scrubbing Its floors, t^e year 2022 will unscrew the brass edges or unstitch the tapes and peel off the dirty surface of the floor or curtains. Then I every year a new floor board will be J laid. One may hope that standard B chairs, tables, carpets, will be peeled in the same way. SB Similar reforms apply to cooking, a ^B great deal of which will survive ^B among old fashioned people, but a SB great deal more of which will prob- ^B ably be avoided by the use of syn- ^fl thetic foods. It is conceivable, though not certain, that in 2022 a H complete meal may be taken in the m shape of four pills. This is not en- ^ tirely visionary; I am convinced that corned ^eef hash and pumpkin pie will still exist, but the pill lunch will ?roll by their side. But at that time few private dwellings will be built: in their stenH will
rise the community dwellings, where the majority of mankind will be living. They will probably be located in garden Bpaces and rise to forty or fifty floors, housing easily four or five thousand families. This is not exaggerated, since in one New York hotel to-day three thousand people sleep i every night. It would mean also that each ( block would have a local authority of its < own. I imagine these dwellings as afford- 1 ing one room to each adult of the family | and one room for common use. Such cook- l ing as then exists will be conducted by the < local authority of the block, which will also i undertake laundry, mending, cleaning and will provide a complete nursery for the i children of the tenants. i Perhaps at that time we shall have at- j tained a dream which I often nurse, name- 1 ly, the city roofed with glass. That city < would be a complete unit, with accommoda- | Hons for houses, offices, factories and open j spaces, all this carefully allocated. The | root would completely do away with < weather and would maintain an even tern- ; perature to be fixed by the taste of the ( period. Artificial ventilation would sup- ] press wind. As for the open spaces, if the temperature were warm they would ex- l
hibit a continual show of flowers, which < would be emancipated from wlifter and i summer; In other words, winter would not t come however long the descendants of Mr. l Hutchinson might wait. t The family would still exist, even though ] it is not doing very well to-day. It Is in- , conceivable that some sort of feeling be* r
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,cF ' w^f^i JBPpl|p^^jMi W. L. GEORGE, the distinguished British autt tween parents and children should not persist, though I am of course unable to tell what that feeling will be. I Imagine that the link will be thinner than it Is to-day, because the child is likely to be taken over by the State, not only schooled but fed and ?lad, and at the end of Its training placed In a post suitable to Its abilities. This may be affected by birth control, which In 2022 will be legal all over the world. There will be stages: the first results of birth control will be to reduce the birth rate; then the State will step in. as it loes in France, and make it worth peo
pie's while to have more children; then the State will discover that it has made things too easy and that people are having children recklessly; finally some sort of balince will establish Itself between the State lemand for children and the national supply. Largely the condition of the family will le governed by the position of woman, be
-ause woman is the family, while man is nerely Its supporter. It is practically cer ;ain that In 2022 nearly all women will lave discarded the idea that they are prlnarily "makers of men." Most fit women *111 then he following an individual career. Ml positions will he open to them and a ;reat many women will have risen high, rhe year 2022 will probably see a large
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y number of women in Con^ - a press, a great many on the judicial bench, many m . in civil service posts and is perhaps some in the mi President's Cabinet. But it is unlikely that ^ women will have an ^ achieved equality with T1 i.|" men. Cautious feminists At EsS Bk such as myself realize ^f | that things go slowly and ^ that a brief hundred tf,i
r years win noi wipe out im the effects on women of m< 30,000 years of slavery. rr1 ar Women will work, partly m( heeausc they want to and partly because they will so be able to. Thus women w' tin will pay their share in the upkeep of home and t)o family. The above sug- bu gestion of community no buildings, where all the household work will be u' ca; done by professionals, will liberate the average trj wife and enable her out of her wages to pay her ^ share of the household work which she dis- nr1 likes. an Marriage will still exist much as it is Ati to-day, for mankind has an Inveterate taste faf for the institution, but divorce will prob- nn ag ably be as easy everywhere as it Is in Nevada. In view, however, of the lm- Hti proved position of woman and her earning Th power, she will not only cease to be entitled to alimony, but she will be expected, ^ after the divorce, to pay her share of the thl maintenance of her children. or As regards the politics of 2022, I should lsr expect the form of the State to be much / th< the same. A few rearrangements may a8 have taken pla^e on the lines of self-de- or termination; for ?Instance, Austria may Bu have united with Germany, the South pu American republics may have federated, pil Ac., but I do not believe that there will be 1 i a superstate. There will still be republics an and monarchies; possibly, In 2022, the It Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Norwegian tin kings may have fallen, but for a variety of tal reasons, either lack of advancement or oci
inni titu riiim nii'iup, we may export silll vir to And kings in Sweden, .lugo-Slavia, gw Greece, Rumania and Great Britain. on On the inside, these States may have kli slightly changed, for th9ro prevails a ten- an dency to socialization which has nothing to do with socialism. Most of the Euro- tht pean governments are unconsciously na- dif tionalizing a number of industries, and a l
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t i ti wJ Is will go on. One may therefore preme that in 2022 most States will have tionalized railways, telegraphs, teleones, canals, docks, water supply, gas \ ' any) and electricity. Other industries 11 exist much as they do to-day, but it likely that the State will be inclined to ntrol them, to limit their profits, and to bitrate between them and the workers, e find a hint of this in America in the ti-trust acts; a hundred years hence e tendency will be much stronger. It is >rth noting as an international factor
at b/that time purely national Industries 11 almost have disappeared, and that the >rk of the world will be in the hands of ntrolled combines governing the supply a commodity from China to Peru. Unfortunately these international relains through trade are not likely to have ected political conditions. There will ill be war. The wars of that period may a little less frequent than they are toy, and be limited by arrangements such the Pacific agreement, the agreement tween Canada and the United States of rierica to leave their frontier unfortified, ., but it will still be there. I suspect at those wars to come will be made horle beyond my conception by new poison ses, inextinguishable flames and light>of smoke clouds. In those wars the airane bomb will seem as out of date as is
clay tne hatchet. War may ultimately sappear, but this lies beyond the limits this article and even beyond those of f mind. \s regards the United States in particu, it is likely that the country will have me to a complete settlement, with a popition of about 240,000,000. The idea of rth and South, East and West, will have noet disappeared; by that time the Amerin race will have taken so definite a form it immigration will not affect it. The nfirican from Key West and the Amerin from Seattle will be much the same nd of mic. That is to say as regards race, but I feel at mentally the American of 2022 will ve enormously changed. He is to-day e most enterprising creature in the orld, and is driven by a continual urge to se, to make money. That is because the odern American lives in a country that only partly developed, and where imense wealth still lies ready for him to ke. In 2022 that will be as finished as
s to-day in England. American wealth 11 then he eithe.- developed or known, d all of it will belong to somebody, lere will he no more opportunity in nerica than there is in England to-day. lose Americans will know that it is actically certain that they will die much the same position as the one in which ey were born. Those Americans will erefore be less enterprising and much ire pleasure loving. They will have belled against long hours: the chances e that in 2022 few people will work >re than seven hours a day, if as much. The effect of this, which I am sure unds regrettable to many of my readers 11. in my opinion, be good. It was essen1 that the American race should be cable of intense labor and intense ambin if it was to develop its vast country, t one result has been haste, overwork, ise, all of which is bad for the nerves. 2022 America will have made her forae and will he enjoying it as well as she n. I think that she will be a happier counr than she is to-day. The appeal of alth will be less because wealth II be difficult to attain, so those aericans to come will be producing in t and literature infinitely more than they e producing to-day. To-day, in fiction, ? aerlca leads the world by sincerity, tli and fearlessness, hut the American vel of significance is a novel of revolt
alnst the thralls of money, of convenn anrl of puritanism. In 2022 Ameriran srature will be a literature of culture, e battle will he over and the muzzle There will be no more things one n't say, and things one can't think No ubt there will be In 2022 people who nk as they would have thought in 1022, even a little earlier, but a great liberaln of mind will prevail, rt is not my business to corgrat ilat" > future, and I have no desire to do so. It Is impossible to say a thing Is good bad; all one can say is that it exists, it in case some of my readers feel relsion when they contemplate my lunch Is or my nationalized railroads, to those vould say that they are perhaps unduly xious. The world takes care of Itself; has been doing so for hundreds of cen
ries nnri is still spinning; tne worm win te care of Itsplf In 2022: that Is Its chlpf r-upatlon. Morp than that. I fppl conlcpd that though thp world may Iosp icps, It will dpvolop othpr grarps, that the wholp. and as timp goes on. man id grows more intelligent, more amiable d more honpst. rhp fnturp will bp difficult: what dops it mattpr? So was thp past difficult: flcultlps did not prevent Its turning into tolerable preser^.
scrubbing Its floors, t^e year 2022 will unscrew the brass edges or unstitch the tapes and peel off the dirty surface of the floor or curtains. Then I every year a new floor board will be J laid. One may hope that standard B chairs, tables, carpets, will be peeled in the same way. SB Similar reforms apply to cooking, a ^B great deal of which will survive ^B among old fashioned people, but a SB great deal more of which will prob- ^B ably be avoided by the use of syn- ^fl thetic foods. It is conceivable, though not certain, that in 2022 a H complete meal may be taken in the m shape of four pills. This is not en- ^ tirely visionary; I am convinced that corned ^eef hash and pumpkin pie will still exist, but the pill lunch will ?roll by their side. But at that time few private dwellings will be built: in their stenH will rise the community dwellings, where the majority of mankind will be living. They will probably be located in garden Bpaces and rise to forty or fifty floors, housing easily four or five thousand families. This is not exaggerated, since in one New York hotel to-day three thousand people sleep i every night. It would mean also that each ( block would have a local authority of its < own. I imagine these dwellings as afford- 1 ing one room to each adult of the family | and one room for common use. Such cook- l ing as then exists will be conducted by the < local authority of the block, which will also i undertake laundry, mending, cleaning and will provide a complete nursery for the i children of the tenants. i Perhaps at that time we shall have at- j tained a dream which I often nurse, name- 1 ly, the city roofed with glass. That city < would be a complete unit, with accommoda- | Hons for houses, offices, factories and open j spaces, all this carefully allocated. The | root would completely do away with < weather and would maintain an even tern- ; perature to be fixed by the taste of the ( period. Artificial ventilation would sup- ] press wind. As for the open spaces, if the temperature were warm they would ex- l hibit a continual show of flowers, which < would be emancipated from wlifter and i summer; In other words, winter would not t come however long the descendants of Mr. l Hutchinson might wait. t The family would still exist, even though ] it is not doing very well to-day. It Is in- , conceivable that some sort of feeling be* r RK HE] SECTl MAY 7, 1922. nT/*A T<^ jo 1
,cF ' w^f^i JBPpl|p^^jMi W. L. GEORGE, the distinguished British autt tween parents and children should not persist, though I am of course unable to tell what that feeling will be. I Imagine that the link will be thinner than it Is to-day, because the child is likely to be taken over by the State, not only schooled but fed and ?lad, and at the end of Its training placed In a post suitable to Its abilities. This may be affected by birth control, which In 2022 will be legal all over the world. There will be stages: the first results of birth control will be to reduce the birth rate; then the State will step in. as it loes in France, and make it worth peo pie's while to have more children; then the State will discover that it has made things too easy and that people are having children recklessly; finally some sort of balince will establish Itself between the State lemand for children and the national supply. Largely the condition of the family will le governed by the position of woman, be -ause woman is the family, while man is nerely Its supporter. It is practically cer ;ain that In 2022 nearly all women will lave discarded the idea that they are prlnarily "makers of men." Most fit women *111 then he following an individual career. Ml positions will he open to them and a ;reat many women will have risen high, rhe year 2022 will probably see a large RALD I [ n J11Z 38 th 8U
y number of women in Con^ - a press, a great many on the judicial bench, many m . in civil service posts and is perhaps some in the mi President's Cabinet. But it is unlikely that ^ women will have an ^ achieved equality with T1 i.|" men. Cautious feminists At EsS Bk such as myself realize ^f | that things go slowly and ^ that a brief hundred tf,i r years win noi wipe out im the effects on women of m< 30,000 years of slavery. rr1 ar Women will work, partly m( heeausc they want to and partly because they will so be able to. Thus women w' tin will pay their share in the upkeep of home and t)o family. The above sug- bu gestion of community no buildings, where all the household work will be u' ca; done by professionals, will liberate the average trj wife and enable her out of her wages to pay her ^ share of the household work which she dis- nr1 likes. an Marriage will still exist much as it is Ati to-day, for mankind has an Inveterate taste faf for the institution, but divorce will prob- nn ag ably be as easy everywhere as it Is in Nevada. In view, however, of the lm- Hti proved position of woman and her earning Th power, she will not only cease to be entitled to alimony, but she will be expected, ^ after the divorce, to pay her share of the thl maintenance of her children. or As regards the politics of 2022, I should lsr expect the form of the State to be much / th< the same. A few rearrangements may a8 have taken pla^e on the lines of self-de- or termination; for ?Instance, Austria may Bu have united with Germany, the South pu American republics may have federated, pil Ac., but I do not believe that there will be 1 i a superstate. There will still be republics an and monarchies; possibly, In 2022, the It Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Norwegian tin kings may have fallen, but for a variety of tal reasons, either lack of advancement or oci inni titu riiim nii'iup, we may export silll vir to And kings in Sweden, .lugo-Slavia, gw Greece, Rumania and Great Britain. on On the inside, these States may have kli slightly changed, for th9ro prevails a ten- an dency to socialization which has nothing to do with socialism. Most of the Euro- tht pean governments are unconsciously na- dif tionalizing a number of industries, and a l TWELVE PAGES