The Detroit times., 1913-02-06
"ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH"
"MuArpy and Re6len,sh the Ea,th'
BY HERBERT QUICK.

young, while animalcules so small as to be micro
scopc are able to multiply from single pair to the
number OF l70, 900 900 900 In four days Yet the
elephant and the anmalcule alike obey the impera-
tive command TO multiply and replenish the earth
just fast and just far the earths conditions
will permit. The oak tree is found almost all
the earth-though IL increases slowly than many
other plants II lives thousand years. The smaller
wheat plant. IL given space and plant food would
spdead all over the surface of the earth while the
oak was getting ready TO bear It's first acornbut the
wheat plant does not more OF the decks OF the
Good Ship Earth than the oak for all that-or would
IL left unaided in the struggle Both increase TO
the limits which their food and their enemies will
allow.
That green rash which breaks out all over the
decks OF our Good Ship Earth called vegetation. is
then, composed OF nnumerable host OF warning
plant-forms Each tries crowd the other out. The
fttest survice. Some produce innumerabe seeds and
trust chance for the planting thereof Some live
by thorns Some stick their seeds fast to animals.
Some produce good fruit with hard seeds inside so
that birds and animals will scatter them The ones
with the most successful tricks survive.
So with animals. Each mutipies TO the limits al
lowed by its food-supply. and its diseases and Its
enemies.
There are always other animals whose existence
and multiplication at the expense OF the animal
In question There are pests and parasites And there
Is the question getting food III food Is plenty and
enemies scarce and diseases and pests absent,
the animal increases-whether II be giraffe dodo
sparrow the food is scarce. or the enemies sue
cessful or the diseases and pests bad, the de-
creases There Is always tide in the affairs OF ami
mails and plants In those Of men-it either GIBBS
flows Sometimes II eDDs until race Is wiped out
like the fossil animals read OF and see In the
museums the dodo just spoken Of and the passenger
pigeon which many people living have seen, but
which Is no more This ebbing and flowing OF the
racial tide il called moving equilibrium" 1t is
like the tug Of when two sides pull at a rope
each side 10 always losing-or gaining-until one
definitely wins
Enemies keep the from Intercollegiate is
War.
Pests and diseases prey the race and keep down
Its numbers-that Is pestilence
Food supply grows too small for the multiplied
hosts and they starve-that Is Famine.
War Pestilence, Famine These the Genii with
which Nature keeps her balance even between the
warning species OF both plants and animals Without
War Pestilencs and Famine. there 10 not species
which would eventually ruthlessly crowd every
thing else on the earth driven they all by the
irresistible urge to multiply.
But Man Is an animals he exempt from the rule?
Did God place him this huge. round Zeppelin OF
the skies and decree that he too, must multiply until
the Good Ship Earth longer nourish him. and
therefore unless he IL decimated by War, he shall
fall by the sickle Pestilence and IL he War
and Pestilence, that Poverty must destroy him by
Faminef
'Is this the Thing the Lord God made, and gave
To have dominion land and scar"
And n this the sort OF dominion" He gavef
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