Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-24
The Worlds "erowins Pains"

overturns" of these days are giving u
new and marvelously convincing evi
1ence that the Scriptures are beinl
Herbert Kaufman looks int
the future. In Woman's World 70
May he refers to the coal strikes il
England and America, the revolution
in Mexico, the upheaval in China, Ital.
ana Turkey in death clutch, and wo
man elamoring for the ballot, as tn
worlds growing pains" He says:
Progress has set for herself
sudden and terrific pace. The
earth has been spinning faster in
the last twenty years than it ever
before whirled. Naturally, there's
a bit of displacement in spots, but
nothing to hurt.
We can't very well apply cleo
: tricity TO a thousand uses, go
shopping among the clouds. uni
: versatile education, introduce
penny Journalism. and give science
a free rein without SOME trivial
consequences.
Old viewpoints are bound to
Shift. old creeds. must give way to
new ideals. society is bound to
readjust its divisions.
The ancient moIds of thought
and economies, religion and gov
eminent, are splitting. Our eyes
see truths, which our ancestors
could not behold and by their
light we perceive their errors and
their inadequacies.
The greatest revolutions that
have ever swept the universe will
break within the coming hundred
years.
Before this century is closed,
the last king shall have lost his
throne, the last battleship shall be
serapped, the last army shall have
junked its guns. East and West
shall meet in n thousand common
causes and the Five Races join
hands in brotherhood.
Perfected wireless telephony and
autobiography mile : a second
trains and airships will condense
the seas and continents into ponds
and back lots
Africa viii become a weekend
resort for the New Yorker and the
Canadian farmer viii press but
ton, lift his receiver and exchange
crop gossip with his son in ST.
IBERIA.
Pain will be banished, surgery
shall have accomplished the relief
of insanity and blindness. Cancer,
tuberculosis, paralysis, will be as
easily cured as sprains and lum-
bago.
There will be no waste in food
nor in land The air will yield its
wealth of nitrates to the condens-
ers and every arabic acre will
luxuriate with vegetation.
/ The stored heat of the sun will
furnish power and warmth for all
humanity. Plaques and pests
will disappear.
Eugenics will regulate society
men and women will mate by
definite laws; efficient organization
will check economic spendthrifty
and eradicate poverty. engineer
ing will solve the problem of conn
petent housing. ventilation and
sunlight; the standardization of
health and of welfare will ex-
tirpate prostitution and crime.
A dream? Not bit of it!
A far-fetched vision? You are
wrong,
No imagination can pierce the
horizons that cloak the tomorrow
from our sight.
The farthest flung optimism can
only estimate a fragment of mans
coming eIories. How can you
sheer!
Turn back and view the fifty
years behind you. What prophet
in your fathers youth would
have dared proclaim the many
magics of today?
Strikes. revolts and wars are
but chips that fly beneath the
chisel of progress.
There will be many wars, mobs
win rage, battles will wage,
tyranny will clutch with strang-
ling fingers, bigotry will plot
avarice viii scheme, but to what
avail?
Man is thinking-for the first
time. really thinking. The will Of
numbers must be done. The few
must give ground to the many.
and naturally we must first endure
few petty irritations.
Society cannot be shaken to its
foundations from a hundred tam
gents a multitude Of revolutions