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,A Motor Boat Would Have
Saved Two Lives
Two young men have been drowned in the lake at Pied
mont park this season. The death of both was due to boyish
pranks while boating.
It is easy enough to prevent further loss of life from such
accidents, and the park board should take immediate steps to
do so.
A motor boat on the lake, constantly attended by a compe
tent lifesaver, would furnish practical safety. A light power
boat could traverse the greatest distance in the lake in time to
save any one in peril.
But unless the park board can secure such precaution, it
should forbid boating of any sort on the lake.
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’Wilbur Wright—-Hero of
t the Air
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One More Name That Will Live, Another Grave to Decorate, An
other Glory Added to the Achievements of Men.
As the nation was decorating the graves of the brave men that
won their battles on the earth, the name of Wilbur Wright was added
to the list of real heroes. He is the first great, authentic hero of
the air.
He will he remembered and honored among those THAT HAVE
HELPED TO FREE THE HITMAN RACE.
There are all kinds of slavery on this earth. The slavery of the
body is not the most important. A man can boa slave in his body,
and free in his mind.
Wilbur Wright helped to free the human race from the slavery
of the law of gravitation.
That old law. as old as the first falling atom of matter in this
universe, said to mankind: “YOU SHALL STAY GLUED TO THE
EARTH. I WILL HOLD YOU THERE."
But Wilbur Wright, one of the men that break laws and thus
help progress, defied the law of gravitation. Putting together the
studies of others, building his machine on his own knowledge and
on the knowledge supplied by others—as all successful men have
done—Wright left the earth, laughed at gravitation, flew success
fully, fearlessly, and to the many landmarks of progress that dot
the earth he added the first mark of progress in the air above the
earth.
He will always be remembered and honored. And the world
mar envy him, as it may envv al) of those THAT DO SOMETHING
AND ADD SOMETHING TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND I'o
HUMAN FREEDOM.
Fortunately for the ambitious, plenty of work remains to be
done. Wilbur Wright flew almost as well as an eagle. Some man
in the future will give to the race an engine and a science of flight
compared with which the eagle will he as inefficient as some swift
running rabbit beside an express train.
And others greater than Wright, greater than any mechanical
inventor, will in the future give to humanity THE REAL FREE
DOM. the freedom more important than the power to fly or the
power to dive deep into the sea.
Wright helped to free men from the law of gravitation. Lin
coln helped to free men from the slavery of the body.
The great liberators of the future, as of the past, will he THOSE
THAT FREE MEN FROM THE SLAVERY OF THE MIND.
The law of gravitation tied down the bodies of men to this
earth and forbade them to fly in the beautiful air and sunlight
above us.
That was a harsh slavery and ennobled the men that have
helped to overcome it.
But a slavery far worse is the slavery of superstition, of igno
rance. of mental degradation, that keeps men’s minds in the mud,
that forbids them to fly in the clear and beautiful air of free thought
and free investigation.
The great men of the future, as of the past, will be those THAT
SHALL TEACH THE MINDS OF MEN TO FLY.
The great flying teachers will be those that shall take the
thought of man from this planet to the most distant sun. those that
shall make man realize that he is master of his own destiny.
Those great apostles of freedom and of liberty, the men that
shall guide thought to absolute freedom, are still to come. Happy
he whose name may be included among them.
t>?<3 Wilbur Wright
By CHESTER FIRKINS.
» ND must we lay him also ’neath the sod.
The lord and lover of the boundless sky,
"*■ * Who ever starward turned his daring eye.
Who first the firmament’s bright highway trod.
And. building for Mankind, communed with God '
Shall the light-giver in the darkness lie?
Wil! not his soaring soul the tomb defy.
And.his great heart renounce the binding clod?
Shall we not. rather, launch upon the breeze,
And steer aloft his argosies ot air.
And in a Hallowed urn hts asides Th ar
Up where the cloud tops surge like golden seas
Beneath the sun, and to the winds consign
The dust of what in him was not divine?
Nay! Let him dwell in Death as in the span
Os Life—plain country blossoms for his grave;
For he to whom great kings and peoples gave
Frank homage in the watching world’s wide scan
He knew no pride, save the impassioned plan
To make the fickle air his fearful slave.
In elemental battle grimly brave.
Yet Earth had never known a gentler man.
How should xain pomps and eulogies endow
With greater glory <>m whoso deed and name
Are writ upon the page of endless tame"
And what are laurels for that death-pale brow
That once in life thrilled to the joyous sting
Os raging winds enva ailed hi? wing ’
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THE HEART OF YOUTH
This Is the Day When ‘Love That Resembles the Whirlwind Wins.
T -r THEN one is nineteen, the
y/y heart rules the head. And
that is the reason youth is.
so alluring and charming.
It is when the head grows older,
and weighs and deliberates and
gravely discusses pro and con and
holds the-heart in subjection, that
all the sweetness and poetry of life
are missing.
The writer of the following letter
did what any man of his age would
have done, it is. what the- world
expects of all who are nineteen:
:"I am nineteen years of age,” he
writes, "and have, been keeping
company with a girl one year my
Junior for-the past six months. I
love her dearly, and told her so.
Was I right in telling her?”
There was a time when love was
conducted as the Greeks conducted
a war. When they wanted to take
a town, they sat down in front of it
and held a ten years siege.
No Girl Willing to Wait Ten
Years To Be Won.
The man who holds a ten years
siege of the heart of a girl these
days will find he,has wasted his
time. No girl is.willing to wait ten
years for a man to win her. And
he is a poor excuse for a lover if
it takes him that long
There are modern implements in
the game of hove, the same as in the
game of war, and esery boy learns
them with his a. b. c’s. He knows
how to flatter, to cajole, to make
love while he Is still in knicker
bockers. and he is a past master of
the art by the time he is eighteen.
Wondered Why He Was
So Slow Finding It Out.
This young man had gone with
the girl for six months, and it was
only fair to her to tell her he loved
het. though I doubt If he was telling
her anything she didn’t already
know
If, like most of her sex. she knew
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. 1912.
Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX
it before he did, and wondered that
he was so slow in finding it out.;
He rnay*not have tlie means for
’ mar/ying iter. He may . not have
any; brighter prospects for buying
a bird cage than,he has for buying
a Jiome; but, having gone with the
girl six’months, he owed her a dec
laration of his feelings and hopes
and -intentions.
.The.uncertainty of the future will
not be appalling to either. It never
is to-those who are eighteen and
nine.tAen,’ and ;in love..
If‘he .hasn’t the money for mar
riage, there is’the-Joy of earning
it and saving it. knowing a nice
little girl is .waiting till he has
enough’
The time passes, ail the quicker
when speeded by love; the hurdens
.are made all the easier to bear
when the girl of a man s drcams
encourages him with her sympa
thy.
Little extravagances he enjoyed
before his engagement no longer
tempt him if he is saving for her
and a home.
t>?<t God’s Answer t>?o
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
ZA NCE in a time of trouble and of care
I dreamed 1 talked with God about ray pain.
With my .sleepland-courage, daring to complain
Os what 1 deemed ungracious and unfair.
‘‘Lord. 1 have grovelled on my knees in prayer
Hour after hour!” 1 cried; “yet all in vain:
No hand leads up to heights I would Attain,
No path is shown me out of my despair.”
Then answered God: “Three things I gave to thee—
dear brain, brave will, and strength of mind anti heart—
All implements divine, to shape the way.
Why shift the burden of thy toil on Me?
Till io the utmost he has done his part
With all his might, let no man DARE to pray.”
Under favorable circumstances
like these, the boy of nineteen who
is engaged to a nice girl -is guarded
from temptations. His habits be
come more steady; he adds to the
optimism of youth a little of the re
sponsibility is good for him.
Nothing his parents would ad
vise, nor his friends implore, lias
the potent influence on a man of
the age <qf nineteen that a nice girl
exerts.
And so I say, if he loves her.
after knowing her for six months,
it is only right that he tel! her so.
Indeed, it is her due.
This Is not the Age of
the Ten-Year Suit.
should regard that declaration as
tantamount to a proposal of mar
riage, and. if she accepts, it is up
to him to make himself the kind of
man she deserves.
To him. and to all lovers. I say
the same: This is not the age for
ten-year sieges. It is tlie day and
generation when the love that re
sembles the whirlwind wins.
THE HOME PAPER
Studying Human Character
by Machinery
Machines That Test the £r*fl ’i
Brain
--and—
Devices That Detect the
Emotions “
By GARRETT P. SER VIS S.
LOOK at yourself in a minor
and you will be facing the
greatest mystery that you can
find—unless another person hap
pens to look over your shoulder
and projects his image beside yours.
You CAN see a little way into
your own nature if you study your
self with great diligence, but the
eyes of your fellow men are like
the windows of a house that is all
dark within.
It is a wonder that no pessi
mistic philosopher has ever defined
man as the ANIMAL THAT LIES.
It is true that the cunning of the
fox is a kind of lying, but the fox’s
deceptions are perfectly transpar
ent to his own kind, while a man’s
are often impenetrable even to him
self.
We are such great mysteries to
ourselves that frequently' we try to
get our fellow men to find the key
to our own characters. Does a fox
ever go to another fox tq learn
what he is best fitted to do in
life? Well, men sometimes go to
phrenologists and soothsayers to
find out what THEY were born to
do in the world. No self-observ
ant person is likely to do that, ex
cept out of mere curiosity, but self
observant persons are compara
tively rare.
How does the "character reader”
proceed? By observing little
things, slight indications which es
cape the majority of men. It is not
the bumps on your head which re
veal your character, but the look of
your eyes, the lines of your face,
your unconscious manner and bear
ing. Man’s nervous system is so
highly developed and so active that
it writes its secrets all over him,
hut it requires a great deal of expe
rience and power of observation
to decipher them.
Invention of John Gray
Computes Brain Power.
One of the most surprising de
velopments of this age of machin
ery is the invention of a great va
riety of delicate mechanisms which
are capable of reading secrets that
escape the closest observation by
ordinary means. Take, for in
stance, a recent invention of John
Gray, the treasurer of the Royal
Anthropological institute in Eng
land. By its means lie claims that
he can discover the relative brain
power of a human being. At least
he can find out how quickly' the
brain acts —and quickness of ac
tion is becoming more and more im
portant in this age of hurry.
The apparatus, to whose tests
such men as Lord Avebury and
Sir William Crookes are said to
have submitted themselves is sim
ply a box containing a revolving
mirror. As the mirror turns it
throws out, in rapid succession,
two beams of light of contrasted
colors. The rapidity with which
one color follows the other is meas
ured by means of an indicator that
shows the speed of the mirror's
revolution. As the speed increases
'the colors begin to blend. First
there is a flicker and then a com
plete blending, in which both col
ors disappear, giving rise to a
steady flow of another color made
up of the mixture of the two. The
test consists in seeing how rapidly
the mirror can be turned without
causing a complete blending of the
colors. A quick acting brain con
tinues to perceive the separate
flashes of color after thev have be
conie indistinguishably blended to
the eye of a person whose brain is
more Klujrs'tet* in its action, Aston-
ishing differences are said to be re
vealed in this manner, and any one
can see that such a test might have
valuable results in many ways.
Since the invention of scientific
tests of color-blindness. color
blind persons no longer find em
ployment in occupations where
light signals are employed. It may
be that a test of quickness of per
ception will prove equally impor
tant in similar cases,
Testing Human Qualities
Like Testing Engine.
The modern tendency to test hu
man qualities by mechanical means
is continually growing. It is some
what like testing an engine. It not
only aids in the selection of the
proper persons to do certain kinds
of work, but it is of use to the sur
geon and the doctor in dealing
with disease, and with the results
of accident.
One kind of instrument produces
photographs of heart beats, by the
careful inspection of which a doc
tor can sometimes detect the ex
istence of lurking and dangerous
disease, which could not be discov
ered by ordinary means.
In London, as I have read, they
have an instrument of this kind
which can be used to test the beat
ing of a patient’s heart a hundred
miles or more away from the doc
tor’s office. The indications, mag
nified by a megaphonic attachment,
are transmitted by telephone. This
was recently tried with success be
tween a patient in the Isle of Wight
and a physician in London.
We are getting a little deeper
into the springs of human nature
when we deal with the Munster
berg machine for testing the emo
tions. This apparatus consists of
three machines combined—an au
tomatogiaph, to detect involuntary’
movements of the arm; a pneu
mograph, to record irregularities of
breathing, and a sphygmograph, to
take the pulse beats. It is said that
a man can not prevaricate without
detection when one of these tell
tale machines is attached to him.
• and he can not conceal his emo
tions. however well he may govern
his features. One can imagine
such an instrument applied to a
witness in the chair, with Its In
dications made visible to the jury
while he tells his story! It would
be a fine deterrent against per
jury.
Frisco Man Has Apparatus
Called “Love Machine.”
Similar tests penetrate into the
most secret emotions. A San Fran
cisco inventor has contrived an ap
paratus which he calls the “love
machine.” Two persons of opposite
sex grasp the handles of a machine
which records involuntary move
ments of the nerves and muscles.
A dial shows the intensity of the
emotion measured. Tlie inventor
thinks he has been able to dis
criminate the disturbance made in
the nervous system hy the senti
ment of love existing between ths
subjects of the experiment? If the
two persons are indifferent to each
other, he says, the dial remains
motionless. The amount of motion
varies with the intensity of the
sentiment. But there are easier, if
less scientific, ways of discovering
whether people are in love.
Machines of this kind are really
capable of great usefulness when
directed to proper ends and under
strictly scientific management. The
less mysterious man becomes to
himself and the less capable of de
ceiving himself and others the bet
ter for him and for his kind.