The Washington times., 1920-07-11

to do business Anginssrs architects men digging with
picks and shovsls dynamite exploding, steam ntssgs
glass filters, roof makers, all the other PRODUCTS
OF HUMAN THOUGHT combine, and building thirty
stories high Il erected Thsn you have working
face of ten thousand multiplied by thirty, or THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND square feet.
The space that he got from nature tho earth 3
face, gave him room for nifty workers at books
machines. The skyscrspsr, MULTIPLYING LARTHs
SURFACE, gives him room for fifteen hundred such
workers
One single office building in big city has populs-
ton Of more than ton thousand human beings during
working hours. Two millions moro can work In the
heart Of city covering space that in tho old village
system would have supplied room only for few thou.
sands at most
It il interesting to think how tho old cliff dwellers
with their movable ladders their holes in tho c their
rocks to roll down enemies abls to solve their
problem and build up their primitive halfway oivilisa
tion by staying in tho same place.
1t is intensely interesting to see in tho syscraper
on the loft the solution Of modern business the gath
erng in tho morning of millions working close to each
other and their scattering at night
There are in tho far north and in distant islands
places where birds gather in millions for the Matching
season then spreading their wings fly to di'ant parts
Of tho earth.
You 500 in thi, picture the ancient city, tho men
living for safety high up above the fields where they
work These are the cliff dwellers.
You see on tho left the building in which men for
convenience live crowded together high up above the
earth behind glass and Steel talking to each other by
telephone flying up and down in elevators any Of
the million able to reach and talk face to face with
any other one within ton minutes You know that they
live away from this great building but close by.
You or your children will live to see the day when
human beings will gather in great cities Of steel and
glass perhaps in specially built cities Of ONE SINGLE
BUILDING: They 60 to work in the morning on tho
wings of flying machines going away in the Afternoon,
the birds 60 to and from their Matching places.
The cliff dwellers' life is far behind us. The Office
building life, with the daily struggle to go and come,
night and morning, il our life to-day.
The other, better life in the central spot for work
in daytime flying from distant mountain tops, flying
back again. will be independent Of distance ndepend
ent Of street and elevated crushing That Is the life
that is coming
What wonders the human racs has accomplished,
what marvels it will accomplish before the suns heat
dies millions of years hence to leave this little earth
frozen and dead rolling on, waiting for cataoiysm
to break it u scatter 1t in cosmic dust later TO start
over again.
Great indeed are tho worlds accomplishments Let
us admire them but always asking ourselves, what
have done7" What is MY contribution?" "Havo
I done ANYTHING so far? Gan still get out Of tn,
common crowd that merely spplsud while Others play
" First your must UNDERSTAND second be fred
with AMBITION, third comes ACCOMPLISHMENT
The book you" written by Irving r. Allen, AMI
published by the Cosmopolitan Book Corporation in
New York City, gives you one idea that is well worth
hundred times what the book costs. On page 18, at
the beginning Of the chapter headed Building Belief"
you find this:
"To illuminate q room in your homo you don't
pull back the curtains to let the dark out
"You throw back the window coverings to let
light inr'
The room here mentioned is the BRAIN OF MAN.
In dark you raise the curtains, open the blinds.
lot IN the light Or you light light At night and OBJ
tain light in that way.
With tho human mind you do both You opon your
eyes and your to let in the light of knowledge,
and you LIGHT LIGHT, by reading good books.
It is fact that many human beings, especially
those that dident and modest, feel they do not
know that the Of the mind is dark They have
sort Of idea that they ought, as Mr. Allen puts it.
"to let the dark out"
There is no such thing as DARKNESS, just as there
is such thing what call COLD. Cold is the
ABSENCE Of heat negative thing only, and darkness
is the ABSENCE OF LIGHT
The savages whose ancestors thousands upon thou
sands Of years ago built these cliff dwellings watched
tho swallows in the clay bank, the birds on the cliff
their minds were Open they let in the light Tbey built