The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-12
ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH"

BY HERBERT QUICK.
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Copyright 1913. by Herbert ouick)
Nothing is more peaceful than the status OF the
passengers great liner after all the space has
been assigned those having the right to it, all con-
dieting claims adjusted and the floating Community
has settled down into the stable conditions OF the
voyage. The little planet goes smoothly bearing
its load of humanity and comes prosperousy 30 its
slip in the harbor, with not breech Of the peace
jar in the personal relations OF the thousands
aboard.
Zip to this time in the worlds history the human
passengers On the good ship Earth, has been
working out in blood and flame and tears the ques-
lions OF the allotment Of space. The mystery of
tion darkest In the fact that there was no
booking office through which the matter OF accom-
modations could be amicably settled We aboard
by the fist of Development. only half human. alto
gether ignorant, knowing nought OF the shape
tent of the huge Boat which sailed. and ever
since have been stampeding back and forth, STAY
ing. burning. trampling precious things into the
decks in migrations to new and better lands and
flights TO new aud worse ones. Tartar and Mongol.
FIHn and Vandal. Goth and Saracen, Angles. North
Normans, Danes, Persans. Romans hundred
OF dread and terror and romance and high en-
prise might be mentioned which have sounded
the earth during the ages which have elapsed from
the time when the Children OF Israel spied the
land OF Canaan found it good and took 1t In God
hidden carnage. down to the times when Cortez and
Pzarro did impossible things in Mexico and Peru;
and todays onslaught Of the Balkan states
Turkey in incredibly brilliant efforts drive from
the soil on which they believe themselves to have a
Just claim the unspeakabe Turk who has harried and
murdered and corrupted them for five hundred years
All these things are little bustlings OF the pas
sengers the good ship Earth to find their state
rooms their berths and their hooks iu the Storage.
These disturbances We not half
through, perhaps. We must decide all the problems
which have been hurredy sketched In these chap
and many years more. The issues OF the Seven
Pers OF Humanity must be solved by peace OF war
and tell how much OF the one will suffice
of the other be required But 1t certain that
II will not be all peace
But the hustle, the hustle and the Quarreng are
quieting down. We getting organized. We know
the ship better now-in fact, We have a diagram or
the accommodations and some facts as TO the pas
senger list There is aboard the spirit Of citizenship
OF the world against the narrow membership In
the tribe the city. the state the kingdom the en-
pire. We have passed. in large measure. from the
family the largest unit OF society earth is itself.
and always must through the tribal state and by
all intermediate stages into the trust phase OF
ernment-and the names Of the government trusts
are British Empire the United States OF America.
Russia. Austria Hungary, Germany. France and the
like. There 20 be good reason to believe that
we shall at time attain the status OF the unver
sal trust In government-the Parliament OF Man. the
Federation Of the World-which may or may not be
we'll for
Such federation will be charged with the bust