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J I PM A C 6 REPORT C Dobson b I f k Ae he ud 50 Years r I am thinking today of th the changes which have taken L' L place in merely one area o or of activity since I was a boy namely name transportation STARTING WITH OXEN II I M My grandfather cut cord coid wood rood and md hauled it into Glou Glou- tester rester on an ox sled I r felt fell very Scry cly smart when I could drive the oxen guiding them with a aStick Stick tick This was my first ex cx- in transportation My father later started a store and had a coupie cou cou- couple pie pIc of horses to get gel goods to Ins customers Often he took toe line on these short trips and I learned to drive horses Ultimately Ultimately Ulti UHf I I drove them in races on the Ule ice This was m my second second sec sec- ond and lesson in transportation Finally when I got married 1 I bought a I new automobile i Ii I I which Henry Ford was just pulling on the market for cash I later knew Mr 11 Ford very well and he told me it jt took him ten years ears to raise to start the Ford Motor Motor Mo 1 tor Company Compan in 1900 Later he hc had me as his guest when he manufactured his millionth 15 automobile He surely was a a. a wonderful man and remade America During more recent years I traveled tra continually in m the trains with steam locomotives es that are now curiosities My Iy trip tomorrow will be from Orlando Or Or- I lando Fla to Boston in four hours b by jet compared with the day an and a half it used to take me by train tram Or I am amable am amable amable able to cross the ocean in a afew afew afew few hours by jet against afew a afew few da days s 's by boat 1 t DEDUCTION OF T TRAVEL Gradually travel will hill decline decline de de- cline dine as our imagination is de de- de- de eloped In fact as the population population lation laUon increases this will be necessary Experiments are arenow arenow arenow now being made in connection with Chr Christian stian Science parapsychology para para- psychology PS telepathy etc which should be encouraged We Ve will soon be content to imagine the places and persons persons per per- sons we want to visit or talk with This This- will be commonplace commonplace common common- common common- place 50 years ears from now Our imagination gJ tion will be c com o m e e. stronger aided by TV TV and photography and we will travel travel trav trav- el less but use the telephone much more CLOTHING AND EYESIGHT We know the bill billions ons of radio radio ra ra- ra dio waves which are in the tile air wand and in the rooms where this J column is being read Yet out our doming clothing ng partly insulates them from our bodies Perhaps our lothing should contain minute wires ires serving as millions of antennas This might free 1 us from ailments such as ar are weak heart and blood troubles Many 1 of oC our ph physical illnesses may be due to lack of oC radio waves Another field in which I be bc- lieve great developments will take place is the use of magnifying magni magni- magnifying f ing glasses I 1 am having baving on one made now three feet feel in eter Our eyes arc a wonderful wonder wonder- ful furl possession and something rea really II revolutionary could be developed in the way of oC magnification magnification magnification mag mag- to help ease the strain which all aU of us place on our overworked o eyes As I have said in previous columns however the greatest changes will come about through some sonic form of television Before long TV will give out sunshine and i also transmit sunshine By pressing a button we will be beable beable beable able to fo get gel heat or light or air conditioning via television POWER JOWER OF THE TilE BRAIN DRAIN Psychologists tell teU me that the brain is used at only about aboul five per cent of its ca ca- Many 1 reading this col col- rune will live to see our educational educational edu edu- system entirely Young people will be trained rained to think and reason We Vc may not need to pay thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dollars for or a data- data processing machine when each of us carries in his head a machine superior in efficiency and nd power Professor ProCessor George R. R I. I Harrison lIan-ison Dean of the School of Science at MIT 1 in Cambridge Mass 1 has written writ writ- ten en a book which every edu edu- educator cator ator should read If II I during my ny lifetime have advanced from rom driving an ox team to riding a jet plane is it not reasonable that those who are young oung today will see similar progress Chemists tell teU me that great eat changes will take place in the food we cat eat It Il will become more tasteful more digestible m more re healthful and free from any ny poisons It will be illegal 9 use certain insecticides One biologist even claims that soup manufacturers may collect col- col ol lect lect and can insects instead of killing them These are just dust justa dusta a few of the thoughts which come ome to my mind as I look ahead head 50 years either the insects insects in- in sects will ill cat our food up or ore we e must wake up and eat eathem them up the hem up first |