Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-11

NOopyflBhts 1910, uF Herbert Alulck.)
ME INDS may differ as to how
MI man came into being on the
good ship Earfh--that huge
airship steered by wireless control
from the central station of which we
can only believe, but cannot know.
Some will see in man the last stage
OF evolution--the end of that great
chain beginning with a spot of slime
the first tiny mass of protoplasm-
and ending with US. Others will see
in him a creature produced by q spe-
cial creative act of God, and quite
unrelated by heredity to his fellow
beings in the world OF life. It mat
ters little to me. However it may be,
this is sure, we have been formed in
some way out of the dust OF the
earth--out of the planking of the
decks of the ship on which we voyage.
Here we arel We must live. We
must live together. We must win
our subsistence out of the decks
from which we have been formed
Our quarters on the ship must be
found somewhere on her broad decks
those portions which stick out Of
the water, and which we call land.
How shall we occupy it? What shall
be our relations with each other?
Shall we fight and quarrel for the
best places, and eat each other UP,
as people have been known to do
when cast away on other ships? Or
shall we organize and place the mat
ter under regulations? In fact, have
we not already apportioned among
US this great original Zeppelin on
which we career through space? If
so. is the apportionment the best that
could be made?
Is it permanent, or shall we-can
we-move about, as nations, chang
ing our quarters on the ship-mov-
ing fore and aft and from starboard
to port? In the nature of things, can
any apportionment of the earth
among it's tenants be permanent? Is
there such a principle as right? IL
so, can it be applied to our earth
tenancy? Do we need to find and ap-
ply the principle, IL it exists, or Will
II come into operation automatically
by some force outside ourselves,
like the wireless control that guides
our ship in her flight?
Perhaps we shall be able to throw
a little dim light on some of these
matters. But first. what are the big
facts as to our present quarters on
the ship?
How many of us are there?
There are between a billion and a
half and two billions of u.s. We are
not very evenly distributed over our
land and water Zeppelin. Many
things tend to make US gather in
dense communities in some places,
and to scatter very sparsely in others.
First, we are land animals, and the
rs per cent. of our good ship Earth
which is below the water level we
cannot inhabit. SO we give it over
to the amphibians, the fishes, and
the other swimmers. This must al
ways be so.
And even as to the solid surface OF
the ship, we md great areas of deck
room upon which we cannot live. The
thing most decisive of this is tenn
perature. Life could not appear on
earth until things had cooled down
to the liquid point of water from its
condition of steam. And life must
first have appeared in the then cool
est parts of the globe. These coolest
spots were and are the poles; and at
the poles-or one of them--life doubt
less first came into being. Perhaps
the first nations of men lived, and
fought, and struggled with these
problems, lat the poles. Instead of
being the discoverer of the pole, Peary
merely returned to the ancient home
of the race.
But the poles are now too cold for
successful human life. So are the po-
lar regions, reaching down a third
of the way or more to the lands which
lie amidships. Sometimes these arc
tic regions may grow warmer again
we shall look into that one of these
days-but now, man must abandon
great portions of his ships decks to
the seal, the bear, the fox and their
FROST defying fellows. These regions
have cooled off SO much as to spoil
them as quarters for any very large
numbers of passengers.