Show I- I Today's Romance Is in iii Engineers' Engineers F Feats ats Editor The T Telegram legram 1 For 01 some reason human beings seldom 1 seem able to o recognize ro romance ro- ro mance when they see it It can 11 tIe right under our our- noses and we e wl wilt miss it Instead we look far afield to some place where r we can never neve go and spy It there T The e old time old time Mississippi 1 riV river r Steamboat er ent eril is generally considered considered considered consid consid- ered on one of ot the most romantic cOl- cOl things in fri our history n It is gone forever the river today Carrie car carries Car ries rie more more tons tone of fr freight ight annually than ever eyer before but it does it by hy barge and tugboat and nd the ga gaudy dy p packet ships of f Mark Twains Twain's d. d day y are little b better than better than memories s. s Thus most Jl of t is us seeing how modern efficiency has killed this particular kind of romance romance take talie It for granted that this is a a. prosaic age afie Yet all th the while right In front of ot our eyes eJes there ther are happenings happenings happen happen- ings lags in Infinitely ly more mord romantic and d dazzling than the whole saga of th the storied stoned d river In n Detroit for instance nce a. a re g-re great t bridge is ts being thrown across across the river to join Detroit with Wind Windsor ol Ontario Its towers rise skY skyward td dizzily the hu huge e cables that will bear its weight are cunningly woven woven WOy en affairs of countless cO small wires its foundations go far tar b below lov the surface of the ground It was little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than yesterday that this grandfather of all bridges was first suggested suggest d t tomorrow morro figuratively ly speaking It will b be open for or use To the southwest In hl Boulder canon can can- V c can canyon non n- n yon on engineers are are preparing to construct a dam This dam darn will V protect a a. whole inland empire empire- fr from m floods It will wUl add dd thousands sands of ot acres of fertile land to the n nations nation's Uon's harvest fields It will yield eno gh w driven water horsepower to supplant sup supplant sup sup- plant half halt a a. dozen coal mines Where put a a. desert and ft e. waste there will shortly be a rich farm land and a a great treat source of ot power power for Cor industry Those are just two examples one could quote a a. dozen more at ran ran- dom doni They are re extremely cant far cant far more so than thai we Imag- Imag inc ine For they are our romance What are are ih they ordinary bridges and dams Not ot o at all ll The They are symbols Symbols of modern mans man's tri triumph mph over er The earth that used to be so vast and donit domi- has grown small and weak weal Man lan has conquered it There Is nothing he cannot annot do to It He rearranges it to suit himself By fly the strength of his machines and the cleverness of ot his hiR brain h he is beginning to prove at t last that he lie it Is what he has called himself tt lord of ot all creation It is not ignoble Lot for us to t take ke pride in the things we ire make of stone and steel and end concrete The They prove ou our capabilities which are rc limitless They give gr grounds for hope that some ROme day dayno we no shall be able abl to do equally well in the tangled tan tan- pled strewn tragedy d strewn field fiord of ot human relations STUDENT I |