The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-06
SOMETHING FOR
YOUNG MEN To
THINK ABOi
Washington Times)

"hat is the worlds greatest disc,
cry or invention?
The question is suggested by /
excellent speech of Senator Lodge
Cambridge.
nc senator gave the young m
who heard him plenty to think aho
while they are hunting for situatio,
oi selection vocations or hunting lob
whenever of these things a Harva,
graduate does.
Inc senator led up to the ouestio
OF great inventions by pointing o.
the TACT that skulls of the prehistori
men OF 10000 years ago were inst .
large the brains in them lust q,
heaVy' as those of the present dav
And then he said:
In science we have made imman .
advances, building always on the
ever accommodating store of those wbo
preceded us, and with mechanical adj.
Vahtages always improving our work
But we DO not in pure intellectual
force surpass the men who first
evolved the science of numbers and
by mere intellectual strength devised
the system of geometry which every
schoolboy knows today, or those men
Who' by unassisted thought, with no
knowledge except that which thew
could could gain with their own ewes
developed the atomic theory.
Think for a. moment where the
whole fabric of society, the world of
man. would be without fire, the wheel
or written language; the first work Of
natural force. the last two pure hu.
man Inventions"
Aiong with the nebular hypothesis.
the atomic theory has been thrown in.
10 the discard of science, but the other
discoveries and inventions which the
senator mentioned give rise to the
question asked in the opening line Of
this editorial.
We should like to hear the answer
Mr. Edison or Mr.. Bell or Mr.. Cartv
'r Mr.. Marconi would give.
certainly without the wheel and tho
'rlnclple OF the axis the mechanical
World would become chaos. But is
lot the lever greater than the wheel?
Inc written language is entitled IN
ne prominence that Mr.. Lodge gives
ou' IL was not until printirc.
.f-~ bUvUUU uUU vUU UUUU0o Wv If the
:seInsg 4hould be
,hen tne,~e- 81 slqL SO the teaching I.
lust be by example as we'll as by
rord of mouth. The father who
wears in the presence of his son I'll
annot expect that son not to swear
ven though he may be flogged sound
Y every time no swears. He will
uit swearing in the presence of the ~
aren't but will swear away from ga =,
ONE just the same. NJ
Recently the Rambler noted two ~
asses that brought out character of oe
Dung people very clearly The Ram W.
Ter was visiting a home the other "'
vening when the son, lad Of about ="
years, came in the back way. Not ~
moving the Rambler was in the 81
ront room, he was heard TO say Oh
Mother, you look tired. Let me take ~
ere of the baby while you get sup ~
err He is fretful but if l can get IA
i'm quieted I will come back and VI
clip you ap
Contrast this with another scene =
on Central avenue about NM
Midnight. OF course this was told
he Rambler as he always sets his
oy a good example by being home
arly. A mother was seen begging
nd pleading with her daughter OF
bout the same age as the afore-men-
toned boy to come home. The
laughter had gone mad over dancing
Goth children were from good homes
nd fine parents but-why the liffer.
nce?-St. Petersburg Independent.
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