The Meeker herald., 1912-07-13
Thu. The World Moves On

had been spending his first real vac
alton in twenty years, Thomas A.
Edison the other day made the pred
lotion that it is only matter Of time
when the airship will suppisnt the
steamship as swift, safe and practi-
cal medium Of trans-Ocesnic travel.
As rejecting the marked change that
has occurred within recent years IN
the popular belief In mans ability to
accomplish the seemingly impOss-
ible. It is significant that no one dis
sents from the wizards picture OF
our future means Of locO,notion.
Yesterday such prophecy would
have been laughed to scOrn; today
we not only accept 1t as within the
realm of probability but look ahead
to the day when the big levisthan Of
the air will replace, not only steam
ship but the railroad ~ well. for all
forms of transportation. Once scep-
tical of everything that flew in the
face of tradition and threatened to
upset the old order Of things, We now
doubt nothing. For the we'll mean
ing clergymen and church people
who denounced Ben Franklin from
their pulpits as q usurper OF the d.
vine prerogative, because he showed
his fellow countrylnen, how by means
of a lightning rod they could protect
their lives and property, We have no.
thing but pity. Lightning was .
means provided by the Almighty to
punish the sinful and wicked, these
good people thought, and anybody
who sought to rob 1t Of its capacity
to deal death and injury to those mer-
Iting 1t and make 1t tractable to con-
troll, WAS In league with the devil.
Thomas Jefferson tells In his MEM
oirs of one Of his neighbors who was
'.agin" the public schools because,
when everybody gets so they can
read and write, nobody will want to
work" Bishop Berkely thanked
God there WAS not = printing press In
all Georgia. because printing presses
printed mostly lies and their business
was to deceive the people," Even
10 broad gagged man as Ruskin de-
,.I.r rod tho. ,ntroductiop Of railroads
would ruin England by driving the
stages out and killing the demand
for horses. Peter Cooper, builder Of
tba arst ,oco,notivs operated In the
U,,..a s,.to. v.s made the laughing
tool ~ tho country beca,,se in a the
,,;,a r.ca with an old vrev horse near
p.l,,mora his ho,,er spranr \ leak
and the horse won: Robert Fulton
v.. daclared a fraud nv the boat
,,,., -, tho Hud.on who doubtad his
.h,,,tv n m.ke the ..Clersmont' nav
,..ts IL. ~.tar. nv steam and with
mt the ,.a ~ satls. Arkvrieht who
,,y.ntot the .n,nntnu frame which
,.,o,ution,xad tho weaving business
-, .ho world w.s ,nohhed and lao
o,.,d whose loom 4. .ttIl the worlds
,,.nd. ri came near beinv thrown in
IN tho river nv an angry crowd OF IA
hr,c workars who feared his machine
von,d destroy their usefulness.
Tho ;nvention NJ Elias Hove's sew
inn machine caused a riot In New
york and a pennsvlvania woman
..id ~ Same, Morse,s telegraph.
,whi.h anancisr. Of wall street he
iiav.d impractical and refused to fin
.nce. ~ supnose no one can spank
their brats now without the whole
wo,,d knows i.n Alexandsr Graham
paIrs te,enbope was said to be toy
until tho Emneror Dom Pedro. find
inv n in a corner Of the Centennial
E1nos,tion at PHILADELPHIA, pronoun-
oad ~ ono If the marvels Of the age,
. ~ ,o.,a..ad