Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-04-06

has particularly marked the more re-
cent Industrial evolution IN the United
States and. Germany
American Republic Is Model.
In the direction of nation building
of peopling and utilizing for the COM
mon benefit of men the unused places
of the world, the master achievement
of the nineteenth century, was the
building of the American republic
To the twentieth century's aspira-
lions in this same direction is re-
served the privilege of making truly
great and modern natiOr out of the
teeming, essentially democratic mil
lions Of Russia of developing Africa
and South America as the eighteenth
and nineteenth century developed
America of building great European
communities in Australia in South AT
RIGA, in East Africa. in the Niger and
Congo basins and in North Africa of
directing the Decentralization Of
China, with its vast and capable pOpu-
latiOn and almost limitless resources /;
of building a group Of great, power
full, efficient democracies on the
foundations that are already firmly
laid In the republics of South America.
Along with this political develop
'ment will go an industrial advance
whose measure and results must be
judged by projecting into the future
the gains of the last century. Your
industrial democratic thinkers point
out always that the rate of this adj
vance is constantly being accelerated.
Science is more and more coming to
the reinforcement of invention. Pro-
ductive capacity is growing at pace
that moves with the expansion of in
telligence, the improvement of educa-
tional methods, and everywhere there
is insistence that educational systems
must, in the new era, be so imprNved
that the intellectual potentially Of
mankind shall be brought to bear upon
the problems OF the race as never be-
fore
Europe Bears Strain Well.
One of the marvels of these times Is
the fact that Europe is able to bear
the strain so well. But for khaki
everywhere and girl bus drivers Lon
don would look not particularly diff
ferent from the London Of normal
times. Everywhere one hears people
inquiring with wonderment and almost
awe, How does this people carry the
load with so little evidence Of
strain?"
Doubtless the answer will be found
in the fact that, an appraisal of prop
erty accumulatiOns does not include
the value of the new days works"
that every "a hours brings to the
world.
The war is being paid for in great
part day by day, month by month.
Waste is turned from it's peace chan
nels to war channels. War compels
the community to save; to waste less
In the ordinary ways in order that it
may waste more in guns and shells
and battleships and mines and all the
paraphernalia of war.
A philosopher once said that If all
the constructions and plants of the
sarth's surface might be conceived as
being destroyed In one cataclysm while
leaving intact the human race in its
present stage Of intellect and adapta-
)ility, a single generation would see
hose structures restored in far more
Useful practical form. and mankind
would be better for the privilege Of
hat one sweeping reorganization.
Not many people will want to see
he experiment tried. The present war
g near enough to the universal cata-
,lysm. But to the extent that it shall |
each men to utilize more effectively |
he power contained in this great |
tream of human energy, flowing past |
he undeveloped dam site Of each sue
essIve today, it will have made human
fort more important and accumulated
less so.
The chief wealth of the world, after
IL, is its people. Europe is learn
ng this. 1t is getting ready for great
ocial reforms after the war that will
nable it by better utilization of its
uman resources to make up the losses
t is now suffering, and by the econO-
MES IL Is effecting in It's daily life
is paving as il goes for q large