The Washington times., 1930-02-21
Strange Adventures of a Germ
By Herbert Kaufman

the wear 100 1000 B. C-maybe an earlier
tiny amphbian crawed out Of the virginia. oozes
began its sluggish blood in the prmordial dawn
No quite what this vague, rudmentary thing
looked like or can classify certainty the elemental germ
of life which developed in the experimental laboratory
there among the yeasng muds where nature had just
begun condense and combine the vital forces from which
all self perpetuating species were to descend.
The abysmaly stupid creature utterly DEAF Aghtless
and entirely devoid of acute sensations.
It's brain was barely large enough house breathing and
feeding instincts had heart and lungs Of sorts and d
gestve system scarcely capable OF eliminating fuel and
nutritive essences
And that the founder Of your race
In February 1890 the carefully cultivated seed Of this dim
organism is tearing planets apart splitting atoms into mil
honths shipping continents in half and scoong about the
heavens on home made wings
throb recognizable hunger now factory from which
story crapers, submarines Hudson tunnels phil
osophies arts hammers and locomotives pour in heer
skelter procession.
One Of the cOrpuscles that its hundred million
year journey the morning mention eventually settled in
little Michigan town and evolved into an Edison.
Another steadily collecting intelligence and accommodating
constructive curiosity in Neanderhal jungle wates
Tartar yurs Arab tents shepherd hut Ahenan academies
and Roman temples finally lands in the veins Of an electrical
engineer enables him to identity elements still beyond
microscope vision and physical contact.
third those corpusces after travelling in the
footsteps of the brontosaur the eohppu past Nneh and
along the trails of Xerxe Arc and Saadn
America and yields the fruit OF its venerable
Investigations light ray estimate the thickness Of paper
And a fourth wandering through Heaven knows what
chronological routes winds up in Schenectady to enter service
In the wizard den there ana con11oe 10 T.
how to radio identfiabe image Melbourne Australia
twenty thousand miles away but now, by grace Of
successful television ne-eighth Of second distant
But something to have happened lately to the par
tcuar bit of gray matter delegated to provide solutions for
angles into which human nature invariably nar itself
when economic and political opinion undertake to find
mon denomnators.
The drys and vets at oggerheads. The
President cant convince the tariff makers that national
piency requires prompt and decisive action uncompeed
schedules.
All attempts to bring order out Of New Yoks confusion
Of criminal laws frustrated by legislative partisanshp
The House Judiciary Committee simply render
elusive reports the Wckersham Committee recommends
TONS
Europe again headed indefinite messes Tardeu
Cabinet out and Doumergue is at wits end where to find
materials for effective the Soviets have declared
all formal religion and will take sharper sword
than Axandes through the involved knot into which
naval disarmament suddenly discovers itself
Nothing impossible except composition Of the sell
fish differences which have consistently defeated society
ambition live under the rule reason make the best
use of its opportunities and talents.