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Show Carrying On the Torch j; The European editors who toured the west a few weeks j; ' ago arc back home now, and telling the folks about us. The, 'tre mendous pace" at which we live is "simply terrifying" to E.litor Rene Pimix of Le Temps, a great Parisian journal, j He doesn't see how we stand it. : Well, brother, we stand it pretty well, and we're trying j to speed up all the time. To our notion, we're not going fast enough, yet. v . Maybe it's not that western America moves fast, but that Europe moves slowly. No one knows how fast a man may work. America's speed today may seem a dogtrot to the westerner of 1975. There is little heed, in Europe, for anyone to move rapidly. rapid-ly. The territory and ils cities were "finished" long ago. But America still is building her home. There are only 11"), 000,000 of us, and it's a big country. We have to work at high speed to get ahead of it, let alone keep up with it. , And. on top of that, we are supposed to carry on the torch of science! education, and progress. It's an interesting, : job, but it calls for high speed mental, physical and me-1 hanical. , When Editor Ptiaux, continuing his observations oi the west, says that we are not happy we think he gained the wrong impression. As they throw off superstition and gain a clearer view of their nation, of the world and the universe, more and more people live happier lives. More and more they discover that science and education, instead of mythology mythol-ogy and ignorance, mean progress. To a European, western American speed may seem madness but these is method in the madness; it produces results; it sends .the world forging ahead. And, by and large, it brings happiness to a, greater number of people than does Europe's slower, less imaginative system. And that's the final test. |