Article January 5, 1929 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Richard W. Abberley, Louis Albert Banks

[From the Boston Evening American, Massachusetts]

The thought of a new year thrills us through and through. What may be stands like a castle in the air, beautiful, sublime, tinted with the golden light of possibilities. Each January 1 brings visions to the mind of great things that could be reared by and for mankind. . . .

The late Charles P. Steinmetz, probably the leading electrical engineer of his time, has been quoted as having said . . . that the greatest discovery is to be made along apiritual lines. "Some day," he declared, "people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. It is now for the scientists of the world to turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been scratched. When this day comes," declared Steinmetz, "the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has seen in the past four." The great engineer saw clearly, and his vision was surely true. He had watched mechanical science come, after centuries of painfully slow progress, to mountain slopes where gradual rise took a sudden leap into the skies of achievement. He saw the science of man's physical being running almost parallel with mechanical science, and then . . . he had the vision of the spiritual becoming the absorbing interest of the best minds of the earth. A realm "scarcely scratched," he claimed, but soon, possibly, to assume a prominence and upward movement that would be startling in its tremendous results in creating human beings . . . able to encompass in their minds a universal brotherhood of all mankind.

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