The Washington times., 1918-07-15
Science Is Mans Greatest Friend
It win Solve His Problems Eventually by Abolshing
Them. -

mare or less fancul occupation unineresug to the gen
eral public
exploration, which means understanding Of the appca
ton Of nature forces from the point Of view Of the
masses the most hopeful thing in our civilization.
we could have some years ago scientific gen.
Heman experimenting with ammonia and other materials
for reducing temperatures should have thought that he
Go down along the shore Of the Atlantic and find
a the hard-worhng colonies Of fishermen.
Of h and carried It to town All Of tSs sSssn @riv.d
there together to compete with each other They all had
supplies of fish at the time Then the Dealers having
them at their mercy gave them almost nothing for it.
or even compelled them to throw it overheard the
catch small the price of fish was somewhat better in
spite Of the dealers organization, but the fishermen had
little fish to sell
Now the fishermen points out to you on the shore a
few yards away from his nets cold storage plant that be-
find out what price they can get for them, before taking
thsm to market they too cheap they put them in
cold storage and wait for the price to go up that they
be deceny paid and not give all the profit to the dealer
Science helps the truck farmer near the big cities he
Is uptodate and especially he is lucky enough to live
in neighborhood where cheap telephone rates prevail
Formerly the truck farmer loaded up his produce and
When he got there he very apt find that everybody
else had brought Just what he had brought and that he
advantage Of the producers competition among Themselves
Now the truck farmer before picking his berries or
cutting his lettuce or pulling his peas gets hold Of his mid
deman the telephone and makes his bargain for cash
to be paid the following day for such and such produce
BE longer drives to town to find that he can get nothnpI
for his goods to haul them back throw them away
This Improvement Of course in the condition Of the
farmer viii apply much widely when the gentlemanly
thieves in control Of the Telephone Trust shall have been
brought to book and when the telephone shall be made
real benefit to humanity through Government municipal
ownership, instead Of a means Of extortion.
II we should solemn old man in spectacles study
ing insects through the microscope or setting tiny
ture to fight another, what should we think Of him?
We should probably smile induRently and say "He
does no one HARM but Of course he cannot be Of any
PRACTICAL value" !
But these scientific students of insect lfe so much
made fun OF in comic papers, are most important workers
for good.
The boH weeviI for instance has been DESTROYING an
nuay than forty million dollars worth of cotton A
certain insect student Prof D. F. Cook has found an ant
that win destroy the boil weevil We make fuss al
Carnegie or Rockefeller who gives away million But
here bug professor who makes his country present of
more than forty millions yearfOrever his is
The cultivation of oranges in Southern California was
at time threatened with extinction parasite deposit
ed upon the tree spongy mass.the cottony cushieny
ed by this that intended food for the parasite
young after the Matching of the eggs.
scientific gentleman discovered that the ordinary
red 'lady bug called by wise 'pedoLa cardnaHs -
would destroy the eggs Of the orange tree parasite and thus
save the tree That simple discovery followed by the i'm
poon Of several colonies of Lady bugs preserved great
and important industry.
Science one day viii solve our great practical problems
by adding infinitely to the production of wealth to the ef
fecveness Of labor to fertility Of the soil (as yet not
oeNSlOPeuII GO VI
al directions AVarice greatest curse will disappear
when science shall have made it impossible for any willing
man to lack the comforts of life.
Science viii cure our diseases stamp them out
e plow fields make the independent of the
selhsmess of the few
But do not fear that there will be NOTHING left un-
done after science shall have done its work
Science cannot MAKE better Men cannot think
BY machinery or improve in morals by machinery
They viii have to work out their moral and social
salvation through their own intelligence
The abolition Of poverty and Of avarice, however will
DO away with majority Of the incentives that lead to evil
Science wiz make it easier for to be good men, even
cannot MAKE Us GOOD
Respect hereafter the wise that grind away at
science Follow their doings respectfully in the newspapers
When Lord Kelvin Marconi among Us, let US