Show Foundation Builders 1 By JOHN BLAKE BLAKES S Before Before- tall tan building or cathedral begins to rear Its walls in the air so that n me-n men can see and begin to marvel at its its' future magnificence and beauty baut ut men must must- delve deep In In the earth io to lay Its t foundation i This This' Is not plea pleasant ant work Th Therea for S them none of or the jO Joy that the builders of or the superstructure super super- structure get as the they see ee the the walls or towers taking shape 1 S Sheavy j i Heavy y stone must be plied piled 4 on ot heavy stone plastered plas pas with mortar and made ready roody to bear mor niorA morI I hea heavy vv stones atom I The Job IB Is about as ns Interesting a Its as must be that I of the coral Insects who upon a pile of other coral Insects and die an and l fossilize there until at last an island land can thrust Itself above the ocean I Yet foundation building has been going on since th the beginning of civilization and still continues I We 0 who live ile today can cn s see o something of the work that we do we can see edifices rise In the theair theair theall air all with their cornices a and nil towers and some of us is who are fortunate can cnn he help to shape those cornices I and towers J Ji i But BIH the first man wl o piled stone upon stone f to tl build a habitation t that tat a t would keep leep the wild I animals awa awa was as one of or the foundation builders of t the he modern business building or church or p palace I lIe He could COUIl neither see nor nor dream of the work I that was to be erected upon what he lie was building Nor did he In truth much care about what was Wa to follow folio beyond the discomfiture of the wolves when the they found that the they could not get at him But today with many of the buildings that were wece founded In the past standing about us us we e are still stUl slowly building foundations for the future and end we are fortunate that we can dream of that future and to some extent realize It before it was built bunt S I j was recently asked what possible s service to the world orld could be done by the expedition of Professor Beebe to the Sargasso sea To seize strange creatures crea- crea tures from the deep and classify them seemed to my I questioner of no possible use to the world 1 I told him hini that such expeditions and such men men had reared the whole fabric of science and It Is on science which means exact knowledge that the whole hole fabric of oC Industry is reared Professor Beebe is a a. foundation builder and a aI avery very erv useful one On the discoveries he had hael made and is making I other men will vill build and slowly all n that we are arel l permitted to know about this universe will be known That will mean the end of disease the prolong prolong- I of or life the promotion of happiness and t e dissemination dissemination dis dis- of beauty It It- will mean the end of war and of quarreling I It will bring the world a as close to heaven as it was Vas ever eer intended to to tobe be by the Creator perhaps It I will establish heaven itself on on this earth Every man who does useful work with the object of adding to the sum sun of human knowledge Is a foundation builder lIe He may never be able himself to use the knowledge he lie has gained but he will teave behind him as material for Tor other builders and as surel surely as the world goes around will it be used to increase 01 lie h sum of human liberty and andI I hap happiness S |