_One hundred Years of Progress
Modern Life
Many of the things which you see every day were unheard of a hundred years ago. Suppose that by some miracle a man who lived then were to visit your home today. As evening came he would look for the oil lamps to be lit. Can you imagine his astonishment as you turned on the electric lights? After supper you might step to the radio, turn a switch, and tune in a station. Your guest would be bewildered upon hearing the jokes of a comedian or the music of an orchestra playing in a city a hundred miles away. He would be deeply puzzled as you changed from station to station by merely pushing a button. He might event think that some magic was involved.
Science and Health
Scientific discoveries and inventions have made our civilization possible. You could make a long list of things without which you could not live as you do today. Among the most important discoveries would be those which have resulted in improved human health.
Healthy people seldom give much thought to how they feel. So long as they feel well, they take good health for granted. When illness strikes them, however, the story is a different one. Health suddenly becomes a most prized possession. Life is not much fun for sickly people. Disease takes away a great deal of the enjoyment of living. No boy or girl likes to be confined to bed because of illness. Everyone wants to feel well and strong.
Good health is so important that people are learning to co-operate for the sake of doing all they can to keep it. They have learned that it is absolutely necessary to do so. Without co-operation cities like Chicago, Montreal, New York, London, and Mexico City could not exist. Great epidemics and plagues would break out so often that the cities would be deserted. Perhaps you have read about the epidemics of Black Death which killed off millions of human beings in Europe and Asia a few centuries ago. That can happen again if we are not careful.
May increase your knowledge!
Thank you very much. . .
“Gerald S. Craig and John Urban”,
Professor of Sciences
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