The Washington times., 1921-01-23
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best time for working while
others rest, and the time that supplies SO many
convenient excuses for NOT working
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Time passes and WE pass, and our opPor-
tunities are gone. Many, az Mr. Mccay shows
them here, are ANCHORED. They sit and wait
and their chance goes.
The shin does not know what power holds
t. as it rides on the side with the anchor fastened
below. OF the millions Of men that remain sta-
tionary, GOING NOWHERE, accomplishing
nothing, not one in thousand could identity the
anchor that holds him.
In McCays picture you SEE the anchor
and the chain, and seeing both, you wonder that
the men do not NOW get up and work to set
themselves free, or like tho climbing men in the
distance, start upward, carrying the had with
them.
Mr. McCays usual letter Of comment comes
with his cartoon. Here sre extracts from it. Mr.
McCay writes:
'Do you remember what Dante said. that
manv mon are dead but don't know it. Their
bodies are walking around on the earth, but their
souls have already been sent below to suffer pu"
ishment without delay.
Dante made this discovery when he went
to the Internal regions and recognised one Of the
souls in torment as man that he had left living
on earth.
1T don't know about the Dante idea, and
neither did he. do know however, that for all
the good they do on earth, many men may just
rs well disappear soul AND body. I know also
that many of them are anchored, hard and tight,
to one spot with no hope Of progress, and they
haven t the faintest idea what is the matter with
them. ..
1T have tried to show that thought in thin
picture, and think it may be useful in at least
a small degree to some poor creatures that arc
anchored fast, and much more useful to those
that are stin free and moving They will be
warned by this cartoon not to let any anchor and
chain become attached to them.
~ wish you would print with this picture on
your eQlC0r1al page lngalIS me poem apOuJ
Opportunity I don't remember the exact
wording of it, but know that when Ingalls, wrote
those verses he rendered real service to every
ambitious young man. and what is moro impor-
tapt, he wrote poem that ought to stick pin
INTO every young man that lacks ambition r.,
."If had made this cartoon what it ought to
be should have shown not four, but four thou.
sand, young men anchored with four thousand diff.
ferent kinds of anchors. But the four that show
are enough, hope, to make some few get up and
drag their anchors, as a ship does when high
wind blows Esgs
,'.The biggest anchor in my picture is the
EASY JOB anchor. That holds down hun.
dreds Of thousands that would be highly indig-
nant If you told them the truth. Most of them
would say, I have no EASY job have to be
here nine hours day, and there is not much
future ahead for me-
Precisely, that is what makes 1t easy to hold
the Job. The job with future means work IN
THE PRESENT. An easy job is the kind of
thing that a man can do half asleep and half
awake, without really trying.
ITO be anchored in one place and feel that you
can stay there, able to live with nothing much to
fear and nothing much to hope for is a great
calamity
The next man in my collection ID anchored by
his PAST REPUTATION. You will find him
among little clerks among actors, among bankers,