The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-11-19
THE WORLDS WORK
Goodwin's Weekly

Go0dwin's Weekly
The struggle for advancement
along all right lines. which. is COINS
on in this generation among all civil
liked peoples, never before had 8
parallel. We are not sure, but be-
.lieve that the science of surgery and
medicine leads. This not only III,
cludes the treatment. but the pre-
vention of disease. In every import.
ant port there is kept perpetual
watch to arrest and isolate any con
tagious disease that comes in from
the sea, as well as to keep guard
over the shore. The fevers that form
erly devasted tropical and semi-trop-
ical lands have practically all lost
their terrors except typhoid. and the
origin Of typhoid has been traced out
and the means to prevent 1t are gen.
orally understood. The universal use
of anticipates has been boon to the
world, and made operations common,
which were formerly held to be prac-
tically impossible. This knowledge
makes clear the absolute need Of
perfect sanitation and what is neces-
sary to secure it. OF course. a lay
member can only give general re-
suits. the scientific discussion OF such
a science belongs to scientists only
Just few days ago there was n
gathering of 1,400 veterinaries II
congress at the Hague. and the d.
cussions there of animal diseases.
their prevention and cure was rev =
lation. Such a meeting would haze
been an impossibility a very few
years ago.
In other lines the progress is vc-'v
great. At the rate the study of sg-
riculture is being persued it seerns
certain that in this generation the
yield of food from lands under cul-
tivation will be increased perhaps 80
per cent. In Iowa and Illinois manv
farmers are talking confidently of
soon being able to produce. as rule,
100 bushels of corn to the acre. The
study of soils and what crops they
can most profitably produce. is in
cessant. The pests that annoy and
cause loss to farmers and horticul-
turists are being run to their breed
ing places and destroyed.
In transportation the same zeal Is
being seen. How to carry heavier
loads and at the same time carry
them cheaper and swifter is prob
lem which thousands of men are
working upon. This applies to both
land and sea, it is, too, In the mind
of the farmer when he wants colt
and also is part of the dream of the
men who are inventing flying ma
chimes. They think of the wireless
telegraphy that intrudes upon the
world just at. this time. There is a
man here who looks forward to see
all telephone wires relegated to the
past in the next fifteen years. to a
time when man can sit down in
his study or counting house and talk
with friend a mile or a hundred
miles or thousand miles away as if
face to face. Other men are dream
Ing of transportation lines in the near
future to be run by that same wire
less. This has already been done
On small scale.
Less than sixty years ago, when
the New York Tribune had about
100000 weekly subscribers, it re-
luired three days to run the edition
off the press. It can be easily done
now in few hours, and the papers
will all be folded at the same time.
But when the old press was running
t required 100 days to make the
Journey from New York to San Fran
cisco, which has been reduced to four
md half days. This makes clear
hat 100 men with machinery can
low accomplish work which $4,000
men could not have done when some
men now living were born
The question in timid souls is: /
How can | keep UP with this old
'apid bullying world?"