"I suppose if I'd been born on ship crossing the Atlantic I'd have been @ fish." Thus a young English girl, caught in the mazes of bureaucratic stupidity at Ellis Island, N, Y. disposed of the contention that because she happened to be born in Africa, during. a temporary stay there of her mother, she was an African. While the Washington authorities repudiated' the contention of the officials at Ellis Island, the young woman had to submit to detention pending the decision.
Only a few days earlier an English woman, born in Australia, was. sent back to England, although her husband and two-year-old child were admitted. She suffered detention at Ellis Island, where conditions are intolerable to people of any refinement, "and was finally deported because the quota' of immigrants permitted to Australia was exhausted. Separated from her husband and baby she was scnit back to Europe, only to return by the next ship which would arrive, after the beginning of a new fiscal year opened a new English quota. Is it too much to ask that the Washington Government assign officials to Ellis Island who possess at least normal common sense?—"Christiam Science Monitor." chemistry and physics, but also of living things.
"The dawn of life," he said, "consisted in sunshine finding better and better materials to katergize; that is, to find chamne!s down which its energy could flow. Colloids, nitrates and varied carbon compounds gave great scope for this, and when once these substances, j Started competing for sunlight energy growth developed, so that the best of these living things overgrow the worst.
"After inconceivable ages. the plants of to-day were produced. Sunlight energy merely flowed cown.thése organized. channels which provided the best means of katergy or energy degradation. This enables us to acquit the jungle plants of murdering each other, as in the old view, but the effect is the same."
explained that weeds supplant garden plants in neglected ground because plants compel part of sunshine energy to flow uphill. They turn sunshine into the chemical energy of starch. An important addition of this'new theory to Darwin's law of the survival of the fittest is that it answers the question, "Fittest for what?" The fittest for - katergizing sunshine, said Dr. Eve.
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