school, for instance where they would be taught the truths
of the modern world instead of Mohammeds crafty
ceived notions of God and the future.
The Mohammedan teacher actively ignorant, forcing
stupid doctrines into the minds of children says Mr. Nc
Cay represents ignorance in its most vicious form.
The tiny creatures of whom hundreds of thousands
millions dgested at meal by the whale represent
ignorance of another pitfu kind They vbrate in
their little of the great ocean, somewhat
human beings do in little of space The great
whale rushing along gobbes them up sweeps them
back into his gule They represent helpless hopeless in
evtabe ignorance The whale dsposes of them Nature
dsposes of u.s. They would not know its meaning or
danger if they could see it coming
The whale asleep represents passive ignorance a big