Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-30

not TO look backward eighty years ana remlnsce.
but look forward far. This IL very diff
ferent world from that OF eighty years ago IL is q
civilization for civilization depends intercourse
more than anything else. and intercourse was slow
then. for travelled the water with sails and
oars. and land with horses on foot Then. had
the Panama-Pacinc exposition been conceivable, ~
would have taken a year to make the journey from
the Atlantic coast TO San Francisco
The one great invention which has made modern
civilization possible is that Of printing and that In
vention nearly four centuries old, and the power
Of steam 20 make intercourse was Just beins
anticipated In latter half OF this period the
electricity has almost supplanted the Of steam
in the telegraph, the telephone and traction
that II Is easy 20 conceive what more comforts
science and invention add to those which now
any countryman can enjoy
Human thought has changed during these eighty
years. Sociology word unfamiliar at the De-
ginning Of that lustrum We had laws commanding
and forbdding but about the only service OF govern
for the comfort o. the people the postoffce
and highways and the district school-no insurance no
free high schools state universities, no public hos
pitfalls and trained asylums for the blind Or
insane. multitude OF comforts and conveniences
which think government must supply
abundantly must supervise then unknown or
in their beginnings. for socialism had not been
heard Of Things which we now think that we must
for ourselves OF the government do for us,
such sanitation. I'D not then know think OF,
left them 20 the mercy Of God, for God was per-
maps nearer to us then than ne IL now When nave
learned Of the laws of nature. and the
OF the stars; when thought more OF God
acting directly in creation In common life. while
rest more on evolution and the physical
forces which ourselves command; to
the old worshpers OF the gods and gen Of fountains
and forests and and mountains the superior
sence seemed lifted further away when taught
that there was but God and He in the heavens
So. think with thought OF HIS intermediary
laws. God seems not quite near and trust
In these laws and less in special providencee and
pray less. n we believe in Him just the same
am no prophet; but when see train from Eew
York moving westward, l gather that in time It will
reach ChicaEo and Seattle So the direction OF the
past points 60 the destination of the coming future
Beyond question there forces and laws OF nature
yet undiscovered and unutiliEed and there II
why the next eighty years may not surprise
much as have the past eighty and there needs yet
IN anticipation One OF the first OF these IL
source OF heat, approaching the exhaustion
OF supplies OF wood and coal and there possl
BILE sources Of heat In plenty going to waste. The
transport OF coal s bulky and burdensome, and heat
can be carried cheaply by wire as electricity II we
could only set Il the wire in convenient
Tides winds. the useless heat in the tropi-
cal deserts will Of these days land why not in
the lifetime OF the man born todayO be stored up 70
be used in our winters. Why not learn OF those
days 20 warm up a house with windmill? Archi-
modes set hostile gaeys fire in the harbor OF syra
cuse with combination Of mirrors. and better ways
be found 10 and transport to Europe
the superuous heat OF the African deserts But there
may be boundless OF heat nearer at hand
waiting discovery Every chemical combination sorcs
as radium has shown u.s. by the reduction OF ele-
nent to Of less complexity by the loss OF Of
its electrons 1t Is not inconceivable that may
learn how with the disintegration OF substance
bigger than walnut 20 keep house all winter
Our imprisoned chemical forces might blow up the
world And all this IL apart from the OF
ordinary discoveries like the synthetic production of
india rubber and the applications OF electricity
which 20 continue Other things are likely to
develop, which cannot anticipate but which are
suggested by the fact that at present have no
knowledge no use that long series Of the
vibration OF atoms which intervenes between the
slower and the most rapid.
believe that tho next eighty years will show
great advance in the direction of socialism. Absolute
and complete socialism never come with all thngs
for all where welded love was the
sole propriety
In Paradise Of all things common else,
but long step that way Is probable. During the
present the nations that socialism
in extraordinary ways adopted socalisc I'M
both agriculture and manufactures and this can
hardly fail to develop socialism time OF peace Our
government will before long railways and tele-
graphs and telephones and mines and probably control
those major manufactures such iron. and direct
other factory labor TO put end quarres be.
tween capital and labor and the consequent strtkea
The pension system viii greatly extended In such
to transfer TO the government the service OF
insurance companies and the multitude OF benefit
ganisations do not believe that the next eighty
years for many years after private property in
land will cease
Within ten years I believe that will have
ceased TO the nations Il will have died
own enormty. The nations OF the earth now battling
now at peace. viii have agreed that disputes re-
tween nations shall and must be settled without fight
ing and nation that dares attack another will
suppressed by main force Then viii follow the de-
cades OF peace Ia which the ravaged countries will
recover their losses in population and wealth. find
means and energy for discoveries Inventions
devices for the benefit OF the people. new ad-
In arts literature and the creation of a no.
friendship. their border fortresSes rusty and
their tariff wallis forgotten their limits traverssd
freely by flight flood for travel commerce. with
out fear jealousy. Each continent will be. Il
were one nation and China win more harbor sus-
pleioa or against Russia japan.
Possibly men eighty years hence will know les,