Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-12-26
WHAT DOES FATHER
; TIME HOLD IN TIE
OTHER HAND?


establishment, for the sea lies Spain"
We can get all the exaltation which came to
Abou Hassan when the amable deception of
Haroun-al,Raschid played upon him, without
any OF the Ill effects which may presume came
TO him when his dream of power dispelled itself.
The day and the scene invites us to enjoyment,
and to contribute to the " 'ent of Others For
this one day, at least, of Ll ar the golden age
is no myth 1t is here with - and we must uti-
7e it while it stays. This is the hour when lifes
wireless telegraphy carries greetings of good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples of
of the earth. To every one of the world
stretches forth the glad hand and salutes with
May you live long and prosper"
The old prophets conceived the sublime thought
that the Creator set the heavenly bodies in their
places to mark for man the progress of time. The
early leaders of the human race who watched the
stars In their courses and from their movements
worked out the division of the days and years,
left blessing behind them for all time to come.
For IL we are to believe the records Of the rocks
and clays the first men who lifted their faces to
the skies in profound awe and with germs OF
thought stirring in their brains had little if any
more conception of time and of the moving planets
than the brutes that shared with these primitive
savages the or the huts which were all
the houses they had. 1t took long ages to learn
that the sun is a fixed body as regards our earth.
to divide the globe into degrees and the day into
"a hours. The seasons came and went and savage
man had no conception Of why beyond the suns
declension below his zenith and the return of the
fiery orb to a place high above his head. Then
from the crude superstitions of astrology men of
high civilization worked out our year and set the
day that, as this now live, marks the beginning
of new circle Of the four seasons
The crudest savage needed no prophet with
message from the skies to teach him that If he
desired to prolong his life he must work. He
was the man of all generations who knew best
that in the sweat of his face he must "eat
bread" IL he ate at all Stored-up wealth there
was none. Each generation began practically
where the last did with no inheritance to profit
by. Nor was there spark of charity to minister
to the needs of age or sickness. The child born
with low vitality met its fate early In its career
The man who met with an accident sufficient to in
capacitate him for the chase or for war was left
to perish miserably where he fell. When age
dimmed the eye made the hand nerveless the
useless one was not permitted to be burden on
society. AS the wounded deer is left, as the aged
wolf is abandoned so was the wounded man or
the toothless woman. Parentage or other relation
ship counted nothing
AS civilization climbed the path of progress to
higher levels toll became more constant more
pressing. The savage has few needs and there
fore much leisure. He needs no weekly day of
rest. With increasing needs to meet man had to
bend his back more necessarily and to strain mus
cle tendon and ligament. Life had more enjoy
ment at the cost of longer hours of toll that made
rest seem very sweet Then arose the leader of
prophet who ordained that as there were times
and seasons SO there should be days of rest. II we
were to run the world around we would find many
Sabbaths. The follower of Mohammed takes his
rest on Friday, the Hebrew on Saturday the Chris
tian on Sunday. And the man of advanced ideas
who gave man his Sabbath was a leader and
benefactor in very deed
The who stands in the Escorial in Spain
and looks on the sepulchers of kings reaching
back 300 years. has span about as long as the
most ancient history of America. When he goes
to Granada he is face to face with the times of
the Moors, whose invasion of the peninsula was
centuries before Columbus was born. AS he looks
on some paved road or some aqueduct he il car.
ried back to the Scipios to Hannibal and back TO
his forefathers who moved about here: and so
we go back to Carthage, which was a great city
before Rome was founded, and Carthage takes
US over the sea to Asia where Moses people and
some Phlstines came into combat And we 20
back to Egypt and its pyramids to the Pharaohs
and Jacob and his children and on back to Abra
ham and the nomad chiefs who fed their socks in
the rat plains OF central Asia as long before the
Christian era as II is from the year 1911 In these
lands, among these races of men grandfathers
and greatgrandfathers count for little One meets
men whose ancestors took part in the expulsion of
the Moors. with others whose ancestors rneisted
them when they first invaded Spain and stiu
otners whose toroears were in the armies of the
Seipios or Of Hannibal The mind loves to dweu
on the memory of these far-away DAYS and IA
dream OF the way of life of men and women vvho
died so long ago, and to whom we owe orr hs,ny
and our civilization The oldest title lands IN the
racine states do not go back far. There are
titles In Spain that date back centuries Castles
here are owned by families who coma down al
rectly or collateraly for ages To these a pan-
Grafton is as short year to us in our brand
new CIVILIZATION 1t is all impressive but after
dreaming OF such things the mind inevitably re-
YER" 70 oui own generation. TO cur own lime.