The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-02
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By 1860 we shall come near tc
having just about perfect world
This is according to the analysis
and prediction Of a group Of men
writing for one of the most careful
and studious groups in the United
States.
| / would like to add an IF.
The forecast of the world to come
is based upon the wonder perfor-
mances which scientists will ac-
hieve through atomic research.
What these writing men produce
all adds up to probable accuracy,
Health will be better. A span will
be added to human life. Vegetation
will be better and more abundant.
We shall have ceased to worry
about whether or not we have en-
ough coal and oil. Happiness will
be increased, because more worries
will be eliminated. and more dan
gers will be conquered.
But, about that If. Whoever put
the word "if" in the language sure
ly gave us a word with which to
raise all manner of old Harry!
We can have this new world of
wonders, undoubtedly, IF the
greeds of the human race will al
low science to proceed and IF the
greeds of some parts of the human
race will allow us to have peace.
1t is a strange thing that the
fission of the atom, which showed
us how toblow whole cities into
perdition, is the same thing that
brings us the promise of the Won
ders to come.
But we can have the wonders
only IF we can do without the de-
struction.
At the moment another war
seems too likely to permit a lot
of optimism about the wonders to
come.
The situation is precarious and
that almost puts it mildly, al
though | know there are many who
will disagree. But regardless of
them, the danger is acute.
1t will be ever so much nicer if
we can have the wonders that are
promised.
The mere promise makes US long
just that much more for peace.
Not only are we promised a more
abundant land, but we are told that
even the deserts can be made to
produce as abundantly as the best
of land.
Power will be abundant. Diseases
that now BATTLE medicine will be
Hardening of the art
cries will be no more. Calcium de-
posits that cause SO much agony
will be blasted apart and washed
away. Senility will become almost |
and men will pass on
when they have reached their ap-
pointed time, without having to go |
on through last years of crippling
and agonizing diseases.
1t is wonderful to contemplate
and soul-satisfying.
All this, IF the human race has
sense enough to permit the develop
nent of the wonders that are in
sight.
This is perhaps the most astound-
ng and important IF in all his
ory.
Observing the IF is war, we shall
lave one other important item to
adjust and that is distribution.
If science can give us the plenty
hat is promised and promised evil
lently with good reason, we must
ind way to eliminate poverty.
There will be no really great
Utilization, even with all the won
ers that may come, if there are
,reat islands of poverty.
For in poverty, do we but know
t, always lie the seeds of destruc-
ion.
Today more people than ever be-
ore are paying prices higher than
yer before.
But the number of those whose
ncome does not meet the needs
J growing, strange as it may seem.
Iere is a condition that most eco
omists ignore or fail to see.
But it is there and it's existence
subject Of proof.
How strange that we look to-
ard the greatest abundance of all
me, while our subsistence line
ses higher in the population scale
nd while the whole thing is men, |
ced by the ghastly threat of a war ,
lat surely will scar the world for
yer, if, indeed any great part of
is left able to function in civilized
ashion. Q
1t seems more than high time v
lat the human race got some sense 2
it's head. il