Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 8 | Doubling Life's Span

r r Doubling Lifes Life's Span J i I DR R. R SERGE the Vienna ie- ie je- je expert believes that the tile na natural nat nat- tur t- t life life- life is around und I 50 ur ural span of human ar years I I and nd nd sa says s he can fix th things so that all of us if f ve we ve wish ca can live that long Disregarding the fact that there are plenty 4 0 of- of medical of-medical meri men who will who will disagree with th the Viennese gland specialist we may admit that Ills his statement tat is rather r fascinating ing How How- ever ever religious co courageous or stoical we ve may mayie i. i Ite ie c- c cm m most st people have a lurking fear of d deaths death ath Life ife may flay not b be perfectly satisfactory to us but iut we dread giving it up Dr does docs not promise immortality but he offers to to double the norm normal l life span and if death is pushed three three-q quarters three arters of a century into the background Vc w can forget it for the present present pres- pres ent ent- r. r After all however i it is only fair to re- re nark tl that at there are several other th things the human race n needs eds much more than it needs an t 1 extra seventy-five seventy years years' of life In fact it almost seems as if Di Dr gift would not ot b be an unmixed b blessing bessing Imagine th the emotions of ofa a bent toil yon coal miner for instance a nan man who vho has drudged and slaved for fifty years in iii the damp underground gall galleries gal gal- l l ries ies ridden always by financial worry and poverty imag imaging n his emotions emotions' on being told that tha t he e has another seventy-five seventy years to devote devote devote de de- de- de vote to digging digging- coal Goal B Before fore te begging Dr to double our life sp spin span n we ought to bestir ourselves and find some ome way o of making better use of t the e years years Ve v already have han For it is not the fact tact that life is short that causes the worlds world s misery it it t 5 i is th the fact that life is pitiably tragically misused d. d There is a wide gulf gulf- between what we are arec c capable p ble of and what we do We are born are born the open-handed open children n of ev everlasting light yet behold 1 we grope and stagger and fall in inthe inthe inthe the mire and bind ourselves about with ig ignorance ig- ig ignorance norance and jealousy and selfishness and intolerance in- in tolerance and blindness ss until we have lost our heritage rit ge Most of our troubles troubles War war I poverty poverty pov pov- erty oppression arise Oppression arise from our own li limita- limita They come because we do not yet know v how to handle our lives properly It would be splendid to have longer lives But there are other things we need more We Weare are r riot not read ready yet for a century and a half of of living Ve We must first learn how to make the thc most of the years years' w we have When we weave have ave cleared the world of bigotry rivalries vars wars tars industrial conflicts conflict and penury we shall shaH be in n shape to talk about a year life ilfe fe span spai Dut at present such a thing would prove far from a boon I A