Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-04

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If YOU are discouraged about yourself discouraged about
the future of the human race considerably impor
tant than yourself look picture of the first steam train in
America.
See he funny locomotive big wheels the standing
board Looking you could hardly believe that the great
Mogu engine would that the electric engine
would supplant the Mogul
See the funny odfashoned characters initiating the stage
coach with in front and man behnde the driver ana
the guard the coach
And observe queer little baggage copy of the
binary express wagon
Here was the first railroad in America The whole
thing looks like parody raoadng to-day Yet to
that time important thing that happened in the
country comea little engine pulled out with its exc
ing load of SIXTEEN passengers.
We have travelled long way this the great rail
road of the United States
The world has progressed considerably since this express
train crawling slowly along the rails announced the beginning
of modern transportation methods
When you see what happened in railroad development
since picture made less than hundred how
can you doubt the power of the the individual in ANY
line of improvement?
When they were starting railroad wise
said nobody could travel twenty miles hour for long
time-without being killed by the speed
We know that could easily five thousand miles
an hour his safety concerned the train
stayed on the track and he in closed car.
An inventor would have been looked upon
as insanity years agohat he arranging the
ocean in fifteen hours with hydro -aeroplane
The only comment made by the is,
WHY FIFTEEN HOURS? WHY such LONG timer
Fifteen hours go three thousand miles with machine
the air without friction is rdculousy long
time
DO NOT FOR MOMENT DOUBT THAT MEN NOW LIV-
ING WILL CROSS THE OCEAN IN THREE HOURS
The human child it has just learned to walk. The
steam engine represented the ptiul first walking The flying
machine the child really walk and is AT LAST
FREE FROM THE POWER OF THE LAW OF GRAVITA-
TON.
The man who built this oldfashoned would have
laughed you you had suggested going from Atlanta New
York train made of steel lighted with electricity cooled by
electric fans heated by steam with bathtubs library reau
rant separate beds covering nearly thousand miles
parativey few hours
few old fashioned individuals you suggest the
flying machine will thousand miles hour But WILL
do it.
Already man has travelled hundreds miles without stop
ping average speed than hundred and twenty
four miles an hour in flying machine.
trip around twentyfour hours
always exactly your happen century
shall ended that will the BEGINNING of
conquest planet will be able go
his possession the earth between sunrise and sunrise big
farmer looks his farm between sunrise and sunset
When you what wonderful changes achievements
miracles possible material things why you despair of
the human and its possibilities in any direction?
the law of gravitaton shall
poverty injustice misery drunkenness and ignorance?
If do what he has done for the engine, the flying
machine and the other material things will he do much
proporonaey FOR HIMSELF when he shall
understand himself and develop himself?
This world of hope of wonderful sudden miraculous
growth and improvement.
And this funny old picture by young
contributor Ella Wheeler Wilcox PROVES 1T.