The Alaska daily empire., 1921-12-02
Throwing Down the Barriers.
(MeXico City Post.)

President Hardng's message to all the nations of the world through the press, the opening of the great wireless station in New York, has behind it significance broad the field of the wireless tion itself.
 Not only is the world drawing together but the component parts of nations are drawing near to one another. Once mountains, deserts great rivers divided nations and peoples these disappear. ing before the genius of modern invention. Yet the beginning has scarcely been made. The possibilities of wireless telegraphy and the arpane still in the future They are going to lay out the world to suit themselves Enough, however has been mapped out in the present for to picture what the future has in store for the world a whole.
 The automobile has brought the country into touch with the town. It remains for the arpane and wireless telephone and telegraphy to bring the roadless trackless districts, which are far in the majority into contact with the country districts towns and the cities Isolation prejudice, misundeY- standing and racial antpathy have been the the worlds greatest catastrophies; and all of these may De sald to have been caused by isolaon either in territorial mental sense. The hatred mis- trust and want of appreciation for another of nations has been engendered by countless centuries isolation The past century has done wear
 these than probably all the ages that preceded
 let the barriers that nations peoples still stout and tall.
 But the writing is already upon the wall; and the barriers that have long separated nations threaten to soon become as useless the Chinese wall. Gov ernments may stand apart but nations not; for
 the modern means of communication and of rapid transit IS bound inevitably to bring them together and business interest is destined keep them there Where great mountain barriers and broken country Intervene, aerial travel is from five to ten times IS last as any other kind and it has the added advan- tage that 1t often reaches where there no other highways This is of great significance for country
 like Mexico where there is such a general lack of even cecent means of transportation from railway lines. It is bound not only to vastly increase the communication of the country with outside world but it is destined to break rudey in upon the iso
 ton of centuries in literally thousands retired spots III Mexico, in some of which not the Spanish language is heard; and where customs beliefs pre- Judlces and dsrusts the charaet of the local lie These have been very gradually disap- bearing Tor the past decade but the barriers they had raised against the advancing tide of world national
 Ism, as the getting together of nations has been called so formidable that only the present wonderful advance in communication could have been depended upon to make any rapid apppreciable eff ec upon them. But with all parts of the country con- hected with one another by air which is bound to take place in the very future; all sections of me nation should begin to understand one another and Feel that of common brotherhood and fellow interests and destiny which alone can make a nation in the true sense of the word When this day comes as II must in the future all the Latin Ameri- can nations, then Sxico will be in little danger of
 further revolutions; for her national solidarity will be bound to assert itself.