| Show 1 4 The Machinery Machinery of Life Lile Jr 4 I HE genius for invention so splendidly manifested In these da days s 's esp especially T THE In hi the United States is s if we look 1001 at it aright the tho profoundest potential potential potential poten poten- for civilization at our command Its efflorescence in the marvelous machinery ma ma- chinery now nov used in almost every branch of or in industry marks tho the present age as tho the beginning of at a new era says a n writer in the tho Forum From Prom now on on civilization should b be certain because machines machine will ivill enable us Ug to free ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves from Natures Nature's enmeshing net of or Necessity Wo We 0 have conquered Space and mastered Time Wo We have made Time our ur servant and henceforth henceforth Time must wait on us not wo we on it We 0 have liberated ourselves from rein tho the drudgery of life and we are now for tho first time In our history In a position to enjoy Leisure in Leisure in a word to live We Ve also have the time in which to take the InItiative in initiative In- In In which we will create It was Natures Nature's turn hitherto she did what hat she fhe liked with us It shall be our turn now we shall do what we wo like with ourselves We Ve hold the Book of or Fate and wo we can turn its iron leav leaves s with our own hands We Vc do not realize it seems to me this great blessing of or machinery Think of or it It does an anything and everything for tor us from bringing bread Into our homes to vibrating the earths earth's s atmosphere with our thoughts It clothes us feeds teeds us us heals us amuses us us singS for tor us transports us thinks for tor us us digs for us cleans for tor us lights lights' up up our cities clUes warms our houses and records our deeds It is our servant in tn the th-e and most satisfying sense Half Hair our lifetime might be bo saved for tor us by these household fairies of ot ours We Wo may recall the southern negro who who when hen he first saw a frel freight ht train exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- ex- ex claimed Well do de white man ma he done first free de do and now he ho done free tree do mule But the whito white man has rot ot freed himself He Is still drudgIng drudging drudging ing still sUll tied to tho the wheel mortar-wheel grinding out a living In spite of or tho the countless time saving labors machinery performs for tor us labors Jabors we once had to spend our lives Hes doing ourselves we still have no time Ume to spare we wo say No Notime Notime Notime time to spare Why If tr we could but utilize this wonderful system of at machines machines machines ma ma- chines for time saving purposes we should live to twice the span of ot our present present present pres pres- ent number of years and every added year ear would be a year ear of at real living Instead we wc waste our genius and our lives in seeking after aCter vain things Surel Surely Surely Sure Sure- l ly we have failed tailed to read tho open secret |
