The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-02
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
. TAKING A GOOD LOOK
. AT THE TREE OF MAN
. GROWING BODY OF LIFE
. HAS ITS PARASITES

. GROWING BODY OF LIFE
HAS ITS PARASITES
/ Let's climb tree
Genealogical tree of Man
Take look or two, up and down
the line
1t may help to keep US from going
too far out on a limb
Unless there is some startling
deviation in evolution at hand
We should get our direction from
past events and accomplishments
X + x
What price has been paid
For violating laws of nature?
What are penalties, for instance, of
isolation?
This is not just a today's problem
of relations between nations
Eternal forces operate today, eter-
nal principles apply
In course of biological ventures,
still going on
AS in working out problems of per-
sonal and racial welfare.
Simple units of life
Whether predatory or purely de-
fensive-
Appear in natures long procession
of experiments
Stegosaurus, armored and i'm
mense; tyrannosaurus, terrible and
tremendous.
Devoured their environment, blast
ed weaker forms of life
But exist now only in rock beds;
remembered by unwieldy bones
Panzer units Of tooth and claw;
they did not survive
Isolated by their own character, in
capable of association
Their vast powers applied service
able implements
In methods which liquidated their
very purpose and method of existence.
x x X
The power of Man
Springs not only from food con-
From cultivation of soil, domesti-
CdIlOn OIL dTlnlalS-
Its roots lie deeper, in development
Of associated effort.
True, this also made his fighting
powers more effective
Storms of arrows, flung from bows
of English yew-
Rang first bell for approaching
doom of Men-on- Horseback
Also planted in old Britain roots of
power for common people
Deeper stiu spread roots of eco
nomic association of labor
At first developed and controlled by
personal enterprise
This cooperative linking of man to
man bore it's own seeds
Of future self-control among those
whole labor gave blood
When pioneers trekked to borders,
seeking larger freedoms
Always they bore tools, fashioned
in older centers of associated effort
And always, there followed schools,
not only to teach little boys
But most vital, to preserve con-
facts with broader currents of human
growth.
Always the glowing body of life
Has borne it's parasites, sometimes
grown to vampires
But it was the body, not the insects
battening on the blood-stream-
Which gave the forces, unfolded in
telligence and resources
Forced the direction of progress,
determined courses and policy
At times producing special minds,
as vehicles for common thought
Displacing these and their clans,
when they thwarted the common well
fare
Failing in this, progress ceased,
common life ebbed-
Failure to meet the common need,
to use the common energy
For service of the general good,
brought inevitable catastrophe.
X X x
Come now some little One Men
Demanding repeal of this unfolding
Law of Life
They would apply to a nation the
policy of the porcupine-
Ignoring laws of greatest human
power and accomplishments
They want to put nation in a
sausage skin, immure it
But whether this be merely selfish
instinct, or reaction to fear
Their plan will bring destruction to
the nations using it
AS has happened to all those little
peoples
Who could not learn to live, and
even to fight, together.