The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-25
break upon our shores?

break upon our shores?
For generations MAJ has dreamed OF
the utilization Of the energy of the
sun S rays. But it has remained for the
twentieth century to take the greatest
step in that direction. A solar engine
showing three and half horse power
while the sun shines, has been develop
ed So successful was the engine that
company has been formed to build one
in florida 70 be used for commercial
purposes. Is it any greater step from
this to a general utilization of sun pow
er than it was from the Watt steam en-
CINE TO one of the modern kind showing
ten thousand horse powerf Or Is II
a longer distance to travel than from
Fulton s Clermont to the twentieth cen
fury Lusitanias
The century will bring forth new
methods of preventing fires and of fight
ing those which do occur. In the past
thirty 1.-TWO years the fire losses of the
United States have amounted to tive
and a half billion dollars. The money
values thus wiped out would be enough
to furnish 1,250000 families with $4,000
homes. Fireproof buildings viii be i'm
perative necessities as building mate.
rails become scarcer. In the countries
Of Europe furniture, even in the homes
of the poor. lasts for hundreds of years
Dove-tailing and the like prevent il
from ever falling to pieces. Whe would
think of such things here9 1t is cheaper
to buy new paper of pins than TO pick
up those scattered around. 1t Is cheap
erto use a half dozen bedsteads that
have been glued together than to buy
one perfectly made. It has been cheap
er to rebuild a house if it happened Il
burn down than it was to build a good
one in the first place. All of this argues
| wonderful prodigality of resources. by
the end of the century necessity viii
have caused Us to evolve plan of liv
ing on the basis of ''once well done
twice done
The new century will revolutionize
warfare, and a bold prophet indeed i
he who will Try to describe the end-of
the-century battle. if perehanee brute
force is recognized at all in those days
Already the new century, yet IN hs
happy childhood, has given us the noise
less gun. 1t has given US the promise
of airships which will be effective II
time of war. Every new year brings
forth new inventions to add to the
hideousness Of the war monster, and
each one of them bespeaks such terrible
carnage that every human impulse re-
volts at the thought Each step OF
progress in the science of war seems t.
make the possibilities of war more re
mote.
The health Of humanity will be a
matter Of general concern ia the days
that are to come The span of life vii
be Heightened. Science viii wipe out
epidemics. Individual understanding Of
the laws Of health viii enable us Il
avoid a thousand ills. IT is not i'm
probable that necessity viii force upon
us the Chinese way of paying our doe
tors to keep us well instead Of reward
ing them for treating US when We are
sick. The discovery Of dirt has been
said to be the hygienic triumph Of the
nineteenth century. So has the practice
IF cleanliness been the triumph Of the
twentieth century. Plenty Of sun, plen
" Of pure water. plenty of pure food
and of fresh air for everybody viii be
the order of the years to come. Trying
TO keep well rather than to cure disease
will be the individual policy Of those
days
The application Of the discoveries Of
science TO sanitation and hygiene has
already resulted in great improvement
of the public health. Our grandfathers
did not dream Of the science Of eleanli-
ness as we know it today. The grand
sons Of the more enlightened Americans
of the first century viii be better and
stronger men in the end Of the century.
When the United States comes 10 the
wear 200H with 3s5. 000. 600 people. IT
viii he the greatest nation Of history
Much If the credit for that triumph VIII
be due 20 the scientist who has made
uossible the intimate daily e0THmunica-
rion Of rne people al over the broad
country. who has made knowledge pop
nlar and cheap. who is teaching us how
10 he clean and healthy. The appliea-
ton Of science 90 daily life means that
the people Of the end Of the century
win he better men than we are-better
physically. better mentally and better
morally.