The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-07

trod, making history as it always has
been made. getting ready for the otner
world by discipline and toll and conquest
as men ana women since the worlds be-
ginning have done.
But while all this is true do you or any
OF rs older people, VINO are only very
little older in either wisdom or experience
than you do any of US really know what
the next ten years may brlng 70 US bS
way of opportunity Do We really grasp
the meaning Of events that at this mo-
ment proDhesy the wonderful open door
OF the next ten years and what ii VIII
dauchters of Cod Come let US sstep 70
- 7+t~ssS,c14 ef 4775S 1iC.o- of +he new
century and see what the next ten years
Of IT may reveal to US of its power
The first ten years Of the new century
will offer wonderful opportunities TO the
student of physical life
There are indications that the discov-
cries of the world Of natural science are
only lust begun The announcement was
made in the European papers lately that
the secret OF sending an acIaa1 fepIs :t
alton Of a scene q thousand miles distant
in connection with a telephone message
has been discovered and made practlca4
by a scientist on the continent
The whole world OF lOcOmouon viii also
undoubtedly be revolutionized perhaps IN
Of opportunity Of service that the world
has never known before Another article
in the Endeavor world says a man may
be shot through pneumatic tube at the
rate OF a mile a second
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
But il the pneumatic tube or the air
ship are destined TO turn the locomotives
and rails OF our now powerful railway
system into piles of cheap and rusty scrap
iron what shall be said Of the progress
that is likely TO occur in the world OF
medicine OF the awakening world Of So
cia1 scienee2 Talking with well known
surgeon a little while ago. I was impress
ed with the statement made by him TO
the erect mat IN q Le" years rom , lese
many OF the commonly accepted metnods
of treatment of disease would be 50 FAR
discarded as TO be regarded as criminal
as indeed many pfaetlces once usea os ny
grandfather would be regarded as actual
y criminal today and the surgeon en-
ployfng them would be promptly arrested
for nalpractice No man can possibly
foresee the rapid and revolutionary results
that the next ten years may witness in
the practice Of medicine
The study of social relations IS even
now bringing about a change IN many
ways that IS nothing short OF revolution
this class who gives his life to this study
OF how TO make cities what they ought
to be may expect to witness before the
new century is ten years old an upheaval
of old traditions and a beginning made
Of new foundations of social life.
In the political world there IS a new
call for craftsmanship New parties are
/ being formed Old parties are rapidly be
ing changed in many ways. at least in the
matter Of change of attitude towards mu-
nicipal life Partisan papers that once
I would have considered II a political crime
/ TO speak against any candidate nominated
/ for Office by their party are now becon-
/ ing. sensible enough and brave enough TO
/ declare an independence OF party loyaitS,
/ If the man selected for an Office does not
! represent the better moral element The
T political world never presented such pos
( sibilities for craftsmanship as today. Ten
( years is not very long time in the his
tory of a nation. but 1t does not take a
4 prophet TO foresee remarkable change
I in old political views in the next ten
/ years
In taking look into the possibilities
/ of the next ten years. it will be evident
/ to any member of this class that journal
4 ism viii offer opportunities that no one
/ can measure in the way Of power and in
Z f1uence- I am sure am right in suppos-
/ ing that some OF you expect to make
/ journalism your life work In view of that
I fact what kind Of Journalism are you
/ going to help make in the next century
INFLUENCE IN JOURNALISM
/ II there are half a dozen Of you here
today who expect 10 make Journalism
I your life work you must already be i'm
pressed with the fact that no ten years
/ OF the nineteenth century can begin Il
compare with the first ten of the TWEEN
/ tfetf for possibilities in the line Of news
paper or magazine influence II you are
! not impressed with this fact and still ex-