Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-11-04
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Marconi Predicts Ships VIII Be
Run BY ectricity.
AlRsHIPs FOR COMMON USE.
Inventor Also Sees q Better World
With Fewer Children, but Of Higher
Quality Operas 70 BE Heard and
Seen From . Distance.
That steamships will be run BY sum
shine Is the opinion Of Guglielmo Mar
conf, who recently discussed the mar
wells OF the future. s55ss ~; Y
The inventor Of wireless telegraphy
has come to America to increase his
transatlantic service from q capacity
of 5. 900 words q day to 10000. After
predicting q great future for wireless
biography he said to a reporter Of the
New York World: Isl
There seems to be happy. fate In.
the coincidence of scientific discover;
les, which on first thought are quite
unrelated to each other. The develop
5ment Of the airship, as shown in the
astounding performance Of Orville
Wright's machine In Washingto ton,
would seem to have nothing In COM
mon with the perfection Of wireless
communication, and vet IL one looks
into the future, the great airshtps
witch are to come. sailing at incredi-
BILE speed and at unforeseen and vary
Ing attitudes, could never without the
wireless speak each other as ships do
at sea and so remain In touch with
those safely at home.
And the airship Is certain to come
into general use, and that within the
lifetime OF our generation, not Tor
freight perhaps. but for people sure
". In fifty years the people Of New
York will be freed OF the 1vexing prob
lem OF rapid transit. There will be no
need for surface cars, elevated roads,
subways, tunnels and Ferries. sss5
sss In fact, as / look into the years To-
come ] am convinced that life viii be
an easier problem, more genial func-
tion in the scheme Of things, than 1t is
today. 5
Aside from the economy OF labor
which follows the conquest of natures
forces, there VIII be fewer people
among whom to divide the benefits.
The birth rate win continue to de-
crease. as I believe it should, ut least
for the present. With the growth Of
intelligence among the mass Of people
there will come realization OF the
folly Of rearing more children than
can be properly fitted to be efficient
members Of society. Quality, NOT num-
bers, will come to be the standard Of
racial excellence; and the present
anomalous condition wherein the num-
Der Of children in q family Is In inverse
ratio 60 the earning capacity Of the
parents will have disappeared.
1.-THE condition today Id not one Of
race suicide but Of social common
sense. And II the present enlighten-
ment OF the average men and women
continues to Its righteous turning
point there win come an end Of con-
gested cities. with their Wretehed and
starving children Of the tenements,
their crimes, their killing competition
and their encouragement OF the gem
tier aspirations OF men. u
eIn all ways science Is more and
more studying TO perfect the practical
comfort and well being OF the world.
or course there VIII always be ships
upon the sea. The mysterious primeval
voice Of the ocean viii continue Ito
spell over the human Imagination. But
there will not always be steamships.
They win pass the way Of their preae-
cessors, and ere long we shall cross
the ocean In ships run by electric pow
er. There win be no CRIME Of coal
smoke. no sickish odor OF stale steam.
no blazing cayerns In the hold, where
! human beings with starting eyes and
blackened faces sweat their lives away
that the pulse Of the engines may not
stop. The storage baftery Will take
the place Of coal ana fire and water.
Instead Of coaIing the great ship will
quietly and clearly renew her batter
| les at her journeys end, and Il coal Is
used It will be far from the linen and
j the noses of men 3s
Furthermore, look Tor the time
when coal VIII cease to be our only
source OF energy. In every land men
! Of science are patiently studying the
problem OF utilizing the energy OF the
sun storing II, In fact 80 that the
/ generation Of electric force may be
cheapened BIZ its use to q point where
the storage battery ON large scale
will be an economic as well as an AGA
demic possibility. The wasted energy
In coal as now used may IN the inter
4 val be brought to do its work and g
Il bring about the monster storage bat
terry sooner than we now expect. Blu
4 sooner or later we shall enslave TIN
SUMS rays to Cur uses as we have thu