Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-03-12 | Page 4 | Other Points of View

II 1 4 Other Points of View i I ICO I CO COMMUNING TIlE rilE STARS ItS When hen Mr Ir Marconi first told about his wireless feats many man Intelligent and well meaning men gave vent to words that camo back to plague them That same samo gentleman gentle gentle- man is now putting the credulity of mankind to a still stiffer test test test-a. a er very ery much stiffer stirrer test test lest by his announcement announce announce- ment that the time will come conic when hen the people of ot the tile I I earth will be bo exchanging greetings s and n messages wRit with I living hI hIS hIS' S' S beings In stars and other planets Saying that waves es of ot ether are alo eternal Mr r Marconi adds It i Is hl his hiIs belief belle that messages given wing winS on these I wa waves some omo ten years car ago ao are aro still on the way wa to tho the stars and will nl reach them one b by one or million b by million million mil rail lion In due course A year ten-year-old message of or this sort got ot its start of or course cours before tho the present postmaster general got on tho tue job other otherwise lse we should despair orIts of or its ever reaching reaching- even en the moon to s say y nothing of or Venus Vonus Mars ars Mercury Mercur Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and the tho rest In Iii the absence of or a language that Is not goo good all over O the cosmos it occurs to us to wonder what shat the Martians h for Cor or Instance would do o with a message from Crom our own beloved be beloved be- be loved loved- but battered planet If tr ono one should arrive there In goo good order Wo We 0 cant can't imagine a a Martian exclaiming In perfectly good English Id Just like lIko to know lenow what those blooming creatures down own there or up lip there or over o there are arc up to Nor or can we fancy tancy theta them saying anything in iii perfectly good German now no that tho tilo Great t I Beyond an and all its environing regions havo 1100 severed diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic malic relations with William and reared a blockade e around Mind you ou we wc do not say n Mr Marconi will not be bo able to get Into touch with other worlds world but it does look as aa asIf asIt if It ho would have llao to send along a code book an and somebody somebody some some- body boy else to Interpret the Interpreter and so on ad In- In MInneapolis Minneapolis Tribune I 51 te