The Detroit times., 1913-02-06
XIV.


Copyright 1919. by Herbert Quickly
have spoken IN these letters OF new lands TO which
man may 30 10 support increased population. Let US
II these lands will suffice. One OF the funniest
stories OF these times OF is that written by Ellis
Parker Butler. called Pigs is Pigs" IL relates to
the troubles of rural expressman, who kept all the
rules of the company to taking care OF OF
prolific guinea pigs while unraveiing the red tape of
a dispute over the rate.
Long before the correspondence was ended the
office the freight house. the platform. and the
rounding city blocks full of guinea pigs There
was famine In all the things eaten by guinea pigs.
And the young pigs were arriving by Natures
line. in hourly consignments each greater than the
original one In another month OF such increase the
guinea pigs would have been kneedeep In the streets
This humorous story illustrates strikingy the most
wonderful. the most momentous fact about living
things-embarked air-ship Earth--their
tendency to multiply. In view OF the fact that
are living things that have this tendency
to multiply. and that deck-room is already very val
liable, let consider the so-called command. Multi
ply and repenish the earth"
The first plants and the first animals onecelled
little bags OF protoplasm. The long-shaped ones
pinched themselves In two In the middle and each
became two, and The round showed out
like snails' horns. and these horns pinched on
the parent, and went on independent organ
isms and thus multiplied. Some threw out buds.
which separated from the parent. dropped on
Many peculiar OF multiplication developed
but the living things did what non-living things
had ever done-they multiplied, The most beautiful
and most dreadfal operation of life set going.
When the higher plants developed they multiplied
by fruits and seeds. They developed ways for these
fruits and seeds live winter when the parent
died. and be scattered and for the plant persist
by thousand ways. And among these higher plants.
the crucial facts Of all facts-seI-developed. The
young plant made up OF the union OF the mother
cell and the father-sel-a new individual organism
made OF the union OF cells from two individual
organisms. Another fateful stepi
The multiplication OF the lower animals
complished-and still is-by ways quite similar In
Hmplicity-splittng. budding and the like And with
animals with plants soon evolution produced
species little advanced above the lowest, the fact
of developed-the greatest fact Of life.
Among animals we'll among plants, In
the lowest FORMS the individual organism II made
up OF the union OF cells from parent organisms
In this fact lies OF the mystery of lfeheredty
variation. love-materna paternal conjuga platonio
jealousy poetry religion. the family the clan. the
state. the nationa thousand million great things
than in any other fact In the universe.
The problems OF should be studied. not sneered
at looked at reverently not gggled at faced soberly
respectfully not blinked and hidden and lodged
For in the problems OF lie the great riddles
fronting all the Passengers the Good Ship Earth.
All animals and all plants mutipy-or tend to do
so-to the very 4mits Of the capacity OF the earth
to give them food and space Just now. am not dis
cussing this tendency In man-H II exists-I shall
come to that later. But all other animals do. and
all plants
The smaller and simpler species multiply faster
than do the larger and more compiler The elephant
IL 80 years old before It brings forth Its solitary