Show BASIS t OF LIFES LIFE'S ACTIVITIES Little Grou Group of Atoms Center er of Seven Se Separate Sepa Sepa- ais a- a rate is te Good and nd Evil Man Manifestations S SST ST ST. PETERSBURG FlaP Fla March 29 9 CAP Seven CAP Seven separate ate manifestations manifesta- manifesta manifesta la- la Hons of oj life including good and evil eU have been found to revolve around one rather small bundle of or carbon and hydrogen atoms known ax M the group The high importance of this one c combination n of the two common ele ele- elements ments meats was pointed out by Professor Marston T. T Bogert Boert of Columbia university uni uni- at the thc meeting of the American Amen Ameri can Chemical E society ciet Professor ProCessor Bogert Bogart stated L Ls is the chemical nucleus of ot the cancer causing cancer causing substances in coal tar It is 15 an on essential part of the sex ex hormones hormones hor mones mone both male and female The powerful heart poisons of the digitalis class contain it as do also the potent alkaloids that come out of opium Phen is the c cornerstone of the sterols without whose presence in minu minute quantities animal life would be impo impossible ibl and one of which erg erl- is the thc bilS basis of or vitamin D. D It is in the thc bile acids of the human body and in the resin acids produced by evergreen trees and md important in various industries An aston astonishingly diverse list of ot life liCe activities yet astonishingly connect cd ed for for Professor Bogert said the life necessary life necessary sterols can be brok broken n down into the less leM complex bile bUe acids and these In turn can be cracked Into the sex hormones And little additions additions ad ad- or of of a few atoms here herc and there constitute the thc only dif differences between n the sex hormones and and the cancer causing cancer substances Under all this series cries as well wen 3 as the two groups of poisons and the tree made acids acid lies the rene gene rene group consisting of a total o of oC merely 14 atoms o of carbon and 10 atoms of hydrogen J r |