Show I r Prevailing Opinions I Comment of tho the American Americ n Press Dr Riddle on Life Lifo Before we ever heard of ot genes genes' hormones and vitamins a battle raged around the issue of ot spontaneous spontaneous spontaneous spon spon- generation Did life originate all by itself The Vic Victorians VIctorians Vie VIc d decided that life lite must al always always always al- al ways spring from life Latterly we have heard n new w doubts doub about the validity of this doctrine To Professor DIrac the pr problem blem of life 1 is the problem of at the atoms atom's nucleus only more difficult Professor Donnan one of the ablest of English organic chemists chemists chem chem- late is sure suro that life will be created created ere cre cre- cre in the laboratory when we know more about physicochemical chem chem ical relations And now comes Dr Oscar Riddle with the equally firm conviction n that evolution be begins begins begins be- be gins not with living protoplasm as Darwin taught but with wIth in Inanimate inanimate in animate matter Itself Once more the and mechanists come cometo cometo cometo to grips It must be admitted that the mechanists of at whom Dr Riddle is one have havo the b better of tho the ar ar- ar- ar They can n point to results re re- re- re the cults the duplication of urea al alcohol alcohol al- al cohol sugar a thousand nd compounds compounds com corn pounds once associated only with the tho living process tho the miracles wrought on life processes by the hormones and the vitamins Yet wo are areas as far as ever from realizing realizing ing lug what life Ufe is The mechanist is in the position of a man who argues that because a symphony can be played on a phonograph the tho Beethoven who composed it must have been an nn automaton himself In the absence of any satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory definition of ot life Ufe what is the argument about Obviously living liv liv- ing ing the tho interaction of organisms and their surroundings It is impossible im impossible im- im possible to conceive of a living organism without I Its environment environ environ- ment The deeper the biochemists probe Into the cell the more baffling baffling bal fling fUng the mystery becomes The fertilization of the seed the growth of the embryo the development devel devel- development development of the individual the transmission of features to the next generation adaptation to the environment evolution of lower Jower into higher forms forms It it is this that thatis is 1 life that hat defies the o and alike this that leads to talk mystically and unintelligibly of and bIotic energy A bit of artificially artificially arti arti- created matter would have to ring all these changes if It we are to accept it as something that lives Life LICe is a progression of ot states There is a close resemblance between the physicists and biolo blob Both seek Beek fundamentals The physicist tears teara matter apart and discovers protons electrons neutrons and positrons But he heIs heis heis is as s far as he ever was from telling us what reality is The biologist gives us protein crystals that have only to touch living JivIng tissue tissue sue Bue to flame into life Ufe themselves But ho cannot tell us what life Ufe is It may yet turn out that life lile is as eternal as matter To ask how bow it began Is perhaps to ask how the universe began New New York Times 01 Sussex An De Do Bible A curious literary work is having hav hay ing lag a 8 great success i in Iii London at atthe tho the moment where James RIchards RIchards' Richards Richards' Richards Richards' Rich RIch- ards' ards translation of the tho Bible Into the Sussex dialect is being hailed as a masterpiece ce It should be bo of ot ke keen n interest to Americans Interested Interested interested Inter Inter- ested In dialects to learn that a marked kinship exists between tho Scriptures in Ol CT Sussex and nd the Scriptures as 81 expounded in old-fashioned old American negro sermons ser ser ser- mons and spirituals For instance there is De Be Good GoodNews GoodNews GoodNews News According to Mark One might readily assume that to be good early whereas it is a chapter heading from tho the Sussex Bible Richards' Richards vets version Ion of ot the miracles mIracle of the loaves and the fishes which is quoted in a along along a along long dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune could easily be mistaken for the sermon Jermon of some lome earnest colored Baptist in the Alabama Ala AIa- bama backwoods Going still sWI further a scholar might be able to trace the dialect peculiar r to American negroes directly di dl dl- dl to English sources namely to white indentured servants who came came caine to 10 o Am America rica and worked side sideby sideby sideby by side aide with slaves Just how many many such auch servants came from Sussex it might be difficult to toes toes- es establish but the he o suggestion is plain that the tho negro de dc and dey and to and the tendency learned say ol 01 for old was from white people and did not as asis asis is now commonly supposed re result result xe- xe sult suit from any innate lingual in In- In ability Baltimore Sun Practical Neutrality In our opinion congress should pass a new law making effective for a limited period tho the provisions of the present act prohibiting shipment of of- arms ammunition and munitions of war to belligerents belligerents and also prohibiting the shipment of specified materials of war subject to the discretion of ot I Ithe the president In other words an act authorizing the president to order embargoes upon arms and materials of war when as and if he sees sees fit lit to do so Ir II in the in interests in- in of ot peace Such a delegation delegation delegation tion of power would be in accord not only with the tho constitution but with precedents from the be beginning beginning beginning be- be St StLouis ginning of ot our government government St. Louis Globe Democrat Mr B Borah's rah's Vitality Senator Borah's age Age is perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps his greatest liability certainly thinly it is ie the one factor in his his' candidacy which even he lie c cannot explain away He Ho is within one one year of ot being twice as as old as was vas Yas Bryan In 1896 1898 when the Boy Orator Orator Orator Ora Ora- tor of the tho Platte was was the youngest young young young- cst est candidate ever nominated by bya a 1 m major jor party It is is generally believed believed be believed be- be that a man of Senator Borah's age could not be expected to stand standup up under the Hie tremendous strain of the presidency But the fact that he is nearly 71 does not prevent Senator Borah from cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting a fancy figure in the campaign campaign cam cam Whatever he does between now nov and next November he be will outtalk and outmaneuver many men a score of ot years his junior junior Chattanooga Times B Business siness and Blue Eagle In the spring of 1933 Mr Roosevelt Roose Roose- v velt it did rec receive ive a mandate mandato from froni the American people to engage In certain experiments and he re received received re- re it through no less responsIble responsible responsible sible and authoritative sources sources' than I American commerce e and nd nd |