Show n BABSON'S r a RI REPORT PORT voter 11 w. w nb n.b. Miracle of Seeds The greatest miracle of course is the conception and birth of a helpless baby with its unparalleled opportunities It is said that one reason the Chinese nation nallon has had such sucha a long and matchless history Is because the Chinese figure their childrens children's age from nine months earlier carlier than we do Hence the mothers also give much more attention to what they do and think during those nine months IMPORTANCE OF SEEDS The wondrous next miracle to the birth of babies is the b birth of seeds This will be bethe bethe the real subject of this weeks week's column I have just returned from the Evers Flower Farm at Lakeland Fin Fla run and operated by Orris R. R Evers who raises over plants every spring and more every fall lie is a graduate ot of the University of Florida and has a Masters Master's Degree from Ohio State University I MENTION l this to show the importance of an education to toa a ThIs should be an inspiration to those college graduates who think that they must be doctors lawyers or insurance e agents In order to build a largo large business and make a better heUer happier more beautiful world This m y I friend Evers Is now doing God bless him lIe knows that every seed contains a mir mir- acle EACH SEED A COMPUTER COl Two facts about se seeds ds interest inter inter- est me intensely the first is the billions of seeds both vegetable and flower going to toI I waste every year The head I of one company which raises I and sells only vegetable seeds sells over one hundred billion live and ac active ac- ac tive s seeds each year I THE SECOND fact is that each seed is a complete fac fac- tory Had I the space I would prove this to every reader Moreover each fact o 0 r y knows exactly when to corn com mence operating without the then n need ed for any labor union or any legislation Each seed is isa isa a most marvelous automated device far more nary than any computer Computers are a very wonderful won won- denul invention but they give giveout giveout out only what has been fed into them ThIs Is probably true of seeds but nature programs programs pro grams grams' the seed AS YET computers do not think but seeds apparently do know think at least they when to sprout or burst their shell and grow into a vegetable ble or into a flower or into a magn magnificent oak tree You say thIs is merely done by the seed listening to the sun Or to put it another way the sun programs the seed to send end a sprout upward to form leaves and a fiber downward to form roots Truly it all is very wonderful lOSSI POSSIBILITIES Computers also are wonderful wonder wonder- ful but none of the five leading lead lead- ing computer manufacturing companies a list will be sent gratis on request will claim that their computers will work by doing their own thinking They need to be programmed program med mcd which wl ch means that the information must be fed into them by some human brain Psychologists tell me that the I time Is corning coming when brain brainwaves brainwaves waves In leaving our heads will operate computers I feel sure too loo that the day is corning coming when the computer will secure its knowledge from the rays of the sun from the direction of the wind or from vother invisible data fed to it by nature EVERY SEED A Now let me get back to my favorite of subject seeds Each seed Is a miniature corn com puter already being programmed programmed pro by nature It how ever d depends greatly upon environment and almost wholly ly upon what has happened before Let me again refer to the tho writings of Dr Rufus Cole of Mt Kisco N N. N Y Y Every I seed proves his basic claim i That there Is nothing new under un der the sun and that what happens today Is dependent upon all that has happened for generations before seeds will someday become real economic econom econom- ic forces though this possibility ity is now almost entirely ig noted nored I wish I were a young man and could enjoy the great changes ahead ot of us we have only tapped the great computer er era I Even Edison once said to me Give me a few more I years and I would have seeds perform wonders such as the I incandescent light and the electric motor have done for forthe I Ithe the industrial era |