The Lost Princess of Oz

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonder-ful imaginations. This pleases me. Imagination has bro-ught mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams-day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imagina-tive child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civili-zation. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.