Show v MAN MUST NOT GET TOO PROUD Every now and then when man grows a bit too cocky old mother nature stands up and delivers deliver Ii a couple of healthy wallops that reo re remind mind him he ho Isn't ant lord of at the en entire tire creation after aCter all Man has done dono a great creat m many ny noteworthy things He JIe has bur burrowed rowed through mountains flown through the air alt visited every nook and corner of at the earth harnessed the thc lightning and turned deserts Into garden arden spots But Dut still as of at old lie lr Is s help help- helpless helpless less When alien nature g goes goes es on a raw ram ram pace page lIe Ho has not yet found a wa way lol of chaining the tornado and the llou hours of hurricane Twenty-four Twenty heavy snow still still can tie lie Up tip his railroads and autos cut oft off lila hIs telephone and telegraph lines Jines and I Imprison him him securely In Sn his bur bur- burro burrow row ro Tidal waves will ill still smash I through his seawalls and devastate devas devastate tate the nearby land The sea still takes its lis toll of his shipping For although we have havo made great strides since the days das when we wo lived In caves caes and dressed skins we still are arc on the earth e only on sufferance And It Is quite proper that the bliz blizzards g gales les and earthquakes that have havo hit various parts of our country recently should remind us of at that fact Our ocean liners are breathtaking breathtaking ing creations ns ot of enduring steel yet when th the Titanic disputed the way ot way right with an iceberg she proved as a sinkable as an au old Pho Pho- PhoenIcian Phoenician Phoenician galley Our railroads are areas areas arcas as solid soUd and safe sate as Ingenuity can make them but when a landslide hits a track the next train Ss Is wrecked like an time old stage stagecoach stagecoach coach Our ur clU cities s are protected and aud secure yet Jet when the earths earth's crust shivers a little they topple like the mud walls of ancIent Nineveh Sometimes d lt H seems almost as though nature resents the wayt way r In which mankind has I partially con conquered h her r as though she bided er time lime only to loose her lorna torna torna tornadoes does docs and 1 snowstorms and ocean gails gail's gales when when ihen h he least expected l Irl to remi him that 1 ho still sUIl fl gs io life ie only n y by her favor faor Consider how easily the Uio race might might be le be annihilated A degree 70 70 drop In Sn the tho average temperature little enough when you think or of orthe the temperatures prevailing on some of the tho other would stars stars would do doIt doIt doIt It in Sn a month A single slip lip In In Inthe th earths earth's earth steady spinning on I is s sax ax axis a very small change In the worlds world's atmospheric conditions a avery avery very ery small increase In Sn the suns sun's suns heat lasting only a day or so 60 like the sudden momentary flaring up of flame flamo on a burning slick stick a slight readjustment or of o tho the rela rela- relations rela- rela relations relations between the arlo various s bacterIa that live In Sn and about us any all all of these would leave the tho earth as devoid of human beings as the moon And nature reminds us of or It once jn in a while Perhaps she strIkes with a gale perhaps be e sends us a puzzling epidemic perhaps ps she gives us an earth earth- earthquake earthquake earthquake quake It Is s all the same She Is s merely merey giving us a hint of the remorseless Irresistible forces that cradle our vaunted se so telling us again that life life Is only a t c wee candle flame burn hurn- hurnIng burning ing log alone In Sn the tremendous vault ot at eternal limitless soundless darkness Let us not grow too proud |