Show FIRST 25 YEARS OF CENTURY GREATEST ERA INVENTORS PERFECT RADIO AIRPLANE AUTO AND SUBMARINE E EI I Aen t a atoy I toy Ili A ll 1 nO 0 nO ray lly XEA NEA SerI Service WASHINGTON High on oil a frontier hill hili a century ago a thin spiral o sn sent Its Ite message to a a band of ot red-painted red savages crouched In a a forest Around the tho edge edgo of ot the forest slowly laboriously came an emi emi- emigrant emi emigrant grant train tour four or five crudely fashioned wagons drawn by b sweat sweating ing oxen A few swift arrows whistled through the air The struggle was unequal Man fan In his native element had conquered man th the again But mans man's mind proved swifter than the swiftest and straightest of the feathered darts of death or of orUe Ue the Indians The years passed an and the Invader defeated the native StandIng today In the same spot erot where that migratory train met Its fate looking back over oer the century between the man of to- to today today to today day rules as master ot of o all 1111 he sur- sur surveys surveys sur surveys veys He has bent nature to his bidding CONQUER ELEMENTS ELC Especially during the quarter century coming to a close with 1925 has man the Invader beaten down the elements Into inventions t would send man mOon the tho native In flight Hight The inventions inventions Inventions of or the past 26 25 years and their practical development over over- overshadow overshadow overshadow shadow all the Inventions of th the entire race for tor hundreds of ot years previously Before the dawn of ot the twentieth twentieth twentieth century the knife of medical science efficient though It tt was went In with only a a general knowl knowl- knowledge knowledge knowledge edge ot or mans man's ailment aliment But now Ito path Is defined The X X raf was discovered by William K K Roentgen In 1895 In a Paris laboratory In 1898 1896 two scientists worked to give the world a 0 wonderful wonder ul new chemical element ele element ele- ele ment that Is still so rare that Itis It itis is being passed around the world from hospital to hospital where it 11 Is used In the treatment of or can cancer cancer goiter and other diseases ILl value has been put at an ounce The scientists were Proto Prof Pierre Curie Curle and his wife Marie Made Curie Curle NEW SMOKE S SIGNALS Where the red nd mans man's smoke sent Its Us signal Into the sky now stands elanda a 0 huge to tower lr tatter taller t Ile than the highest tree or me ala oia orests From the tower man sends his messages to his fellows In Invisible smoke moke that flashes across conti conti- continents continents and oceans In the twinkling of an eye Twenty-five Twenty years ears ago the world laughed at Guglielmo Marconi and anda anda anda a little group of men who be- be believed be believed In radio Now In many a 3 farm home along the route of the theold theold theold I old schooner train a family sits I around the box that brings stories of the worlds world's work and songs ot of the world at play Twenty-five Twenty years I The World was wae Indeed amused when It read about Darius Green and his fly flying fly fly- flyIng ing tag machine but more amused atthe at atthe atthe the Wright brothers for tor following Darius example To lly was todie to todie todie die Wings to carry man through the tho air Well hardly But 25 years have sped sped and and man mOon tiles flies 8 Man flies files so does doea time On the spot where the first Immigrant train met fate a red school hous was waa reared Twenty years year ago a faced bright boy risked his hilife life ure to get ret to that school house way led across a road that was hardly more than a path with n narrow footbridge here and there across some frozen stream The boy returns today redoY to spend the New Year Yeu with the fam ram family II ily Ili lIe He whizzes In his automobile along a highly polished pavement pa roars roar through a culvert where the theold theold theold old bridge stood and past the tho barn that Dobbin lon long ago gave up to a anew anew anew new fire breathing beast that rolls AIRPLANE ROARS High above the barn another engine hums humi The boy of 25 5 years ago would have run away vay at the eight of this monstrous fly Now 1 he takes out his hla watch perhaps with the thought that the airmails airmail right on time again Steam and gasoline and electric electrIc- electricity electrIcIty electricity ity have changed chanced the world Hero of Alexandria played with a steam toy In 10 B C but It was 1700 yeArs before a practical steam engine en engine en- en engine gine was as Invented A little more I than years ago Fulton Pulton applied the tho steam to a boat and It old moved World old sea s traditions were shot to smithereens when Fulton eTude crude craft paddled along In the tho Hudson McCormick McCormick's reaper Is le nearly ton 1011 years rears old old but It took the of 0 i application of the twentieth I cen-I cen century I tury to roll reaper and thre thresher Into one and hitch a tractor to It to do In a few hours work that once took look long days Gutenberg Invented a printing I press In 1450 A A twentieth century press grinds out thou thousands ands ot of newspapers a minute The work I of ofa a minute In the twentieth cen- cen century cen century tury would have taken Gutenberg a lifetime me lime Daguerre In in 1839 1889 gave rave the world the secret of photography but not until the twentieth century dId man roan turn this Invention to a 1 I common language of ot pictures that today blooms on every Main Street In the world movies And It took toole the twentieth century to learn how to send pictures across the tho land on oft onI the wings of or lightning the photo tele-photo tele tele- tele telephoto photo I TERRIBLE INVENTIONS War nr with Its terrible Instruments ments stands as a blot on the tho first 26 25 years of the century when man mall turned his Inventions to destruction destruction tion lIe He changed the tractor Into a tank devised machines that poured bullets In a swift str stream am invented gas and all aU It if its deadly Im- Im Implements Im Implements and protective devices built flame flome projectors that could sear a regiment to cinders and DIg BIg Berthas from a distance of 76 miles tore buildings and men to pieces Time files and the things of or the twentieth century already seem old But Dut none who lived 25 26 years ago knew what a was wae or a submarine I a or a war tank a tractor an electron tube a hydro hydro- hydroplane hydroplane plane a machine gun a Liberty motor radiotelephony or an air airplane air air- airplane airplane plane The Th world smirked at men who sat Rat tinkering with strange new toys bock back In 1900 But the world has quit laughing at the Inventor and that has been one of the first quarter of the cen century's cen- cen century's century's tury's dearest lessons that lessons that Invention Invention Invention tion Is our meat and nd drink and the inventor Is the hero of 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