Show l To Live S Long LongILL i I I 4 wt JILL ILL you live to a ripe old age That 4 r Xv depends more more on your an ancestors estors than h on J-on on yourself Such is the conclusion reached y by y Dr Raymond Raymond- Pearl of Johns Jonns Hopkins uni- uni f Says Pearl The most important I i thing ing a person can do toward attaining a ripe j old ld age is to pick the right kind of parents and hd rents grandparents This expresses expresses a I Idea dea AM though in in a will seem in i t t r f Q I 1 J sible to most of us However there are many who believe that we select our parents before coming Corning into the world This belief is a branch of the mysticism now epidemic Many of us die young or drag along with bad health as a result of some ancestors ancestor's dissipation orthe orthe or orthe the unhealthy economic conditions that surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- sur- sur rounded him back yonder in the past Dr Pearl compares us with clocks that are wound up to run varying lengths of time Some men have been wound for a full ninety- ninety year run others are only partly wound and land stop at forty sixty-five sixty or some other point In human affairs the original winding is hered hered- ity Sand in the works is environment environment- disease or mode of life You have often heard it said Hell live to a very old age He comes from long lived stock If you get out the records kept in the family Bible or elsewhere and figure the thea a average age at rat which your direct ancestors died for several generations back you'll have havethe havethe havethe the most probable age ge of your own death Observe that the figure will express your average or most probable chance You may differ from the average live average live longer or short short- er That depends largely on the care you are able to take of or your body ody y and mind How about sudden death for death for instance the man run down by an auto Dr Pearl says heredity is a powerful influence nce even iI in such cases of unavoidable accident If the victim had inherited keen wits wis and swift judgment judgment judgment judg judg- ment h he probably would have been too alert to 10 be struck by a motorcar The age at which we die is determined by a combination of heredity and environment And environment includes early training and diet as well as later surroundings and occupation Karl Pearsons Pearson's r searches researches convinced him that there is a scientifically exact relation between between between be be- tween the death age of father and son He decided that the death age is 50 So to to 75 per percent percent percent cent determined by h hereditary ry factors and that these are so powerful they cannot be materially m modified by environment The clear cut j lesson in all this is that the w way y we live Jive and take care of our health today will to a large extent fix the number of years our sons grandsons grandson and ad later tater descendants will live The greatest legacy for the future is sensible living in our generation In addressing the German V Veterans Veterans' league Field Marshal von Hindenburg said We V do not wish to instigate war but in view of the present realities we cannot deny eny enythe I the truth of Schiller's words The most I peaceful persons can cannot 9 live in peace if a wicked neighbor does oes' i wish it and th the nation is unworthy that does not stake every everything r ery thing on its ho honor or If Germany had pause paused to consider this in 1914 perhaps the year 1923 would not have been beset with so many difficulties Chest Chesterton English writer ridicules our prohibition as that curious us colonial experiment experiment experiment ment across across on the other side Chesterton who asks how a nation which permits negroes to be lynched and burnt alive h has s any right to set itself up as an exemplar of bf mo morality lity for forthe forthe forthe the rest of the world The railroads recently have been handling a fourth more cars ot of freight than in the corresponding corresponding corresponding corre corre- weeks of 1919 during the big postwar postwar postwar post post- war boom Compared with four years ago industry is in a period of great greater activity but smaller profits |