Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17

good poetry-good enough for gone
generation, that is-has seen to that. and
will now continue to see to it by means of
organized effort
An association of persons. wealthy
enough to be interested in such AN alb
stract proposition as posterity. has been
formed here for the purpose of handin 8
down the voices and the gyrations in daily
life of distinguished persons of both sexes
of this and other epochs TO come. This
benign little favor for posterity is To be
done by means of photograph records
and moving pictures. Photograph records
of the voices of renowned individuals are
10 be made, not for reproduction for mere
pelf. but for preservation. that the people
living in remote ages to come may De edi-
fed None of these records, in fact. is TO
be heard by this generation at all, except
that the records will he tested to ascer-
tain il they are perfect. They are to ne
kept purely as audible historical 'dOcu-
ments'' for the benefit OF races yet I'M
born and undreamed of.
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a great many distinguished persons
kings and queens and such like-would OF
course not breathe fervid sentences into
a photograph if they knew that their ut
a machine and ratified off for the delecta-
ton of plebeian persons coughing up a
nickel or dime for that particular kind
OF delectation. Different though when
they are assured-and the names OF the
people comprising the association makes
the assurance perfectly gOOd-that the
records are only for the ears of genera
lions TO come. AIready il has been ascer-
tanned. by inquiry on the part OF mem bers
irtr %
5he rcaIIy-anG- trulies will talk into the
machines for this helpful, upiiftin pur-
pose. They have lists OF exalted ones
who already have promised TO clear their
exalted throats and humble exalted ut
terances into the recording machines.
The scientific members Of TINS asSocia-
tion declare that the phonoSraph rec
ords can be so fxed-dipped in some
thing extraordinarily preservatiVe-that
they will last at least as long as any OF
the stone tables of the remotest ages,
and that they will be "A whole lot fresher
three or four thousand years from now
than any of the paDyrh that are being
mug w 80 fuently these days by mem
bers of the various exploration societies
AS soon as the records with the voices
of the great ones are made they will be
filed away incased in alright and earth
quake-proof cylinders Of metal, in cement
storage plants especially built for them
the plants themselves TO be impervious
10 all of tile attacks of time, weather
and cataClysinS of nature
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Moving picture films showing the re
nowned ones in various postures, indi
eating their method of getting through
their regular. ordinary days. are to b.
filed away with the phonograph records
The same kind of highly preservativ
done that is TO be employed TO keep TIL
monograph records until the crack
doom or thereafter will be used to pickl
the moving picture films so that nothing
except the recurrence of another grind
ing glacial epoch will be able to harm
them.
The records and the films thus obtained
are not to be heard and shown until 10
years after the deaths of the great one
whose kinks are thus preserved for pos
engity. Thereafter they may be hear