Show the old settler written from salt lake city my dear san Jua ners j they are strange stories which came to us these days from the press and over the radio winds and waves fire disease and dasas ler spreading destruction in many 1 af pf arts of the world orld but we are ico busy to think a second t lc ie of the multitude that is burned or that is drowned or left homeless it Js is a long stry story of wreck and ruin ruin from which we have a passion to get away as soon as 1 ble to find something more pleas ant to take the taste out of our mouths maybe it is well for us that we are that way I 1 but the report keeps dinning in our ears we get it from the radio from the papers from our friends we seem to hear the echo of it on the wind and men have gone to slaughtering each other like a den of infuriated animals there was never before in the history of the world such wholesale destruction of human life and never such terrifying possibilities to look forward to as at this time so we try in self preservation not to think of it or we devise some temporary web of philosophy by which to soothe our apprehensions A certain thoughtful man who is a careful statistician went thru the daily files of old papers for many years past tabulating the kinds of disasters that are distracting tr the world today and his figures showed definitely that these things have been steadily increasing both in frequency and in intensity they have been increasing at the same ratio that men have been learning how to do wonderful things they were never able to do before science Ls is still going forward at an increasing rate of speed and along with it appalling disaster and the reversal of the rules and standards of safety on which weI we have depended hitherto for aurl our very existence thinking people contemplate it in great alarm statesmen and rulers and masters of industry are alarmed and do not know what to make of it what does it mean the mind that makes no response to this howling challenge is not a responsive mind hardly a responsible mind this means among other things that the philosophy which has been good enough for the sleepy past is not adequate to the turbulent present it must undergo reconstructions and changes as far reaching as the changes which have taken place all around us otherwise it is f fatally out of date now we do not refer to the sleepy past and mean years ago but j months ago 1 the world moves the mightiest of dramas is reaching its staggering climax to sleep now for a month would be eclipsing rip van winkle more than a century ALBERT R LYMAN |