The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-04-29
Events In Year Two Thousand And One
Continued from first page.)

won an absolute victory at the polls in
1850 and the world has been SO much bet
ter without strong drink that the question
of liquor has never been put to a vote since.
From the records of the past find that the
government had quite time putting stop
! to blind pigging and illicit distilling, but
| when law was passed making the penalty
| for violation of the prohibition laws pun
ishable by life imprisonment the liquor
traffic ceased
81 remember, II assearted, 'tthat in 1915
the prohibition party was very active and
rewards were beginning to crown their
efforts, but | never thought they would
gain such sweeping victory as you speak
of. Let us hope that it shall remain So
My friend arose and remarked that it was
almost time to eat and that we had better
return to our hotel, at the same time prom
ising to take me out again after lunch, and
show me the airships, giant gliders and
other things of interest. Arriving at the
and presented me with suit of clothes that
| did not feel as comfortable in them, never
theless, realized that l would be far less
conspicuous than before, and l was happy
the stares of passersby.
| Dinner disposed of, we lit cigars and sat
! down for few minutes conversation be-
fore starting on our afternoon sightseeing
trip. Other smokers were seated here and
there and an occasional laugh or loud spoken
word drifted over to us. l noticed that
none of them had newspaper, nor could
l remember having seen any newspapers or
/ E<r, IL,
| mentioned this fact to my friend Charles.
to tell you that if you want to hear and
see what is going on you must 60 to the
hotel News Room, and as we are allowed
to smoke and converse let us 60 in there,
for l am sure you will be interested. :"
Saying which he arose and guided me into the
adjoining room which was darkened and
in which some one with loud strong voice
was speaking. We found seats and as
looked ahead of me saw that was in a
moving picture auditorium. My friend ex-
planned that all the news was spoken by a
| monograph, and that the most important
were illustrated by moving pictures. 1t
/ proved to be very interesting to me. l COM
mented upon the excellent harmony of the
pictured objects and the people and the
spoken words and sounds.
"Surely,' said Charles, "You have seen
something like this before, for [ remember
hearing at an illustrated lecture a few days
ago that experiments aiming to combine
the phonograph and moving pictures were
started sometime before 1915. Of course
they had not reached the standard of per-
lection they have now gained"
l assured him that l recalled to mind
that such experiments were being made at
that time, but that had never had the pri-
vilege of witnessing them.
"We have another novelty that believe
will give you little entertainment, said
he. We have phonograph band. Each
phonograph represents one instrument.
There are one hundred monographs and
the, are all run at the same speed and one
is sure to think that large brass band is
playing, so realistic is the sound. | must
take you to hear it,
We remand in the news room for nearly
half an hour. Then my friend said it was
We decided to visit the airship station as a
starter. On the way we passed a large
magnificent building which Charles ex-
planned was the public library.
cit has very little value other than as
guardian of historic records of past days.
said he. "Our generation is not reading
people and why should we be? Why should
we spend our time at reading when for
few cents we can enter the historic phono-
graph and moving picture palace and not
only hear the phOnograph tell of these oc-
curances but see them pictured on the
screen at the same time? Reading is only a
waste of time. Even our education is OBJ
tanned by the use of these inventions and
we rack our mental faculties far less
than did the school boy of 1915 as he stud
led from dry books which were at the best
only poorly illustrated. His education
was gained mostly from what he read in
printed words and figures. We gain our
education from what we hear from the
phonograph fifty illustrated by life-like
moving pictures. 1t has long been recog-
nized by science that the human mind more
readily grasps and retains sights and sound
than it does mere reading matter. 1t ap-
pears that the anmanted illustrations act as
an aid to concentration, placing the ment-
al faculties in proper form to profit by more
easily learning and remembering what has
been heard. You must agree that in the
less energy spent in obtaining knowledge,
the more power one will have left at his
command to make use of that learning.
A dry bone contains no fat and the
brain that has been worn out by constant
study is far from being efficient when it
comes to the time for action. But here we
are at the airship station and new wonder
waits to greet you" said he, as he shut
off the power and the glider stopped at the
door of long low building. Crowds of
people were passing in and out of numer-
Gus doors of which the airship station had
fourteen. The airship station was about
two thousand feet long. six hundred feet
wide. the walls were forty feet high and
the roof was built of glass and steel in
movable sections which were opened to ad-
nit the arrival and departure of airships.
Everywhere hurry. worry and noise were
in evidence. Each airship had its phono-
graph and each phonograph was bowling
forth in stentorian tones the destination of
its respective airship.
These airships were built on the same
DrinciDle as the plders The metal base