The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-07
Carving Out a Man
Time the Great Sculptor, Chips Off the Gross Marble
of Ignorance, Brutality But His Work Is Slow.

II
There two kinds of sculpture the old fashioned
kind, all hard work. and the modern axier kind
The old fashioned sculpture is illustrated in Michael
Angeles David of the world four greatest statues
Michael Angelo youth when he made It, There was
defective block Of marble not worth much and they gave
1t to him. thinking would do no harm he spoiled It,
He studied marble carefully creating the statue In his brain
before he touched the stone When he finally set to work
with chise and maet cutting the marble he did the job
marveousy that he used inch of the marble block
On the top OF the head now the rough marks
where the quaymen took the block Of marble from the
mountainside.
In the DID, hard working kind of sculpture the artist
stood before his stone with chse and maet and cut out
of the marble the thing that he saw in his mind
The modern, lazy style is simpler. The sculptor takes
soft clay he kept wet and plabe with damp cloths
night Instead of cutting solid marble he softly
models the clay he makes mistake, he remedies
It, at his leisure He change the face the mouth the
nose any part fifty times Not with the ldfashioned
worker Every blow of the maet the chisel meant
piece Of marble and forever could not be put
= back.
The modern sculptor easy compared with the
old workers of the Michael Angelo type who had to be both
artist and mechanic
The modern sculptor allows his fancy and imagination
plenty OF exercise with hc soft material When it Is done
he hires mechanic to chise the thing in marble initiating
his soft copy hires other mechanics to cast the work in
bronze.
All who read this are engaged successfully other
wise in the lifelong task of trying chisel life into good
shape.
In methods of working upon ourselves, there
two kinds of sculpture the hard working and the lazy kind
Ninety-nine in hundred prefer the easy road They
do little today, change tomorrow Their statue, which
is themselves is made of soft clay and they work at it list
lessly They think that mistake made can be rem
eded later majority of leave rather poor imitation
Of work behind us when packed away for good.
Mr.. McCay's excellent cartoon shows Father Time
working the great statue that will be day finished
complete and perfect human The picture is admirable
throughout and you will call the attention of the young
pie in your house to it.
It shows that in all things Time necessary Time is
the great worker The important thing therefore, is to
see that YOUR Time is actually WORKING Many Of rs
allow Time to sit idle at feet doing nothing while
do nothing and Time goes by and no work is done.
The work that Time is doing the gigantic statue Of
the human is the work that You must do upon your
SELF and tomorrow and every day while you live to
give yourself the chance to which you entitled.
Observe the TOOLS that Time uses, and that YOU
must use, to get results.
THOUGHT and EDUCATION are the chise and
maet that cut the rough rock bringing out the per
feet form.
Some THINK without education or knowledge and do
little Others, with education do not USE it, in earnest
thought and they do nothing.
A chisel without malet cuts nothing And
mallet without chisel cuts nothing
The power that the maet gives to the chsel cuts the
marble The power that education, knowledge gives to
thought cuts away difficulties in fe
In Mr.. McCay's picture, Time working from the head
downward has already accomplished great deal Man
stands he looks up the sky and the He
knows the size of his earth its shape its journey and
he weigh the gigantic sun that leads through
space.
At the foot of the statue Mr.. McCay has shown well
in huge fragments properly labeled the work that Time
is doing now.
IGNORANCE, BRUTALITY SAvAGERY are grad
ualy being Clipped away that real civilization may be
What Time does for us ALL, as one great race each
must do for himself, he out his
With constant thinking fighting and hammering he must
control himself, develop himself, and shape himself.