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Caption: Convocation - 1930
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automobile has nearly driven horses from the sti I oi our cities and is rapidly driving out electric street i ir md reducing the passenger traffic oi railroad I h airplam < has come in to lend assistance to the autuiiml.il. \\ tun out newspapers every day by the million, to saj nothing of books. Our mail is delivered by railroad train- and airplanes in a fraction oi the time required thirty year The moving picture machine and the "talking movi have largely destroyed two old profession- and created some new ones and give US a vivid acquaintance with people in all parts of the world. More lately comes television to enable US to see those we are talking with miles iwav. We are promised, too. some kind oi machine that will enable us to read one another's thoughts. Thirty years ago in digging trenches, preparing t r foundations oi great buildings, digging canals, drain. ;e ditches and similar projects, men drudged away individually with shovel and pick, cart and wheelbarrow. Today, machines which will pick up tons oi material at a time havt displaced practically all oi this labor. W e bridge rivers and tunnel under rivers, mountains and s< is on a scale no dreamed of a generation aco. In earlier days we made steel in small quantities lv hand processes. Now it is reported that a mill has been put up at Sharon. Pennsylvania, which rolls steel strip at the rate oi twenty-six miles an hour. The steel is said to go through the rolls so fast that erne end oi the strip is in the shipping room before the other end lea\ s the furnaces Material progress has been paralleled with advance in other fields and in scientific theory. In medical science, too. advance has been made. In our Spanish W a r there was one case oi typhoid fever to ever] five or six men within three and one half months; in th< World W a r there was one case to every twent\ seven hundred men. In 1900 President Roosevelt appointed the Walter . ^ Reed Commission on Yellow Fever. You know the ston » the heroic self sacrifice ^i Doctor La ear and the cour i ige f the two private soldiers who offen 1 themselves 1 r 4
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