| Show 6 I r The Unconquered Sea i iBy By JOHN BLAKE One often oCten hears I When h n man has conquered the skies akles as he Is rapidly doing his mastery of the earth will be i complete 1 But man has not conquer conquered d the sea And not In the lifetime of anyone anone now living Is he likely to conquer it it Marvelous has been the progress of st steam am navi nay gation a few weeks ago the captain cr crew w and passengers rs of a great reat transatlantic st steamship were obliged to look on helpless while a t little freighter overwhelmed o b by huge seas went vent to the bottom with all alI on board To have tried to a lifeboat among those slant glant ant billows would have been like trying to climb Niagara falls Nothing human can live lle in the seaway piled up by a fifty or sIxt sixty mile gal gale Xo No known to man is capable of rescuing people who have be been n hurled into it The writer In 1903 1908 was on a substantial slow- slow going transport which In the Ba Bay of Biscay responded responded re- re to th call of a vessel in distress The vessel a small freighter had Jammed her steering gear and while the crew crew was working frantically to repair it was tossing about like a af f feather ather on seas which app appeared ared to be fifty feet high but which were probably much less Four Pour times our ur ship floated a cable down to the little craft and four times it wa was caught carried aboard and made mad fast But as soon as the waves s swung one of the tl tethered hered ships one way and the other in the opp site direction the the- cable snapped like a thread There could have b been en no launching of life Ufe boats A life raft had it been put over would have been I swiftly carried beyond the reach of any men In the water vater It looked like an impending tragedy for the smaller boat seemed to be filling tillIng and it was Impossible Impossible Impossible Im Im- Im- Im possible without a rudder to Keep her head into the sea fortunately the steering gear was as repaired in a short while and she went vent safely on her herBut wa way But Hut that experience convinced those on board our vessel essel that man mai is but a puny creature wh when n he goes down to the sea even in the biggest ships and that a great deal of thought and engineering experIence experience experience must be expended before beCore the sea is safe But Hut the thing will be done If Indeed air navIgation navigation navi nay gation does do away with the ne need need d of mastering the te s sea a. a the time wilt will come when passengers from froma a sinking ship will be taken talen safely to another as the they are now In calm weather thanks to the marv marvel el elof of the radio Men Ien e everywhere are working on the problem of oC making human life safe on land and sea and ar air With fine tIne devotion dc they the spend their thought and their time to the solution of ot problems by which they will vill never profit but which will bring a rich I reward to people who are to live many years ears later Man hm is a marvelous creature and he has lone done wonders with the world word that was given ghen him as an exp experimental laboratory by a Creator who had no doubts as to what he would do with it in time But he still has a great deal of ot useful and fascinating fascinating fasci fasci- I work worl to todo do lo before the Job will have be been n finished I Copyright 1925 by the Bell DeU S Syndicate Inc |
