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Vol. 22 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 28, 1914 No. 14 I
' An Independent Paper Published Under
:: the Management of J. T. Goodwin ::
f EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
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The Finding Of New Worlds.
ll 0ST people are familIar with the details ot
'! the finding hy Columbus of the new world.
The years of struggle, going from one court
to another seeking in vain for sufficient means
to secure an outfit for the venture he was seek
ing to make; the final sailin0- of the little caravels,
two of which were but large open boats; the
3 manhood required to cajole and bully the ignor
ant crews; the storm that threatened destruc-
I tion; the fearful days and nights when fear and
superstition combined to make frantic the sea
men; the first hope when the sea weeds that must
have come from some shore floated past; the
I lighting, up among the sails of a weary land bird
until at last the cry of "A light! A light!" smote
the ears of the over-strained man and he knew
that an answer had come to his prayers. What
must his thoughts have been in that hour? A
new world found, a now epoch for mankind to
5 have its birth with the dawn, and with that dawn
; there before him in tropical splendor a new world
had risen from out the sea. That event has been
declared to be the greatest since the coming ot
f, the Messiah and in many ways it is true, but in-
' spired men have found other new worlds and the
' discoveries are growing more and more frequent.
When Watt heard the first respiration of the
I steam engine, he did not realize the truth but ho
f really had found and put under control a Genii
L that more than doubled the working force of the
f world on land and sea; a force to make of the
, oceans but ferries; to draw the nations together
t to eventually conquer the moods and passions
i of men and usher in the reign cf peace. The new
world that he had found was not of land, but of
a force through which new lands might be swiftly
settled. With his name should be coupled those
i of George Stephenson and Robert Fulton; the
one applying that force to moving chariots on
land, the other to the navigation of the water.
When we stop to think that only five hun
dred and fifty years ago every book, including
school and prayer books and every public and
private document was written by hand; then we
realize what a new world was found when mov
able types were invented and when they first
I found full expression through the perfection
I press. In many ways that was more important
I than the discovery of tho now world, for it meant
2 the final banishment of tho worst enemy the
I I world has over known that squalor of tho brain
I called ignorance.
f When Galileo invented tho telescope he sud
denly discovered a thousand new worlds that all
tho time had been rolling to the music of their
! own axles through the centuries just beyond
man's feeble vision.
When Morse heard the tick of tho first tele-
i graph message as it started on its High and the
1 response on another instrument, he knew that ho
i had discovered a new world and that it would
' soon bo possible to put a girdle round about the
; j earth in forty minutes.
Bj I But none of the above is so wonderful as
m that other new world that was found when the
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first "still small voice" came through tho tele
phone. It seems to us the listener must have
involuntarily thought: "And a great and strong
wind rent the mountains and brake in pieces the
rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in
the wind; and after the wind an earthquake,
but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And
after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was
not In the fire; and after the fire a still small
voice."
"And it was so, when Elijah heard it, he
wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and
stood at the entering in of the cave; And behold
there came a voice unto him and said: 'What
doest thou here?' "
Now Marconi has found a new world more
wonderful than the others, for tho vision It
brings is that we are all like the mutinous crew
of Columbus, that other worlds await us when
a few more waves shall be ridden a few more
billows crossed.
These new worlds are being constantly dis
covered. When Milton in his study sat down to
justify the ways of God to" man, to his blinded
eyes thero came a celestial picture to guide his
hand as in immortal words ho reproduced the
picture.
Science is constantly rolling back the darkness
to reveal with a new dawn the worlds that have
through the ages waited for man to gain enough
in vision to discern them.
The lightnings that through the centuries have
been rending the oak have all the time been
waiting to serve man when he should attain
the wisdom to call them into his service, to give
him a new immeasurable force, to give to the
world a new light and power.
The soft air that fans the heated brow in
summer is loaded with a fertilizer that will double
the world's foot supply.
The anaesthetic has a look like death, but it it
the most merciful agent ever sent to lull men
to sleep.
Now voyagers are searching these new
worlds in all directions and Uip promise shines
out brighter and brighter that the day is draw
ing near when man shall have full dominion and
realize that from the first the earth and the
air were loaded with blessings for him when ho
should attain the wisdom to call them to his
aid.
Trouble Abroad.
THE situation in Great Britain just now is
very serious. There is an old story of an
Irishman who got drunk occasionally and on such
occasions ho was want to hire a fiddler to play
the Battle of the Boyne to see how long he would
listen to it, that as about the fourth or fifth bar
was struck ho would cry out in a frenzy: "Hould
on, you Spalpeen, if yees strike another note I'll
break' ivery bone in yer body!"
Tho feeling in both England and Ireland is
such that if a few more notes are struck there
will bo trouble. And they are not Mexicans over
there. A resolution there is no holiday carouse.
And the Lords are as hot as tho Commons. At
a little gathering a few evenings since of the
Primrose League, Lord Hyde spoke of "Demo
cratic Peeresses" as they appeared at the open
ing of Parliament as follows:
"I noticed that the' wives of many of the so
called 'democratic peers' were present, display
ing gems the value of which I would not care to H
estimate. iM
"In view of tho utterances, public and other- H
wise, of their darling, Mr. Lloyd George, and ''H
his satellites, is it seemly that these so called ,H
democratic peeresses should appear in that
House which Mr. Lloyd Georgo apparently would H
only be content to see in ruins, displaying Buch
rare jewels on their persons? Would they bo
prepared to share that wealth with their cooks
and the wives of their butlers? I think tho an- H
swer would be found in the words of a well- H
known song by a popular music hall artist, 'I H
don't think.'" H
"And then Lord Hyde pictured the Houses of H
Parliament as a 'ghastly shadow, a mere ruin
against the London sky after Ulster had her H
civil war." M
Ships and Shipping '
"PHE following dispatch was wired to every H
country that cables and land wires reach: H
By Marconi Wireless Telegraph. H
"Noon, March 13. Lusitania established east- H
ward record for day's run, covering G18 knots, H
average 26.7 knots per hour, thus lowering pre- H
vious eastward record held by sister ship, steamer H
Mauretania by four knots." H
That run of G18 knots equals 711 and a frac- fl
tion miles, an average speed of nearly 31 miles. fl
We are told that ho captain Daniel Dow has
made many great records in different ships, that H
"he is known to the Liverpool firemen as 'Paddy' H
Dow and has a crew on his ship who have H
sworn with strange oaths to win the blue ribbon H
of the Atlantic for their country and their com- H
mander." That is good reading and is a re- H
minder that there was a time when Americans H
were proud of their ships and captains. H
When the "Sovereign of the Seas" rounded H
the Horn in ninety-seven days from New York H
to San Francisco, it was held to bo something H
wonderful until the "Flying Cloud," made the H
same voyage in eighth-nine days and took the H
place among clipper ships that Flying Childers H
has held for more than a century among English H
race horses. H
When she made that voyage if any German H
state wanted a ship it was ordered from some H
foreign power and Germany's foreign trade was I
nil. At tho same time Germans by tens of thou- I
sands were coming to tho United States an- I
nually. H
But things have changed. Germany's foreign H
trade last year amounted to more than $2,500,-
000,000, having more than doubled during the I
past ten years, and few Germans are emigrating H
from their native land now, they finding work I
at home. She too owns the biggest and finest 9
steamship company in the world. H
Not content with her progress she has now 9
formed a gigantic association to search the world
for now markets for her manufactured goods 9
and to find cheap raw material to transform Into 9
manufactured goods and wares. M
When asked the reason for this, one interested I
replied: H
"It may be a matter of surprise for foreigners I
that Germany, having attained the highest ox- I
port figures in her history in 1913 $2,520,000,000,
more than double that of ten years ago should I
find it necessary to make this further bid for I