Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-01-24 | Page 7 | This is Unusual

F TJ s Is Wireless messages are going to fly across the Arabian desert pretty soon scon all the way from the Red sea to the Persian gulf guif Mecca the forbidden city where temple templo bells chant psalms for those who are believers will have a wireless wireless wire wire- less telephone and telegraph King Ibn Saud Baud has entered into a contract with the Marconi Marcom company for 15 stations Civilization Is sweeping into sacred ground and now when the caravans start their wanderings they will be bc in contact with the tho world outside Of course the old order must al always sI al ways give way ay to the new flew on the eastern desert as well as by the northern lake where Arthur cast his sword when the Round Table broke up forever Progress Is as typical of ef tl adventure ad and romance as any knight that ever wore a crimson doublet and anti rode a white snow-white steed But there are many people in the world today who read with a sense of loss the notice that the wireless has conquered the desert They haven't sat on the golden sands and anti dreamed through strewn star-strewn nights They haven't watched the swarthy faces of ot the white robed sheiks or heard the l softened magic In the rhythm of or their voices They haven't caught the scent of spi spiced d perfumes and Incense when the rugs S swung apart where sonic some Arab pulI pulled d his tent But the very fact that there them was va an outpost far to the cast untouched by anything more than the color of ot their own desires where caravans were as secluded now as the they were in Bible da days s 's has caught the fancy of those who dare to dream When life became too practical too lull full of realism so necessary for success success suc sue cess they could close their eyes and andI remember that somewhere the storied I land lay untouched i It will still be there The caravans caravan will plod their way as they have ha done for thousands tho of ot years But the sense of slipping of off into a medley of silver nights and warm gold days all rudders cast aside will change tho the journey Mo Most t of or tho the people who long to preserve a little of or the old order will never ne ersee see it They must spend their time at desks before machinery back of ot the counter Cairo and md the theare Shallmar Shalimar are as forbidden to them themas as Mec Mecca itself But always they ha have vc one word in their mind Some Someday Someday Someday day