The Washington times. [volume], August 22, 1920, FINAL EDITION, Image 13

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I I In his letter concerning the
picture, Mr. McCay says: "This
picture of mine is based on a couple
of lines in Seneca's Epistle No. 22. It is as true
to-day as when Seneca wrote it nineteen hundred
years ago.
"Tell the readers of the Sunday paper to look at
my picture and then look into their own minds, ask
themselves how many of them run after trouble, as
I show the crowd in my cartoon running after Old
' Trouble as though they wanted to jump into her net.
"Seneca was one that knew what he was talking
about when he said that servitude seises on lew, but
many seise on her. Seneca proved it by running after
trouble, when he got mixed up with Julia, niece of
Claudius, and was banished to Corsica. For all we
know, since he could not keep out of trouble, there
may have been some of his blood in Napoleon, the
CJorsican, whom we so much admire. I have often
thought of that.
"Napoleon was another that couldn't keep out of
trouble. If he had kept out of trouble and out of
Bussia, he might have died Emperor, and a Napoleon
might be ruling France now in place of the Republic."
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If you have ten friends, nine of them need this
picture by McOay. Unlike the majority of modern
newspaper men, artists and writers, Mr. McOay
thinks, reads and studies constantly. His choice of
the brief quotation from Seneca is most appropriate.
For Seneoa was writing about himself when he said
that trouble would leave us alone if we would only
leave her alone.
Seneca could not leave Julia aldne and he was
exiled. Then making himself a friend of Nero, and
playing the part of a miserable sycophantic toady,
he gave his approval to Nero's plan to ldll his own
mother. After Nero killed the mother to whose effort
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OJrf Seneca wrote it, and you KNOW it.
"PAUCOS SERVITUS PLURES SERVITUTEM
TENENT," Which Means That
Servitude, Misery or Trouble Seizes Upon
Few of Us, but Many Seize on Her, amf /taw
After Her.
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to Us with This Latin Quotation, Shows Old
Trouble Walking Off with Her Catch, Head
he owed the throne, Seneca wrote the letter that Nero
signed and sent to the Senate in an effort to justify
himself for the murder.
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Reciting these facts to the editor in his interesting
letter, Mr. McCay concludes: "You know what happened
to Seneca, who had to keep hunting trouble and
wouldn't let it alone. His turn came and he got the
trouble that he had been chasing all his life. He was
accused of conspiring against the Emperor, and was
ordered by the Emperor to put himself to death."
So Mr. Seneca got into a hot bath, opened his arteries,
bled to death and as the blood was pumped out
by the heart, he probably said to himself, "I said a
good deal when I remarked Paueoa nervitus pluree
aervitutem tenent."
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We are all hunters after trouble. Sometimes we
hunt foolishly and sometimes we hunt nobly. To
avoid the foolish hunting after trouble, and not to
fear the noble hunt for trouble, is the chief duty of
man. *
When we spend beyond our means, we hunt for
trouble.
When we worry about the future, instead of work
ing and saving to provide for the future, we hunt for
trouble.
That is foolish trouble hunting.
On the other hand, when we try to correct wrongs,
to protect the weak, we also hunt for trouble, but that
is noble trouble hunting.
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Downward, in the Direction of Darkness.
Ami McCoy Shows You Also the Crowd
That Run Crazily After Trouble, or "Servitude,"
as Seneca Calls It. They Are Not
Satisfied to Turn the Other Way and Be
Free, They Are Not Warned by the Misery
of Those That Are Packed in Old Trouble's
Net.
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The weak that are protected are usually not grateful.
Gratitude in itself is strength.
When you right wrongs, or try to, you are usually
called a demagogue, and a large percentage believes
the charge.
When John Brown worked to free the slaves, he
was hunting trouble. He realized it when they hanged
him.
When Galileo tried to educate the human race, told
them the earth went around the sun, and that our
little grain of sand was not the centre of the universe,
he was hunting for trouble. He realized that when
they made him get down on his knees and deny the
truths now taught to every child.
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. Mr. McCay's idea, however, doesn't deal so much
with the different kinds of trouble hunting as with
the fact that men are natural born trouble hunters,
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running eagerly, as in this cartoon, after the fate that
they might escape if they would only go in the other
direction.
Some of us cannot avoid trouble. Sickness, acci
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dent, a poor mental or physical start in life, or both,
make us limp, so that trouble can easily get us when
she comes hunting, even though we may not be hunt-'
ing for her.
But trouble really is not much of a hunter and she
is satisfied with a small bag. It is we, foolish human
beings, that hunt after her.
We follow in her footsteps, many of us all through
life, as you see these foolish creatures in the picture.
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Their gestures and faces seem to say, "Please pick
me up. Haven't you room for me in your net?"
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We set a trap for trouble, we lure her as the trout
fisher allures his prey.
We run in debt, that is an invitation to trouble.
We spend what we should be saving, that is aa
invitation to trouble.
We blame the world and Providence, our employers
or others, when there is no one to blame but ourselves,
and that is the most common and attractive invitation
to trouble.
Life would be simple enough if each man would say
to himself, "In that direction is trouble, so I am going
the other way."
You may not, like Mr. McCay, be able to read
Seneca in the original, so paste up, where you can
show it to young people, the English translation of
Seneca's words.
SERVITUDE SEIZES UP.ON FEW, BUT MATY
LAY HOLD UPON SERVITUDE. Do not be a
trouble hunter.
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To keep free from trouble, you do not need any of
the following things:
An independent fortune, college education, power*
ful friends, unusual ability. ,
You need these things:
AN INDEPENDENT MIND. Judge for yourself
what you need, what you should spend. Don't be led.
GOOD HEALTH. You can have it if you choose
by wise eating and living.
SOUND SLEEP. Plenty of it. All of us can have
that.
FtlESH AIR and reasonable exercise. They cost
us nothing.
Vanity, a desire to appear to be what we are not,
a desire to spend much, or dress as well as somebody
else are the things that set the crowd "hunting for
trouble."
Only two things are really important in this world,
peace of mind based on a good conscience, independ*
ence based on wise economy.
Those two things all of us can have if we will.
Go after THEM, don't be a trouble hunter.
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