The Washington times., 1918-06-10

picture that stimulates the imagination.
This picture is the history of the United States Post
Office up to date
At first the man gaIoped along the pony route
Then copying England, regular mail coaches were put
in service with armed guards to prevent roppery. 49,
Then came the queer ldfashioned railroad the steam
engine on big wheels and the coaches at the back made as
you will notice Just like the English stage coaches
=. Man is queer creature; he initiates himself
When he describes God it is a manshaped God
When he made railroad cars he initiated stage coaches
At frstiust as when he first began making automobiles
which YOU can remember he made them with dashboard
and other foolish things like the oldfashoned gig or car
The steamboat came along at about the time as
the railroad train. 49,
Then came the modern express train highly efficient
and then, with the wisdom Of Government putting In
rural free delivery routes there came the posan Win
his motorcycle or automobile. -
And last highest triumph of ALL comes the flying
machine carrying the mail regularly between Washing
ton and New York city
There is great story of accomplishment triumph
In these seven pictures grouped together you have
text upon which you preach any sermon you Ike as
to the power of and his ability to conquer space time
and all obstacles.
There is Of course always the pessimist who sees the
Those belonging to the cit can't be DONE school viii
say oh yes but the flying machine is uncertain Some
times has to land and doesn't make the complete trip
t is also fact that after the locomotive was first in
vented the Government kept using stage coaches be-
csuse il said quite truly You can't rely the railroad
it breaks down too often. And DID break down often
But you don't the Government using stage coaches
NOW to carry the mail because the railroad doesn't work
And few years from you will not see the Gov
eminent using trains carry the fast mail because the
flying machines don't work.
The perfect road is the a-penty Of room on all sides
and no friction ALI but the heaviest freight will travel by
air soon and ALL of the mail will go by the air route
The story of the postofoe dating back more than six
hundred years before the birth of Christ when the Per-
sian kings already sent letters by regular routes OF fast
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Mans greatest accomplishment was the invention OF
face to face what knew what he had seen discovered
Thus when hundred men went out to explore each
mans brain got the advantage Of the observation and work
Speech was the first great STEP Written language and
the mail carry it. constituted the next great STEP With
the spoken word man tells his neighbOr
Through the postothce he tells the distant friend.
And the carrying of information to distance has been
accomplished in every conceivable way that human in
geuuity could suggest.
There are saTages in Africa that never learned to read
or write able to send messages from tribe to tribe by sig
nails from the hIops rapidly than those messages
could be carried the modern express trains
That was wonderful accomplishment, but only sim
pie warnings or appeals could be sent.
Now the wireless telegraph which is really
other form Of information carrying and like the telephone
and the telegraph should belong to the Government
The telephone carries mans actual words the wire
to the ear.
The telegraph carries the written word over the wire
And the wireless sends it through space at a speed
euuang seven the distance the world in one
second
= Thinking Of mans accomplishments looking at these
pictures you would say that all the wonders had been
worked and that nothing remained.
But the human is merely at the beginning. 1t is
fashionng the tools that it will later in real civil
izatiou.
It is providing the machines that will free from
slavery the scientific inventions that will make man indie
pendent of time and of distance, and free of poverty
An age is coming to last for millions of years. when
all Of science and all Of mans intellect will be used to
make men happy, to make them free.
day is surely coming when such leprous monster
as the German Kaiser will be dead and impossible
as the dinosaur when the heart of Prussia will
purified with decency at lest exterminated by Justice
end that will be the beginning of a real world worth