Show speed mr cutting cutti n g fc down life span spa n average A age g e of me abil from 57 tto to 51 10 ikast nine years says sa w scientist on FINDS AVIATORS olt DIE YOUNG YOM predicts Or predict edicts if 11 ever Air airplanes become general means of locomotion Loco span pan of life will as 0 cut to 40 46 or 45 paris in the nearly nine years since the wor war was declared in 1014 1914 tho AYO average ogo ago of mankind has fallen from fifty seven to ho fifty ono one according to statistics statistic s compiled by the danish professor carl V Fl land and read before the french academy of sciences not thi war directly but faiq ha fact that tho the war speeded up life fife Is in the cause for tills this asserts Fl Fi before the automobile became general the average age in europe at which men died was waa sixty I 1 he said even to in 1014 1914 tile the automobile while universal was still not P i vehicle kor for the common people but now jhb man who rides on or behind a horse Is a while legs lega are becoming in creakingly crea singly obsolete as a meana i of locomotion tho the human constitution demands in a cerk certain aln degree of exercise which As as best 1 by activity in the eidl nary round of existence the man who walks to his office every morning has a better chance to live to three score and ten than the man who goes in lits ahls limousine or lor who talas the subway or aviators die Y young oung few men who devote their lives to the fascination of speed live long I 1 recently investigated the average age of aviators past and present and found it to be only thirty six i there are of course other causes for the reduction in the normal life 13 span an they in include clude the growing tendency to degeneracy and loua uness of morals to be remarked through the world this bo however wever I 1 regard as a consequence of tho reign of speed A man who travels fast lives fast in other ways sways ile he overworks his blood without compensating it by wholesome exercise the ago age of man to deplorable to find this eon con tendency in tho the human makeup which will permit him by hta his own negligence to counteract the labora of I 1 doctors and scientists who aro are giving their lives to his welfare while savants savanis in their laboratories are striving riving si to discover cores cares and ways of prevention for diseases now largely responsible for tho the high death ra rate 11 tho the man in the mio street defeats object by living at al anch tin on ab normal normal rate that his constitution fear fully bully Oyer overworked worked eventually gives up lip it Is a question whether our con it itu alons will adapt themselves in time to this new era of speed but tho the result of ray my investigations investigation leads mea me to believe that tills this Is unlikely A study of tile the ago age of man will reveal ven I 1 that the average life span ispan lins linn fallen with each increase In creaso I 1 in n tho the speed of universal locomotion wh cn men traveled in ox carts and kofoot a century was an ordinary lifetime when the horse became universal universo al th the normal age dropped to elgh ty and then to seventy at tile the tima of df jesus christ the average ago age of man seventy enty tho the threescore years and ton ten of I 1 legend 0 then came the locomotive and within fifty years as many years were lopped average lifetime as had previously been taken offin off in adie more than centuries 1 this was because the locomotive came into general use before the human constitution had had tinie time to effect even a 0 partial readjust ment before tho the body machine iad ye covered there camo came tile the automobile and then the airplane should tile the latter ever become if a gener general i al menns means of locomotion I 1 do nat hesitate to griat pre diet that within twenty henrs yea s athe thereafter re tho the averi average ige span of bhiman ei cx istance will have been reduced to forty or forty five avo |