HAS OUR CIVILIZAITON SUFFICIENT 
INSURANCE AGAINST FAMINE? 
We live in an age of marvels, in a world of our own 
creation, with no land marks to guide, no beacon of past 
experience to adequately illumine our pathway. 
Invention follows invention, and discovery, discovery, 
each opening an immeasurable field for the effort of 
mankind, with the assurance of a corresponding addition 
to its happiness and well being. Luxuries undreamt of 
by our forefathers, possessed at first by the wealthy few, 
become the comforts of the many, and then in turn the 
necessities of all. The marvels of yesterday become 
the commonplaces of to-day, and in constant succession, 
new wonders, new triumphs encourage hopes almost 
beyond conception. Natural forces are revealed to be 
forthwith harnessed to our service and the industrial 
capacity of a hamlet is expanded to that of a city. 
Magazines of natural wealth, hitherto unseen or 
undisturbed, have been broken upon and the accumulated 
treasure of forgotten ages squandered without thought 
of the needs of any but ourselves. Standing upon the 
pinnacle of achievement and surveying a_ century’s 
advance, we regard its nearing successor as fraught with 
triumphs as magnificent, with conquests as abiding as 
those which have forever glorified our own. Yet the 
powers of the human intellect have a limit upon whose 
verge we may not know when we stand, but up to its 
attainment await in hopeful confidence the development 
of resources that may ever be elusive or imaginary. 
Without regard, therefore, to the dimly foreshadowed 
possibilities of a doubtful future it behooves us to make 
the utmost of that which we have and with patient and 
