Show vu WHAT DREAMING HAS BROUGHT US This is the he first day of school Do we know our ABCs ABC's A B Cs C's We think we se e do and as school chil chil- children children dren w were told that a faraway fara long far and and- long ago people the Phoenicians lane ians Invented their rudiments Now comes the announcement that we probably have to thank a much old older r civilization for tor the the graphic symbols symbols which making possible the art of o a a written corny corn com ha hale hae ha e done more than any other one thing to advance the human race in brain power and therefore in every other re- re respect respect re respect In Yn near Vichy France FranceIn In a cave dating back to the age ot of mammoths along with beads bone Implements and sandstone vases carvings have been found contaIning the whIch were ere runners fore ot of what we know as the alphabet Scientists believe these to be many thousand years older than the Phoenician symbols transmit transmit- transmitted transmitted and ted to us through Greece Greece- their Rome their source Indeed What of ot It Yo Yon Yoe ask It if you are not Interested in ancient his his- history history history tory Well setting aside the fact that we should not have our pres pres- pres- pres present ant ent day history but but for tor this same misty past there Is this that comes camel home to us with every such new discovery We know so very little after all of or the world in which which we live and of ot the long march of ot events through gone bygone by I ages and ot of of the possibilities of I the future that It really Isn't safe to pooh-pooh pooh any seemingly Impossible prophecy The steam engine the telegraph the telephone and the airplane were all subjects ot of the most scornful ridicule before they be- be became became be became came the accepted facts ot of o every every- everyday everyday day life me What new dreams the mind of man may compass no man not the wisest Is capable ot of foretelling And It Is the the dreamer watching the steam from the kettle tap tap- tapping tapping ping out a D dot and dash alphabet working with mysterious wires and cobweb filaments or lying on his back watching the flight night of ot the birds toward the sun Bun who brings these marvelous gifts gilts of ot invention In to the world orld Let Billy and Sam yes and lit lit- little little lit little tle Molly tinker and Invent strange contraptions It if they want to and dont don't make fun of ot their wild lid dreams Scattered all through kindergartens and grade and high schools today are the tho boys and girls who are going to make the theold theold theold old folks sit up and rub their eyes by 19 b |