Show FUTURE BOARD AND CLOTHES Mr Dick Dickson on president of one section of the Society for the Advancement of Science in England Eng- Eng land hind believes that the great problem of the future future future fu fu- ture will be obtaining and distribution of food and clothing for the human race and that the problem will be acute c fu a century hence Of Course ourse nations like parents should so so sowell ice well as p possible provide for their posterity We su suspect pe this thou thought ht has been the secret but force behind the land lust of the propelling nations nations nations na na- na- na jt and it 1 is so SQ urgent today fuday with Japan that she would gladly make war on the promise of a grea great t and pi practically virgin territory But we think that Mr Dickson speaking from overcrowded England names too early the date when the great struggle will begin South America and Africa could easily support all the worlds world's increase in the next century then North America is not yet half peopled Again Asia all but China and India has vast areas now lying lying ly ly- ing big idle that will be food producing during the coming century Again most of the land which is described as land under is but being beng be- be ing ng scratched not half its productive capacities have bave lave as yet been called out See what Luther Burbank has done in five ty-five years ears and then imagine a hundred B Burbanks Bur Bur- r- r banks Danks in every s state ste. Again we read the other day a dispatch explaining explaining ex- ex how by a peculiar application of electricity electricity elec- elec chickens were in five weeks prepared for market as well wen as they could be in the old wayn way in n three months Science is opening new new doors daily and the chambers within seem stored with Blessings for manki mankind d. d As to clothing there will ViII years hence be cotton and wool and silk and rubber even as now But why borrow trouble The geologists point out how several times since our world was swung into space it has gone under convulsions which left no animal life e upon its surface Our planet is poised at an angle of 23 degrees from the perpendicular The facts brought to light in the ti zone e the re remains remains remains re- re mains mains- of animal and vegetable life are convincing convincing ing proofs that the earth was once swung so th that t the bhe suns sun's rays struck the north pole directly and Siberia w was s a tropical r region gion Now the rivers are discharging vastly more soil into the northern north north- ern oceans and many scientists believe that when the weight of this becomes sufficient the planet will b be another of those cataclysms cataclysm which are known as geological periods that with it the earths earth's crust will be again shivered and all animal life will become extinct Maybe another of these cataclysms is about due The rhe lesson from it all is that we should not spend too much time in speculating what the future future future fu fu- ture is to bring to mankind mankin but but to do the best we can can for ourselves and for our fellow men every day keeping in mind th that t our lives here are areas as but buta a watch vatch in inthe the n night |