The Washington times., 1920-03-14

A little baby cries and shrnks from unknown face.
It's father shrinks from truth, a door lead
ing into another field of knowledge.
Tomorrow does not frighten U.S. nor today. But mil
lions worry about ten twenty years from now And all
frightened by the unknown truth that waits for
the other side of the grave
Man, with his little supply Of knowledge, is pathetic
figure in infinite space and time wandering dragged by
force that he understand journey, toward
destination unknown to him.
But must 60 on mut keep moving. And the
mind finding courage within itself must not allow today
and be made useless future uncertainty
As you look at this work of Mr.. McCays powerful
imagination portrayng the untraveed realm Of thought
and knowledge you moved to encourage the little figure
in the center You would him around and say him:
flight against those enemies that pull and push, and
hold you back. The columns high and many, the
of the in which you travel wide and roomy
You have hard journey at best But push off Fear and
Superstition that hold you, take your direction, and keep
going, that is the only hope-KEEP GOING
the history your own mind as in general history
you fear of the unknown that holds back
paralyzes their efforts
little boy going upstairs in the dark knows that he
is SAFE in his fathers house Yet he fears endless unknown
things They do exist and he knows that they do
exstn the daylight. But, in the dark the unknown
lures hi mwith strange fears.
So it is with grown man. victim of superstition climb
ing up the stairway of life in the darkness Of the night
He too knows that he in his Fathers house He ought
to know that he safe And he does know it, when the
light of is with him. But few of take that light
all through life and into the dark
Occasionally appears spirit for whom the Unknown,
with its mysteries, has no terrors.
Contrast for instance Christopher Columbus and his
When they had been sailing and out of sight
of land day after day. and night after night terror came
upon them Some afraid that the went for
that would STOP suddenly and they would fall into
nothngness There must be end Of the earth, they
reasoned "And when get there shall fall of and
go on falling forever"
Thou o1i1no nd fonh1 minds fodov
scarcely realize the simple truth that the world is round
that fastened to it by gravitation as the fly is
fastened to orange and that round and round
on the water or in the air. indefinitely.
So it is with The Infinite Unknown" the label that
Mr. McCay gives this picture You may be there is
nothing in it to brighten Everywhere shall find
truth prevailing and justice ruling The explanation Of
every Ozark problem will prove simple the trip of
Columbus when the truth is known.
Columbus knew little more than his crew, but he had
courage go He had left shore and that
his ship would find another He dreamed of such
place America, continent, untrodden world
three thousand miles of water He expected find
short cut to the Indies.
THE MAIN THING IS THAT HE KEPT GOING.
Between different minds contemplating the unknown
vast differences One man. in days of childish super
stition would say, "That looks like ghost and
shrekng with terror Another would say, 1T does look
like ghost, I'll go and examine it, And he would find
wheelborrow used for carng lime sticking up in the air
against fence its white handles looking like ghosy
You contrast differences in ignorance when you look
back Columbus and his landing at last the
known Shore with savages looking midy from behind
at the rowboats coming through the shallow water
To the savage the strange with white SKINS curious
clothing and the Gigantic ship objects inspiring
The ship they thought had down from the
sky There limit that they would not set to the
miraculous powers Of those white men, who, few days
before Of sight of land had been badly frightened
as they.
Columbus and his crew. the other hand represent
ing wider experience and knowledge frightened
all by the savages their paint shouts the feathers