Evening star., 1941-10-10

lization. There are books and plays
and newspapers and photograph
records and speeches and no end
Of things to enlighten the citizens of
5000 years from now on how we in
New York, Chicago, San Francisco
and way points lived in what then
will be antiquity.
There is even a code in the cap
sule to help the finders interpret
the English language. Those who
profess to know about such things
say that the chances are the men
and women of that day will have
just as much difficulty reading Eng
! lish as we Of today have making
sense out of those childish Scrawl-
ings of the cavemen.
What a comforting thought that
is! How soothing it is to know that
time heals all wounds and that
there will come day when people
will wonder how on earth we of the
year 1941 ever got so hot and
bothered over the petty troubles that
beset us.
1t is so comforting that at least
once a week I get in my car and
drive to the time capsule shaft. I
take picnic lunch and a camp
chair and settle down comfortably
beside it.
For your guidance this is the
lunch take. 1t is wholesome but
inexpensive. Two bananas, one of
which Is always a little over ripe
and one a bit green. Two deviled
eggs, wrapped in tissue paper, pref
erably tissue paper from a shoe
box, as Shoebox tissue paper Is al
ways partly absorbed by the eggs
and makes them delightfully."- chevy.
A glass or two Of lemonade in q
leaky thermos complete the lunch.
The first thing think about when
faSten my gaze on the time capsule
is Hitler. 1t makes fellow feel good
all over to know that there will
come time when the mad house
painter will be just a name on a
yellowed paper; name that strikes
no more terror than Attila, another
Hun, does today. 1t makes me
happy to know that when the cap
Sule is mearthed land wouldn't you
like to be around to see what the
folks dig it up look nkeO Hitler will
have been good and dead for CEN
turies.
| My mind moves from Hitler to
taxes. Sure they are tough, and
enough to make a man wonder II he
shouldn't quit the business he is
in and turn to counter1eiting in
order to face next March Is with
light heart and enough money in
the bank to settle up with Uncle
Sam. But 1t rests the soul to con-
slider that the citizens of the year
694l will be more interested in list
ening to one of the Benny Good
man records they'll yank out of the
capsule than the taxes we had to
bear.
After taxes I let my mind wander.
The gasoline shortage. The missing
tank cars. Armed merchant ships.
Neutrality. Strikes. Production.
Lease-lend Price control S. P. A.
B., S. P. A. NJ, w. H. A. M, o. P. M,
New Deal The Dodgers. Fourth
term. Interventionists, isolationists,
fifth columnists, and a thousand
other things that seem so darned
important today.
Then I picture that day when some
expedition stumbles across the time
capsule. "wottinen is this2" the
leader of the expedition will say in a
strange tongue. Out will come the
junk we of today so carefully laid
away.
The papers of the day will carry
stories of the discovery, probably on
page two, and the historians will
try to recall who Roosevelt, Musso-
lini, Ickes, Stain and the champion
wrestlers were. There will be learned
discussions on who ''the buns" were,
and 1t will probably be agreed that
"the buns" were conquering horde
that finally stopped the Nazis.
Let's make q date to meet there
in the Flushing Meadow next Tues
day around four in the afternoon
and be sure to bring your own lunch.