The Detroit times., 1913-01-28

rr-o,Vrtybt- 1aIz- nv Herbert ouick1.-
In these sketches OF world problems have con-
sidered how the Passengers on our terrestrial Zeppelin
have been assigned their present quarters anu WY
they are crowded SO largely Europe southern and
Eastern Asia and Eastern North America. The basic
lies IN the supply or potash ntrates anu pnos
plankInF of the decks For where these things
Mother Earth has that blessed breaking out or green
rash her skin called vegetaton-ano on tnat ae,
NAL life is based But there many regions In which
these elements pentifully found. but where the
climate forbids successful community lie ~ rs 700
hot as In the tropics or hot and wet, as in the
forest Central Africa Central South Amer
ica or too and dry in the Sahara; or too dry
with a good temperature much OF North America;
or too cold as in a great deal OF Canada, Labrador.
Siberia and portions of Russia and PATAGONIA Green
land Iceland and the unknown Antarctic comment are
always frozen.
With the human growing In numbers 1t
seems certain that lands viii have to be occupied
peaceaby; the old fierce game OF war and conquest
and extrpation must be resumed.
The Passengers used 20 kill each other on more
than now Away of in the unknown wilds OF Eastern
Asia some great brute OF a murderer ike Genghis
Kahn would arise and assail his fellow men, using
other fellow men as weapon, and the tribes ana
nations would begin TO be driven against each other
like OF falling bricks. The huge continent would
shake with war-and finally. the wave would surge
westward until ancestors In Europe would be In
voved Under the beating Of such waves. Greece was
submerged and the Roman Empire went down In ruins.
The Passengers were seeking quarters. that's all.
But now, to have ceased for while to do
thisin their way, least And with the falling on In
murder there is an increase In people.
To help on this increase Science Is mastering dis
ease So in spite OF famine and poverty. men are so
multplyng that new quarters viii one day be abso-
lutey necessary The Passengers are In many places
getting numerous In peaceful China and prolific
India and probably In other countries, the limits
of subsistence already being pressed upon by sheer
force numbers Where Is the new Land for the new
billions?
There are two directions in which the landswarm-
ings OF the future may move. They are north and
south In both directions the climatic conditions are
SO rigorous as have kept from multiplying under
them to any great e1entfor the hot regions OF the
Airship amidships and the cold regions at stem and
stern are both sparsely supplied with Passengers.
Where as In densely peopled tropical regions,
thia i not true the community life 10 not successful
Clmatei This 10 the one thing man has never yet
been able control Almost every other phase OF his
environments he modify He can cause new and
more useful animals and plants to suppant the ones
Nature gave earth He can annhilate distance He
can chain the spirits coal He harness the winds
and the rivers But no has never yet changed eli
mate There be those who think that arid climates
grow moister with the cultivation Of the lands. but
such minds are duped. There does not fall en- the
average a drop OF moisture on any acre OF our
great arid and semiard plains than fell there on the
average before pillow was put into them Climate has
always been the master OF man