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: ' Editorial and City Life Section, Hearst’s Sunday Kmerican. Atlanta, September 19, 1915
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A Man Believes That HE Is Pulling the Big Loaa, When He Is Simply Part of the Harness,
and Another and a Bigger Power Is Pulling Him. .
The Two Men That Manage the Elephant in This Picture Are Kind to Him and Appreciaie
Him. Men Working for Bigger Men—Human Elephanis, So to Speak—and Pulled Along by Them,
Should Appreciate Them, and Do at Least Their Share of the Work, Even Though It Be Not the
Big Share.
There Is a Good Lesson in This Picture of the Elephant, the Man and the Loaded Wagon for
Many Millions of Young and Old Men and Women.
HIS photograph shows an actual perform
ance that may be witnessed throughout
the country in the big circuses. You may
~ see it before the season is over, if you
haven’t seen it already.
The idea of this ‘‘act’’ originated with two
young men-—and it is making them rich. It is an
inexpensive performance, requiring only the feed
ing of themselves and one elephant.
zReER
You can see at a glance what the performance
is, and how simple it is.
A wagon is heavily loaded with twenty or more
human beings. Traces are bdund to the front axle
of the loaded wagon and are fastened to the arms of
a young man. That man WITH ONLY HIS OWN
STRENGTH could not possibly pull the load. He
could not move it.
But in front of the young man stands a big,
carefully trained elephant. For that elephant, able
to pull three freight cars, the load is nothing.
The elephant is harnessed, and the traces fas
tened to his powerful shoulders are united in a soft
carefully cushioned pad at the back of the perform
er’s neck.
When all is ready the partner of the man
hitched to the wagon gives the order to the ele
phant. If the big animal should move too rapidly,
if he should fail to start slowly and gently, he might
possibly break the performer’s neck.
But, intelligent as well as powerful, the big
beast leans slowly forward until he has set the
wheels of the wagon rolling, then goes along at a
slow walk, PULLING THE MAN, who in HIS
turn pulls the wagon.
e ey
It may seem almost unbelievable that a man
could stand this strain upon the back of his neck,
and that with the muscles of his arms he could pull
this heavily loaded wagon, even with the elephant
pulling HIM. :
But there is no difficulty about it. Any young
man of ordinary strength could perform this feat—
the principal thing was to have the IDEA, and to
realize how fascinating it would be to the public to
watch the elephant pulling the man by the neck,
and the man pulling a wagon and twenty human be
ings with his arms. :
If at play in a tug-of-war you have pulled
against a number of other men, you know that the
muscles of the body are capable of WITHSTAND
ING a strain much greater than that which they
are capable of EXERTING.
For instance, if you have in your nerves and
muscles and in the leverage of your. body power
enough to pull one thousand pounds, you could eas
ily pull, as this man does, several times as much if
there were a power ahead of you dragging you on.
The only thing necessary is to have the ele
phant hitched up in front TO DO THE PULLING.
2 wne
A good many men should see in this picture an
important lesson for themselves—a lesson in mod
esty, a lesson in the importance of realizing how lit
tle and how much each of us amounts to, and es
pecially a lesson teaching us to appreciate those
that help us and give us the success that appears to
be our own.
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Take away from this picture the elephant, and
the harness back of the man’s neck, and you would
see, aparently, a marvelous thing. You would see
one slightly built young man pulling twenty. If
you saw this, without seeing the elephant—if the
elephant and his harness were made invisible in the
circus, and you saw this young man walking around
drawing such a load—you would believe in miracles
or believe that the man had some force above hu
manity.
Only too often, in all kinds of work from the
smallest to the biggest, we see a picture which is
Just exactly what this one would be with the ele
phant made invisible.
Many a man seems to be doing something very
wonderful when in reality “another man, AN
OTHER MIND not vigible in the work but actual
ly at the work, does the heavy pulling.
You may see the salesman, the editor, the floor
walker, the engineer, the architect—any kind of a
man engaged in any kind of work—apparently do
ing something very wonderful.
Yet he is not doing it all; an unseen power, an
other man, another brain, perhaps some little man
with a small body and a big head, who keeps out of
sight, is doing the real work.
R RR
Many of us have elephants big, strong, but un
seen, pulling us. We ought at least to be grateful
to the elephant, give him a fair chance, since he does
the hardest work, and do our part, big or little, in
the general performance.
You may be very sure that the two young men
that perform in this interesting ‘‘act’’ at the circus
are grateful to THEIR elephant, careful of his
health and interested in his welfare.
They don’t forget him when the performance
is over. They look after his feet, feed him careful
ly, see that his rough skin is properly oiled, take
pains that nobody teases him or irritates him. They
know that to his’ power, gentleness and care they
owe their large weekly income.
It would be a good thing if many young men
working in all departments of activity in America
should occasionaily feel gratitude toward the big
elephant, the big MAN, the one whose power and
experience pull them along, and do what they can
to encourage him, to deserve his help and the ben
efit that they get from his pulling.
L A A
Every one of us WITHOUT EXCEPTION is
PULLED along or PUSHED ahead by some force
unseen.
It may be the man in the inside office, usually
invisible.
It may be the woman at home setting a good
example, giving to the man at work the inspiration
and the power that no one else could give.
It may be paternal affection, enabling a man to
do for a weak child what he could not possibly do
for himself.
Very often the power is one that has long dis
appeared from the earth, a father or a mother
whose energy and inspiration persist and do in the
life of the son at work what the elephant does in
this picture,
rere
We are all of us pushed or pulled, all of us in
debted to a power above our own and beyond our
own,
And we should all, at least, be grateful, from
the small clerk who is made secure, protected in his
daily living by a man working himself to death at
the head of the firm, to the man of genius, so called,
who owes the power that the world admires to a
mother unseen and unremembered.
Don’t forget the elephant that pulls you; BE
GRATEFUL. In this way you can add to your
own force, and perhaps in time become the power
that shall pull others,
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