The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-01
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tCopyriEht, 1913. by Herbert ouiek).
Now that We think of 1t. every one of us must see
that It's business IL the supplies for the main
tenance Of the Passengers on the Good Ship Earth
are in danger of running out It's everybodys bust
ness no matter who has the paper title to the sup
plies. For everybody is Passenger, and the de-
scendants of everybody must be Passengers.
The supply of coal Is absolutely essential TO civil
ization. Mankind in their present numbers cannot
be supported without its heat and the work II does
The coal will last much longer than II would otner-
wise do, because in burning IL we I'LL the air with
carbon dioxde which in few hundred years VIII
all countries like the glass Of greenhouse, and
make the climate OF the Ship warmer than now. 30
shall not need to burn SO much coal per capita
But there is another necessary OF life In the bunk
OF the Ship which must be used with coal II
civilization is to be maintained IL Is iron AS Steel
and under title this metal gives name to our
epoch--the Iron Age the Age OF Steel Think OF
world without iFeR-aRd except In a small WAY the
world practically without II just few genera
tons back. No factories. No engines. No motor
cars No watches No effective tools. No nails
No bolts No railways No telegraph. No telephone
No steel pens. No printing presses. No reapers. No
threshers. No cotton gins. No machine-made Shoes
factory cloth, or machine-made anything. No
guns No battleships No real ships Of any sort not
sailing vessels. No stoves or furnaces NO
steam heat. No chains. No ropes-for metal ma
chinery is used in making them. No cordage or
thread Of any sort hand-twisted strings No
needles. No sewing machines No pianos No
saws and therefore lumber No houses-only
caves or huts. No gasoline or kerosene-for the
petroleum business IL based on iron pipes and iron
machinery. No gas. No ice In summer. No ex-
haustion Of the soil through agriculture No waste
of coal by mining. No coal No wastage OF oil or
natural gas No whale oil, No fish hooks.
save bone ones No denudation OF forests through
cutting by OF lack OF axes. No conservation
problem. No civilization. Nobody to write articles
like this about the Good Ship Earth. Nobody able
to see the questions This II indeed the Age OF on
and Coal Is the agent By which alone IL can be
thawed for
OF necessity speak Of the iron In the bunkers Of
our Zeppelin II through space. as ours.
hope in doing 80 do not offend Judge Gary of the
United States Steel corporation Once spoke Of that
Colonel North who believed himself to have the
nitrogen OF the world reduced to possession In the
nitrate OF Chile effectively that his descend
would have the power to starve our descendants
IL they chose Science found way out Of the North
clutches Who shall show . way out OF the
clutches OF Judge Gary OF the United States Steel
corporationf For hs-or rather. his immortal En-
tity the corporation itssfis the Colonel North Of
Iron.
Fellow Passengers on Wild Airship named the
EARTH Our Zeppelin cannot stop TO take on supplies
therefore consider this:
Most OF our iron available II In the Lake
Superior bunkersthe supplies for the steel and iron
works on the lakes in the Pttsburg district come
from there-Gary South Chicago. Mnwaukee. De
troit Buffalo, Cleveland, Conneaut Lorain, and the
est These stores amounting to 1.60o.ooo,ooo tons
are owned mostly by Judge Garys immortal Entity
which created by law In me southern Iron