Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-21 | Page 4 | Timely Topics

TIMELY TOPICS 1 9 A aPENDTHRIFT Or YCARS. Th. geologlat la getting mora and mora Into tha current newa. Ha la well worth knowing. Pave th. Texan preparing, the literature for another oil etne. flotation, no on. .1m haa auch a free and eaay ex-panalveneea ex-panalveneea In tha uaa of large numbera. Th. geologlat, for example, estimate, that th. earth received It, elf out of the void and began Ita career anywhere from 160.v00.ooo to 600.000.000 year. ago. He aay. It might hav. been 1.000.000 year, or, again. 4.000,000 alnra tha laat dinosaur mired Itaelf down In a bog and gave up th. ghost. Th. latest glacial period came to Ita rtnee about S6ft centuries ago. ha aaya, and yet It might hava been 1000 cen-turlea. cen-turlea. A ettlaen ao genernua with time ought to be generally gen-erally useful to hla fellow man. Ha bring, home to ! th.m tha fart that. In tha achem. of th. universe, oven man hlmaelf lord of hla realm la only an Incident. In-cident. Ha teachaa that what seems to u. vital In our everyday Ufa, aurh aa peaca and a regular pay day. may mean nothing at all to nature. The planet goea on whirling around tha aun. the plain. h.av. Into mountains, the ralna and tha froat level the hill, to pralrtee, and all that th. human race can do about U la to marvel over th. remorseless neea of th. law of change. ' Tha geologist ought to hava a phllneophy guperlor to that of Buddhiat priests. Contemplating tbe cosmos cos-mos aa he know. It, he may aay. -Wall, what of ItT" what.ver happena to tha plumbing. Tomorrow, he muaea. all plumhera and all plumbing may be with Nineveh and Tyr.. Toledo Blade.