Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-08-30
OF ACHIEVEMENT
WROUGHT ~ MEN
AND MACHINES

IOcpicSSSu Win Inv
are in state of restless, feverish, I'M
healthy activity. This popular belief
Twill bear little looking into. 1t is
fact that life moves faster than ever
before in the worlds history. The OLD
slow coach days are gone. But 1t does
not follow that because the physical
side of life has received vast i'm
petus in momentum mat we human
beings are under greater pressure than
were our forefathers. The man who
goes by train 100 miles accomplishes
the Journey in fraction of the time
he could have made it 100 years ago.
But as a matter of fact, while the>jour-
ney is rush physically as compared
to the old slow moving coach, the man
himself is subject to far less worry
anxiety and hardship than he would
have been by the old method of loco
nation. The 100mile journey, while 1t
lis quicker, is also easier. 1t calls for
'no particular preparation. In short,
the rushing speed at which the man
travels subtracts from rather than
adds to the labor and hardship of the
Journey under the old condition.
In the old days there were no sky
scrapers, no houses of many stories;
and yet, consider how little stair
climbing we do nowadays as compared
with the old days Perpendicular To-
comotion is a new invention, while
horizontal locomotion is as old as the
race. The fast elevator moving up and
down. like the fast train moving
across country, has given a rush to
life only in seeming. Actually it has
relieved the tension of living and
working, enabling men to dc all their
fathers did in a fraction of the time
it-took their fathers to do it, Follow
ing. out the same line of reasoning, it
appears that what we call the rush of
life in our day is merely the rush of
the machinery which we have set in
motion to do the work which formerly
had to be accomplished with infinite
pains and toll by hand and foot The
steam propelled launch will carry a
man across a river much more swiftly
than he could swim across. But no.
body would say that the little boat in
which he rides at ease has added to
the rush of the mans life as compared
to the toilsome effort necessary to
swim across the river
Life has been speeded up in the ex-
ternals, but the speeding up process
applies only to the physical circum-
stances with which and amid which we
do our work. OF course, when we can
acaomplich a oivap u,o,ly IN :, 81, 1,.4 80
time we are through with it that much
sooner and ready to go on with some
thing else. In that way more interest
can be dealt with in the course of a
day than under he old time conditions.
Nevertheless, in general it would seem
that the work of the world goes for
ward more smoothly than in the old
days, with less of the sense of strife
and toll. The modern man goes about
his work with greater sense of ease
and comfort. There is no question
about the truth of this in the case OF
the men as the leaders of industries
But it is true also of the mass of the
people. The man who works has
shorter hours than ever before. He
accomplishes more in eight hours thar
he could have accomplished in ifteer
in the old times, but this is not be
cause he works harder than his ances
tors did, but because every motion o.
his hand and every leading Of his
brain is picked up and multiplied ant
intensified prodigiously BY the untir
, ing machine which wbirs at his side.
J We do things quicker than ever be
fore in the worlds history. At thu
, same time We do them with create