Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-06

the red tape OIL dispute oNSi LIZ
rate
Long before the correspondence was
ended, the office, the freight mousse
the platform and the surrounding CITY
blocks were full of guinea pigs. There
was famine In all the things eaten
by guinea pigs. And the young pigs
were arriving by natures own eA-
press line, in hourly consignments'
each greater than the original one
In another month Of such increase
the guinea pigs would have oeen
knee deep in the streets.
This humorous story illustrates
strikingiy the most wonderful, the
most momentous fact about living
things-em embarked on our air snip
Earth-their tendency to multiply
In view of the fact that we are living
things, that we have this same ten
dency to multiply, and that deck
room is already very valuable, let us
consider the so-called command,
Multiply and replenish the earth.
The first plants and the first ami
mails were one-celled little bags OF
protoplasm. The long-shaped ones
pinched themselves in two in the mid
die. and each became two, and so on.
The round ones showed out arms ike
snails' horns, and these horns pinched
off near the parent, and went OIL as
independent organisms, and thus null
tiplied. Some threw out buds, which
separated from the parent, or dropped
off. Many peculiar ways of multiple
cation were developed-but the living
things did what no non-living things
had ever done-they multiplied. The
most beautiful and most dreadful
operation of life was set going.
When the higher plants developed
they multiplied by fruits and seeds.
They developed ways for these fruits
and seeds to live over winter when
the parent died. and to be scattered,
and for the plant to persist by a
thousand ways, and among these
higher plants the crucial facts of all
cts-sex-developed The young
plant was made up Of the union of
the mother-cell and the father-cell--
a new individual organism made of
the union of cells from two parent
individual organisms. Another fate
full step! t
The multiplication of the lower AMI
mails was accomplishment still isT-
by ways quite similar in simplicity
splitting, budding and the like. And
with animals as with plants, as soon
as evolution produced species little
advanced above the lowest, the fact
of sex developed-the greatest fact
of life.
Among animals as well as among
plants. save in the lowest forms. the
new individual organism is made uI
of the union of cells from two
parent organisms. In this fact
lies more of the mystery of life
heredity, variation, love-maternal
paternal, coniugal. platonic-jealousy
poetry, religion, the family, the clan
the state, the nation-a thousand
million great things-than in any
other fact in the universe.
The problems of sex should be
studied, not sneered at; looked al
reverently, not giggled at; faced
soberly and respectfully, not blinked
and hidden and lodged. For in tht
problems of sex lie the great riddles
confronting all the passengers. on the
| Good Ship Earth.
All animals and all plants multiply
or tend to do soto the very limits
of the capacity of the earth to give
| them food and space. Just now,
| am not discussing this tendency il
man--lf it eXists-I shall come tc
that later. But all other animals dc
and all plants.
The smaller and simpler species
multiply faster than do the larger
and more complex. The elephant il
thirty years old before it brings
forth it's solitary young, while ami.
malcules 50 small as to be micro
scopic are able to multiply from ;
single pair to the number of 10000,
100000 in four days. Yet the ele.
! plant and the animalcule alike ODE.
the imperative command to multi
ply and replonish the 'earth'-just as
fast and just as far as the earth's
conditions will hermit The oalS tret