Subject: [APFN] 100 years ago...
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:36:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Pat frankl5@yahoo.com
Reply-To: apfn@egroups.com

Read from the Quinn radio show
12/22/00
http://www.warroom.com/archives/index.shtml


As we stand in the edge of the third millennium its
easy for us to forget from whence we came as we hustle
through the last hectic days before Christmas, from
the computer store to the heated mall, from the Mac
machine to the supermarket, it hardly occurs to us
just how much we've changed in the last 100 years. And
so every year's show includes a selection that helps
remind us of our past. A recording to place into focus
just how far we've come in so little of time. The
recording you're about to hear is a tribute to man's
resourcefulness and also to man's ingenuity. It was
about 100 years ago. It was made without the benefit
of vacuum tubes, or motors, or transistors or chips,
maybe even without the benefit of electricity. We'll
never know the names behind the voices. History's
details are often blurred but we can imagine the way
that the world looked on the night that they gathered
in some upper room dressed for the occasion in their
Sunday's finest to engage in the wonders of Mr.
Edison's talking machine.

The things that we do know is that they lived in
houses with parlors and pantries.

They cooked in kitchens with stoves that burn coal.

They probably had chickens in the back yard.

They had real gold and silver coins in their pockets
and paper bills that said, silver certificate -  pay
to the bearer on demand.

And they paid NO income tax.

We also know that they courted their lady friends.
They asked humbly for their hands in marriage.

They rode horses and carriages and for long trips, they took the train.

They did not elect their Senators.

They owed no national debt to a central bank.

We know that they suffered at the dentist.

Read the police gazette.

Got minor surgery at the barber shop.

Could read, write and comprehend world affairs.

We know that they were not offended by Christmas or the Ten Commandments.

They honored their Parents and their teachers.

They feared their Father's leather strap.

They ate in the kitchen until they earned their way to the dining room table.

We know they threw snowballs in the school yard and
didn't get sent to 'anger management counseling'.

They had so many chores to do at home they were too tired to be ADHD.

A wagon or a sled or a pair of roller skates was as high tech as toys got.

And yet in this life so simple they were able to leave
us their voices, the voices of real people, with real
lives - so far removed from our everyday experience.
And in their genius, they did it with only wood,
springs, gears and steel needles - etching their
voices in grooves on a moving disc of ceiling wax.
Like
the tracks of an invisible sleigh gliding through the snow...

"In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things.
There is a time to preach and a time to fight." -- 
Rev. John Peter Muhlenberg 1775
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