Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-08 | Page 19 | Another View of It

ANOTHER VIEW OF IT I By HERBERT KAUFMAN KAUFMA N. N B ACLES challenge and stimulate resource Themore The morel more difficulties difficulties we encounter the sharper shaper 3 1 we think When loads grow onerous their bearers are forced to consider methods to lighten e burden Shortage spurs experiment We found most of th the valuable materials in general use after sing sin g formerly adequate supplies of other things Its It's human nature to utilize the handiest stores stares 1 Had population never exceeded sustenance wed we'd probably bly still be eating the fruit and g garden arden uck ruck ck of Eden 3 I War performs a distinct service to to economics The Tle displacements invariably bly associated ted with conflicts urge the survivors to dream and strive harder Penury and privation are gruff benefactors but nonetheless friends of humanity I 1 1 The old world will vill recoup its loss losses es at a speed which might not have been attained for decides dec dec- ties ides had not the exigencies of disaster lashed the continent to endeavors unprecedented on this arth rth Engines of every sort sort automatic automatic contrivances which will substitute e for the labor of missing illions illions reclamation on projects scaled beyond previous concept concept artificial artificial limbs so cunning that Tippled crippled myriads will be salvaged for self support support are are already in preparation and will be followed e e. e ar r after year by more marvelous efficiencies Civilization will rise from the ruin purified ever ener energized and vibrant with implacable I I A new v type of mind will vill dominate te trade and science The old order has forever passed gassed Creeds and castes privileges and restrictions h have ve been een fluxed in a crucible of patriotism patriotism- ill 11 ranks beaten to a general level f Jew and Gentile Catholic and Protestant Protestant- hind and landlord merchant and philosopher chem chem- st and financier have found common denominators in the trenches and will return to their positions i Io ns and occupations marked b by experiences which have taught more than revolution ever sought Si Ten million men divided by peace have been welded by war var have traded ideas compared otes notes and prodigiously enriched the community brain f I The wholesale killing of males has so upset the balance between the s sexes sexes that multitudes of women e. e vho whose e ancestors never married I outside their own spheres must seek husbands among peas peas- lints and working men k i The melting pot of matrimony will alloy intensive intellectual strains with sturdy vigorous s Progress is a ruthless chemist and often otten makes us' us pay a horrid price for her experiments J But however vever much suffer we-suffer in the process of ev evolution time regularly demonstrates that he Ife end justified the means H i While it does seem that no possible benefit can can corn compensate p for such squandering of lives and Wrecking of utilities succeeding generations may trace their greatest endowments to this awful hour We d demean mean tomorrow in estimating her potentialities by today's competence Invention kee keeps p pace s ace a ace e with urith n necessity T. T r- r Man has never yet failed to offset his setbacks fj r Copyright 1916 by Herbert Great Britain and ad all al other rights reserved f