The Washington times., 1930-03-03
The Progress of Man
Marvellous Has Been Our Progress and Infinitely More
eJr Marvellous 1t WilsBe

TT is good thing for all of remember arvelousy
man has progressed what wonders he has achieved and
what wonders he hope for considering that this is the
first generation in which man as race HAS BEEN ABLE
TO READ AND HAS BEEN FREED FROM PHYSICAL
SUB0RDINATIoN TO OTHER MEN.
II Is horrible to young put in Jail for thirty
years for a trivial offense.
But that abonable punishment and miscarriage of
Justice stands for progress when you remember that only
few years ago. period covered by the lives of two men,
merchant London committed perjury in court Of justice
swearing that the property that young boy under fourteen
had stolen from him worth only few shllngs-under
estimating the value Of the property sworn
that the property stolen by that boy worth dollars
THE BOY WOULD HAVE BEEN HANGED
Il is dreadful to think how criminals how we
add the poverty in infancy the lack Of opportunity
the maormed BRAIN how add all those misfortunes
the browning misfortune Of criminal education among crm
mails in jail and then think that dealing justice
But treatment of the criminal stupid and ignorant
is still stands for progress just that primitive
drawn by the human slave stands for progress For
put in jail for few months for petty crime
and only few generations would take an ignorant
boy Of twelve fourteen for the crime AND HANG
HIM.
Wherever you look whatever question you study you see
progress
Your Imagination camel rolling lurchng across
the desert sand And seated top Of came hump or
lady tired flushed rather seasc-and that's the Queen
Of Sheba the prosperous lady in the world way
to visit Solomon Considerable progress between that lady and
the commercial traveller of today travelling the
nen cooled by electric FAM lighted by electricity getting
air that has been filtered sleeping peacefully and moderately
safe from instant death American railroad
You Christopher Columbus starting out for this
try in tiny boat pushed by the wind today you can
60 all around the earth expense of few hundred dol
lars And you travel on ship so big that its engines could
lift Columbus ship out Of the water and tuck it away
corner OF big deck and not notice the difference in freight
Progress there.
You 60 back only two lives and you find Governor of
great Southern State gloryng the fact that there not
public school in his State and hoping that there wouldn't be
one for hundred years. And now in the United States we
have public schools educating millions Of chdren-and spend
ing several hundred millions year that education.
There progress great progress But THERE Is ROOM
FOR PROGRESS.
Only short time ago worked day after day to
make shirt for man. she worked longer make
the wooen stuff from which later by many days of work
she would make a coat and the rest of the suit
Today child attend to great machine that turns
out cloth faster than thousands of could have turned
it That machine will cohe thousands and free thou
sands of the slaves of the needle Progress herebNt
for progress since undeveloped civilization combines
with marvellous genius of machinery and the great wealth
Of unlimited production the inconcevabe brutality Of child
labor.
Only few years ago. and all the labor this earth
was done by the muscles in the Of by animals
roughly trained and unskiIful
Men chained to their rowed the warshps of Greece
and Rome.
Slaves pulled with their muscles the great built
the pyramids and the temples.
Now we do our work with everything EXCEPT THE
MUSCLES OF MEN.
We blow up rocks the bottom Of rivers with the power
Of nitroglyOerine
We run engines with gas
We run automobiles, pumps and machinery of all kinds
with explosions Of gasoline
We run cur heavy locomotives with electricity stolen from
the clouds and harnessedtha wonderful servant stea
look upon as od-fashioned and out Of date
We pick up enormous of iron and them with
magnets rails that carry trains moved from
place place by these magnets Of them lifted at the
same second by the mysterious electric force the magnet
and no human hand touches them.
We harness the waterfall of Niagara and light the cities
for miles around and the machinery and street
few years ago the rich in life thought only Of his
selfish dissipation and pleasure And dying he worried only
about his own unmpcran and usually worthless soul he did
nothing to help others while he lived And he fooshly left
his money the foolish and doc effort buy eternal happ
ness hereafter.
That kind of savagery has gone Men longer have their
wives murdered and thrown into the grave with them keep
them company above: