, 1924-05-14

ileIeu 10 near MIN.
that great weed wizard" and plant
philanthropist" Burbank. Year by
year he has been inriching the lives
of the vast proportion of the worlds
day are found the improved pota-
toes which bear his name. BY his
genius he has added two grains of
wheat to the standard beard, thus en-
rishing wheat growers some $1,000
900 annually in that product. He re
duced the size of the pit in the
plum and added a fine flavor, larger
to. resist change of climate in ship
ment. For the French artists he
produced a flax seed which would
furnish a pure white oil for their
paints, with a 20 per cent increase
i'll oil content. For the japanese
he evolved a mulberry tree with
leaves three times the size of those
then known and brought it to de-
yelopment in two years instead of
the usual 7 to 10 required. Our
American vegetable packers desired
a small well-fiavored sweet pea that
would ripen uniformly over large
acreage. Burbank took a gallon
of the large American field pea and
in six years brought forth a small
sweet pea of which more than six
million cans we're packed last year.
He has taken the thorn off the
blackberry, put size. flavor and
quantity into thousands of other
fruits and vegetables and now, al
though he is rs years of age, is in
the midst of $500 experiments bet
tering vegetable products.
The supremacy of the mind over
the laws of the vegetable world!
Again. observe this %conquering
tendency of mar as he brings into
subsection the forces of nature and
utilities hitherto unused laws of ma
ture. and develops a transportation
system that will tend to revolution
our national life. Major Willim H.
Hensley, Jr.. of the U. S. Army Air
service has recently beef authorized
to announce that a SO million dollar
corporation, headed by the Goodyear
Tire e Rubber company, has secured
the American rights to build giant
airships for transcontinental travel.
These Zepplins are to be made after
the pattern of the German "Boden-
see" which is some 400 feet long.
carries 80 passengers, travels at the
rate of 90 miles per hour, capable
of remaining in the air for sixteen
hours.
From experiences already record
ed of the Bodensee travelling thru
rain. snow or storm it has been
proved hat such transportation can
endure more in the way of adverse
weather conditions than any method
of transportation now known. A
further interesting record is that of
the 10000 passengers carried, not
one was killed or injured, a con
siderable Improvement yer the rec
ord of any other method of trans
portation now known.
Parallel with this factor of mans
achievement is the rapidly develop
ing efficiency of the flying machine.
No doubt within the next few years
these planes will be so efficient, so
easy and safe in operation, so econ
omical and swift in travel that they
will be as common as the automo-
bile is today.
But mans conquering ability is
further demonstrated in the modern
methods of communication and
transmitting of the new worlds pro-
cedure. Not only does the telephone,
the telegraph and the cable link
humanity together as one large fam
lily. but coming into our modern
life with transforming power is the
radio. We have learned hat the
air about us at all times is vibrant
with the voices of our friends in
distant parts, the worlds master
pieces o foratory, of music of reli-
gious expression, all that the world
would utter we are able to hear,
because man has conquered the
hindering forces.
And other uses of the principle of
the radio are startling. They can
be made to govern the steamship
upon the ocean; a whole fleet of
airships can be directed thru the
air without a man on boardi A
short time ago a fleet of French
airplanes were flying over German
territory when suddenly inc mys-
%teriously they ceased to operate and
were compelled to land. Investiga-
ton revealed that n secret German
radio operator was the cause of the
mishap.
Yes, my young friends, man was
divinely endowed to "subdue and
have dominion over the works of