The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-12

difficulty of the confusion Of messages
will ever be solved is the invention of
a receiver so adjusted that it will re-
spond only to one note. If those two
difficulties could be removed then imag-
ination fails to picture how knowledge
could be transferred all around and
about us.
Another great dream more important
than any of them or all of them put to-
gether, perhaps. What mankind wants
more than anything else is power. That
is the great desideratum of the human
race. And yet with all the clamoring
for it we are living in an ocean of
power. The human race is almost dy-
ing for power, and yet we are floating
on Amazon of it and have not yet
learned to dip bucket into it. This
great power is the heat from the sun
light, which now is only wasted. TO use
this power is one of the dreams that is
beckoning on science. There is enough
power from the heat of the sun shine
on one acre of ground to run ten cotton
mills of 800 horse power each-about
one horse power to the square yard of
sunlight.
l have one more dream the artificial
manufacture of food. With all the
things that chemistry can make, it
can't make food. From the planting
of the wheat it takes seven or eight
months to make biscuit. We take
! tie wheat and mix it with a little water
and other things and say we made that
biscuit. It's not so, nature made it by
a laborious process. The wonderful
thing about it is that when you unmake
that biscuit it seems a very simple
thing. Let the biscuit stay on the
stove too long and you will have water
in the air and charcoal on the stove.
The same is true Of any kind of vege-
table or fruit you ever saw in your life,
and if you will give me one and a quarter
tons of charcoal and ton of water,
and show me how to put them together,
| will give you two and quarter tons
of food. The only trouble is toput it to-
| gether. The same is true of sugar, of
butter. 1t is not the bread bills that are
breaking your back, you say. 1t is the
butchers bill. If you will give me 81
pounds of charcoal and water and three
pounds of nitrogen, and show me how
to put them together, | will give you
100 pounds of good, lean beef. Nature
takes long time to make beef-it has
seemed to me sometimes that she has
taken an age. That is the dream of
our modern chemists---to learn how to
take those simple things and put them
together. If we had a chemist with
sense enough-bu they haven't got it -
to put together the boundless water
supply and the boundfess charcoal sup,
ply, and the boundless nitrogen supply
of the world-all the problems of life
will have been solved. This dream is
not unreasonable, and l would not be
surprised before l die to eat artificial
and nourishing food out of chemica
: laboratory.
The speaker said this morning he in
tended to make a hortatory address
but he wanted to give them something
to think of other than the commonplace
to get them interested in some of tn,
movements which will turn the worl'
over.
Now l hor" will go home wit
sometk; nix about and wit
son,~'' / about.
/ ". =, fusion, especially t
congratulate young people begin
ming life tomorrow, to congratulate
them upon stepping out into the worl
:. in an age SO full of progress, achieve
ment, inspiration and stimulus to tn
young man. Never was there a tim
: since the world was made when the out
. look for the young man was so full G
l inspiration as it is today, and l want
:, congratulate these young men tha
l they are facing the future when it
so full of hope.