San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-08

music together, the young people
could ignore it, or listen occasionally
and hear the story of the operas told
by the ''broadcaster" while, as he
said, @the artists rested and received
their well deserved applause"
THAT thunder of applause, excit-
= ing and stirring could be heard
in hundreds of thousands of houses.
in the crowded cities, far out on the
farms.
The world has never known. such a
miracle as the miracle of the radio.
And no man living knows what radio
and moving pictures combined are
destined to do for education.
As railroads shortened mems jour
neys and telegraphy shortened trans
mission Of messages, so radio and
moving pictures will make shorter by
more than a tenth the journey along
| The tiresoma road of knowledge.
MCMILLAN, 3700 miles away in
fSA the Arctic ice, called up and
interviewed, by radio. answering the
Associated Press questions with his
|pwn broadcasting apparatus.
Later. when he starts flying, Mac
MILAN will be able to answer ques-
kions by radio while in flight.
re- men can do that now, how soon
will they talk through the ether
% those cosmic flying machines, the
planets, floating in space?
No static or other trouble presurn-
hbly, once you get outside this
earth's atmosphere, only about 800
miles deep.
IN our Civilization" human beings
y and their bodies are modified
pidly. Every one knows that ex-
rcise and sensible food have made
|nodern girls much taller and strong
Ir than they were and. thanks TO
Education. their brains and skulls are
bigger.
J. ID. Patrick, portrait painter,
/ lays the American girls nose is
Eointing upward, her eyes getting
|ounder, her mouth going up at the
orners. Among savages. where con-
Eitions are stagnant, there is little
|hange.
At Cape Town university in South
|Ifrica doctors recently dissecting
body of a native, found that the
ative had typical "Boskop' skull,
be bind found in fossil form dating
aek to the ice age of $1,000 years
| 20.
|HHAT changes will come in mems
Nv minds and bodies in the next
ew centuries. with the flying ma.
Dimes, radio, moving pictures, ETC.?
Professor Haeckel suggested that
ben's eyes would become specialized,
ne trained to use the microscope,
he for the telescope, both together
icing nearby things as they are.
HURS is a civilization interesting
bv contrasts although thPv are
BIT what they used to be in olden
kys-slaves under the lash, gladia-
RS in the arena, epicures eating
ghtingales' tongues, Cleopatra sail
X with her friend, Anthony, down
e Nile.
FOR instance, consider the father
who lives in two whitewashed
oms in Jersey-no need to in
ease his troubles by printing his
,me. Out Of work, he was worry
Z about feeding seven children day
fore yesterday. when the neighbor,
HE'D in ito help his wife," an
unced triplets, making the number
his children ten.
THAT father, waiting for the trip
let's to be born read about a
gnificent new mausoleum to be
liz by combination of churches,
cost three and one-half millions,
b provide a resting place for
tpses, properly embalmed, and put
az in their little inches.
rhe mausoleum will not have
itewashed walls, but fine marble
ish.
yHEN churches ask, "Why are
q VIC crowded. one answer
sht be, because, while mothers Of
ldren lack decent housing, you
lid $3,500,000 mausoleums for
pses, that might as well be put in
ground to add to its fertility,
carried up the chimney of the Gro.
tory, putting back into the air
nitrogen they took from it.
buId the founder of Christianity,
had noFhere to lay his head,
scribe to that mausoleum?