The Washington times., 1917-10-07
Two IncubatOrs-MuCh Alike
What the Baby Incubator Does for the Individual Infant
Earth the Incubator of Humanity, Does for All of Us.

Have you the incubator for infants born soon
It is miniature hot house in which, on soft pillow
breathing air. constantly renewed the premature hu
being lives for weeks months at temperature
that changes regardless of conditions outside
The wise doctor fixes the degree of heat according to
the newborn infants needs and the temperature obeys the
doctors ORDERS changing Once in often the baby
is taken out wrapped in thick blanket carried to
ROOM where it gets nourishment planned by
put back in the little incubator hot house go growing
After every feeding the baby gets heavier little by little
it gets bigger at last fit to leave the incubator into
the outside world and take its place with real people
Around such an incubator for an individual infant
crowds of hundreds and thousands will gather paying ad
mission, wondering at the ingenuity of the incubator with
its protecting glass; temperature that doesn't change its
the mysterious supply of heat that keeps the tenn
The intelligent citizen, having gazed and wondered,
goes away to tell others and send others to come and
study.
Nearly all of u.s. fascinated by the baby incubator in
which little weak thing is protected and brought
physical maturity forget that the whole human lives
just such baby incubator called the EARTH infinitely
marvellous than the little house of glass and iron that
astonishes
The human feeble the least earth disturbance
would destroy it.
The surface of the earth upon which you ve and talk
of great heat in and great cold in winter in real
y spot where the temperature is marveousy regulated
Beneath your feet toward the earhs center fires
so intense that the heat many thousands of degrees
temperature inconceivable to
Out in space few miles above your head is that mys
terous of cold that fills all space the mponderable
on our planet they could be brought in contact
with for second and instantly destroy all life on this
little incubator earth.
Here we live on an incubator for helpless beings twe
yve thousand miles round and here grow and get
strong and prepare for future desnyust like the prea
turey born infant in the little incubator of glass and iron
Infinitely mysterious than minds grasp, is
this incubator in which we live.
You know that the in flying machine going one
hundred and fifty miles hour cannot put his hand out
from the shield that protects him. The force of the wind
would sweep it back.
This earth, turning its axle, moves and you and
your house with at the rate of thousand miles
death, and that is the earth's SLoWEST speed.
While this incubator revolves thousand miles hour
turning 70 t9e east goes around the sun "a. at the rate Of
ing at this rate Of speed sixty thousand miles hour
through space do not know that move-ust
the child in the railroad train does not know that the train
moving as it sees the trees fly past.
Everything this earth including yourself and the
light dry leaf the ground before you held its place
by the power of gravaton and does not spite of
That same gravtatOn holds our atmosphere in its place
holds the waters of the their places eades every
thing and makes of this incubator absolutely safe resi-
for feeble little who shudder at the
thought of moving hundred miles hour and whose
dwelling place flies forever round the mother sixty
thousand miles per hour journey of five hundred
and seventy million miles every year.
gravity suddenly lost its power if the air you breathe
longer held against the earhs surface by grava
ton the earth would fly away from its atmosphere
For few minutes there would be wind storm blowing at
sxtyseven thousand miles hour, such storm would de-
troy everything on the surface OF the globe the earth
rushed out of its atmosphere spling from their beds
the that would wash down mountains destroying life
forever on this planet
But nothing like that happens in marvelously ar
ranged corner of creation.
Our reliably built incubator goes its Journey turn
ing slowly its axis rushing through space temperature
and balanced, varying perhaps little hundred
degrees The blazing fires beneath feet made harm
less by the ears crust formed by time The heat of the
sum- terrific that this earth would melt upon surface
Ike flake of red hot stove is shut and toned
down needs it through the ninety five million
miles of the cold ether filled space that separates and
planets
You look at the little incubator that holds the infant
wondering and admrng The iron of which is made and
the glass will crumble and vanish in few years.
The earth incubator upon which all live has lasted