The Washington times., 1920-07-25

They praise the mind of children natter and spoil
them before they have any mind. Later they praise
the good looks of the daughter the physical strength
Of the son, at time when the mind begins TO grow,
and might be influenced in the right direction.
The business Of each man, woman, boy and girl Ia
to bear in mind that the HEAD is the thing, and that
NOTHING else counts.
Feed the brain with information exercise it with
thought keep the body healthy that it may have a
good blood supply to feed a working brain get plenty
Of Sleep the brain cannot work without it. Live
regularly temporarily and moderately eating exer-
cising and doing everything else with moderation,
but THINK as immoderately you like. That is
thing that won't hurt you Nobody overdoes it.
Study others, study facts study events around you
read the history of other days, plan your work
and usefulness TO-DAY, and help your brain to grow
by speculating about the future. Mediate upon the
improvements that possible NOW and those that
will come with FUTURE centuries of thought as
everything we possess except the earth under our
feet is due to PAST centuries of thought.
With nations as with individuals, and with indi-
vidual human beings as with the gigantic animal in
this picture the one important thing is THOUGHT
To-day, for instance the dinosaur among the na
tions is Russia. Two hundred and fifty millions
people and more, owning and occupying q terrific.
vastly greater than that of the United States spread
ing victories in every direction, great amazing peo
pie watched by the whole world is that huge creature
up in the northeast corner Of Europe and spreading
over into ASIA
What will happen there? The answer about Rus
sia is exactly the same as the answer about YOUR
SELF. It all depends upon THE HEAD.
In Russia LENIN is the head. anything hap
pened to Lenin if that one head" were taken
away from the two hundred and fifty million heads
a majority of them unable to read, that make up
Russia, there is no telling what would happen. The
big Bolshevist dinosaur probably would roll over
have many spasms.
In nations sometimes q new head is found, almost
at once, sometimes not for many years; sometimes
never.
With us individuals there is only head when
that fails through DEATH neglect disease foolishness
no other head takes its place.
When the revolution in France, number
of heads destroyed each other still the revolution
kept going for while. The first great head whose
extraordinary speech started the revolution died
natural death. That Mirabeau.
VERY great Robespierre had him beheaded
Then Robespierre became the head And then
his head was chopped off by the gulotine. Finally
Marat, perhaps the abest certainly the most deter.
mined and remorseless of them all, to tie top
If he had lived the revolution might have gone on
into republic gradually and become established
permanently, as our country did, after our revou-
ton. There might have been Napoleon or Ma
poleon III; two foolish kings would not have been
heard of.
But Charlotte Corday came in and did for Marat
what the little "carnivorous dinosaur'' in this pic
ture is doing for the big dinosaur. She stabbed
Marat to the heart as he lay in his bathtub, and
France had no head. Then Napoleon along
,aid, IN be the head and made himself for
while head of the world and ruler of nearly all
Europe.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEAD.
The brain inside of it, plus TIME is all that you
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