Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-02-20 | Page 4 | Hitching Wagons to Stars

Hitching Wagons to Stars i r j 0 t A FLORIDA man is laying plans for r the j construction of a giant rocket in which 1 h li hopes to be shot from the earth to fa the pInet Venus This is altogether a a. a laudable ambition eren though reports thus far published fail to to state just what he c. c expects to do after he lie geLs there or how he be thinks he is going to tog g get gei t back A great many at one time or another another anther an- an other ther have wanted very much to go sailing off to io a distant star Indeed you Jou might say th that t the yearning to do that is every mans man's heritage This is especially true in youth south There are times particularly when one is young t ung and easily hurt when the breaking of illusions is so painful that this earth seems T rather a makeshift planet at best and the unattainable stars shine very invitingly fi t This spirit too is very valuable it It propels pro pro- 1 s men m in all manner of ways and into all alt manner of pursuits It Jt causes some to write to paint pictures to com comp e m music it leads others into paths of of- industrial succeSs success suc suc- c cess S turning them into powerful men of money it sends others into public life making mak ing senators judges or presidents of them 1 I For no one ever rose very far without fist b becoming oming dissatisfied with his surround surround- j ings s. s The desire to leap to the farthest star mut of necessity remain ungratified unless p perchance the Florida man sho should ld find his rocket un unexpectedly practical but in his vain efforts to gratify his desires a man will sometimes sometimes some some- times in spite of himself do good service for fort forI t I himself and his times 2 Z s So perhaps it will be just as well wen if jf Uti this b big g rocket proves a dud If it should be perfected the earth would suffer too great an exodus Not one of us but would at some sonic sometime time or other try his luck on another planet in preference to this one But lacking rockets rackets we stay here and do the best we can and can and ulc unconsciously make the earth a better place jL w i. i l