The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-12-17

and the conquestS, the activities and
the achievements of the race. If one
would be blessing to himself, to his
family, to mankind, he must be pre-
pared to take an active and an in
telligent part in their respective activ-
tiles and achievements. Schools, col
leges and universities with their facui.
ties, class-rooms, textbooks, libraries,
laboratories and athletic grounds are
but the means to this great end.
A knowledge o. the present attain
ments of the rae is not alone suffi.
Cient to enable one to appreciate fully
the present opportunities of life. One
must know something of the strug-
giles and conflicts through which the
race has passed to enable him to ap-
preciate intelligently and fully the
achievements of the present. Touch
ing the electric button and flooding
our homes and Cur streets with arc
and incandescent light rivaling the
brightness of the MONDAY sun should
bring to our minds a review of the
changes since the pine knot and the
tallow candle We're the best means OF
illumination. Standing on our great
thoroushfares of trade and travel, see
ing the steam and electric cars rush
on with the speed of the wind should
cal. uD a review of the times since
the oX-cart was the chief means OF
trans ortation and travel. Passing
over our country during the busy har-
vest season and seeing the hundreds
OF combines harvesting the millions OF
bushels of golden grain should call us
back to the time when our forefathers
cleaned their small fields with hand
sickle. Through our great telegraph
and telephone systems time and space
have been largely conquered and the
ealth made a grand whispering gallery
hose remotest inhabitants converse
at will The photographer ait in
which light Gods shadow turns paint
er for man leave in our homes the
loved features, while the phonograph
leaves the living voice of the distant
and the dead.
Step by step We are conquerlng the
physical elements about us. Today we
are flashing out our messages by wire
less to the uttermost PARTS of the
earth. Natural obstacles are disap-
pearing before the onward march of
the arts and sciences. Mountains and
rivers no longer block the highways
of trade and travel. Neither do they
protect the nations near them from in
vasion or conquest. The mountains
are either leyeled or tunneled, while
the rivers are either bridged or tun-
neled to permit the wheels of COM
merce TO roll on. BY the scientific con-
servation and distribution of the for
merly wasted water deserts are made
the garden spots of earth.
All these great achievements of the
race have been gradually evolved by
men Of advanced thought power ac.
quired by years of sacrifice and toll.
Not truth has to art or to science
been given
But brows have ached for it and
souls toiled and striyen."
Archimedes in his bath. Newton in
his orchard, Watt in his mother.
Galileo in the cathedral.
Franklin in the clouds and Edison i'm
his study have fought battles and
won victories far more worthy to be
commemorated by the historic muse
than the deeds of Alexander or Ma.
poleon that broke the world to their
sway.
Yet We believe We are but in the
morning twilight OF the full orbed dav