Show i I AUTHENTIC STATEMENT w mee II Special to THE EXPRESS BABSON DISCUSSES LOOKING AHEAD FIFTY YEARS BABSON PARK MASS MASS- MASSI I am thinking today of the changes which have taken place in merely one area of activity since I was a boy boy- namely transportation Starting With Oxen My grandfather cut cord cordwood cordwood wood and hauled it Into Gloucester on an ox sled I felt very smart when I could drive the oxen guiding them with a stick This was my first experience In transportation My father later started n a store and had a couple of horses to get goods to his customers Often he took me on these short trips and I learned to drive horses Ultimately I drove them in f races on the ice This was my second second lesson in transportation transportation tion Finally when I got married I bought a new automobile which Henry Ford was just putting on tile the market for cash I later knew Mr Ford very well and he me it took him ten years to raise to start theFord the theFord Ford Motor Company in 1900 Later he had me as his guest when he manufactured his fifteen millionth automobile He surely was a wonderful man and remade America During more recent years I I traveled continually In the trains with steam locomotives that are now curiosities My trip tomorrow will be from Orlando Florida to Boston in four hours by jet compared with the day and a half it used to take me by train Or I am amable amable I able to cross ross the ocean in a afew afew few hours by jet against a afew afew few days by boat Reduction of Travel Gradually travel will de- de decline decline cline as our imagination is de- de developed developed In fact as the population tion Increases this will be necessary are arenow arenow now being made in connection with Christian ScienCe e para para- parapsychology parapsychology psychology telepathy etc which should be encouraged We will soon be content to imagine the places and per per- persons persons sons we want to visit or talk with This will be common common- commonplace commonplace place fifty years from now Our Imagination will become stronger aided by TV and photography and we will travel less but use the tele- tele telephone telephone phone much more Clothing and Eyesight i We know the billions of radio waves are in the air and andin andIn in the rooms where this column col- col column is being read Yet our clothing partly insulates them from from our bodies Perhaps our clothing should contain min min- minute mine ute wires serving as millions of antennas This might free us from ailments such as arth arth- weak heart and blood troubles Many of our physical illnesses may be due to lack of radio waves Another field in which I believe great developments will take place is the use of magnifying glasses I am hav hav- having having ing one made now three feet in diameter Our eyes are a wonderful possession and something really revolution revolution- revolutionary ary could be developed in the way of magnification to help ease the strain which all of us place on our overworked eyes As I have said in previous columns however est changes will come about through some form of television television sion Before long TV will give giveout giveout out sunshine and also transmit sunshine By pressing a but but- button ton we will be able to get heat or light or air condi- condi conditioning h via television The Power of the Brain Psychologists tell me that the brain is used at only about 5 of its capacity Many reading read read- reading ing this column will live to see our educational system en en- en entirely reorganized Young people will be trained to think and reason We may not need to pay thousands of dollars for fora a processing data machine when each of us carries in his head a machne superior in ef- ef efficiency ef- ef efficiency and power Professor George R Harrison Dean of the School of Science at UT MIT in Cambridge Mass has writ writ- written written ten a book which every edu- edu educator cater cator should read If I during my lIfetime have advanced from driving an ox team to riding a jet plane is it not reasonable that those who are young today will see similar progress Chemists tell me that great changes will take place in the food we eat It will become more t tasteful more digestible healthful and free from poisons It will be illegal use certain insecticides biologist even claims that manufacturers may collect col- col and can insects instead of them th m These are just a afew of the thoughts which to my mind as I look fifty years either the will eat our food up or we must wake up and eat them up first |