Show r - r- -' ' Tiffin £ MAGAZINE SECTION - v V- - v- v 'j ' vvj?''-"'- v' Vi'fsv v - aALTLAKB CITS' SUNDAY JANUABSVf 1917 HEEALD-BEPUMACA- N y-- r -i £ s ' r : ' &'" -- 'i ’f V 'k 1 T aT i ' - - Dr Eugene Really Is Built to Run Depew Says King "Three Score MAGAZINESEOTION rsr vJ£- - W--v- v ' J V- ''s Fifth and Final Period of Life Which Science Says Should Represent a Number Five Times and Ten" ' : That By Abner Cassell Required to are saving children and lowering the average of death rate But the total length of life in the United States is not proportionately Increasing It actually Is growing shorter Just why is the great question Beach WES Maturity Science refuses to rest until it finds out and until: It finds a way of increasing Instead of decreasing the Span of life Chauncey Depew said the other day that the 90th psalm of David had killed ten times more people before their real “time" than have been killed In the present war' “Three score and ten according to Dr Depew and according to the scientists is a fallacy It is not surprising therefore to fin'd great movements like the Life Extension Institute of which former" President Taft Is the head with of- - fices In New York It will probably be a surprise to tile average man to learn that In the Fourth Period of Life in Which Man Is Represented as r Likens the Human Body to a Machine Which Buns as Long as All of Its Parts Axe Properly C Lubricated "and Preserved t r American nation there are annually 900000 deaths which are classed as premature — nearly a million lives lost ' In a single year because of needless sickness ending in deaths which might be postponed from a short period to several years These untimely deaths arise from causes which If discovered and treated in time could be uprooted and overcome and the ' life preserved for its normal course Statistical information develops the significant fact that In a very large percentage of cases Impairments of health— often seriously advanced impairments —are quite unknown even unsuspected by the suf- ' Science Now - records show that jg' nfa insurance ’ there is a certain 'definite span oflife) there is Inf act ho jUiwof mor-except that created by the conthat surround? civilized man - II - v V- - ‘ ' fixed of the insurance companies ' and many years ago assuming that 95’ years Is the ultimate span of man life' have been borne out by perlence- among Insured lives Jt has It lies within his power tochange been found that 'annuitants have a these conditions so that his life can much longer span of life and the be Indefinitely prolonged average company in’ spite of Its ef- ‘What the limitations of life may fort to allow for known greater lon-b- e we do not know because we can- - gevity among the annuitants loses not now measure the possible ad- - money on these contracts vances of science We knpw that many diseases have been eliminated We know that certain bodily defects "The span of life of the annuitant lies somewhat between 110 and 120 years This Is ascribed to the type of the individual who takes an annuity He is conservative and thrifty he is protected in his old age from want and Is relieved from the burden of financial care that is a factor in the down of so many lives breaking -The easiest task that lies before science is the ascertaining of these physical defects of physical insuf- ficlency of the existence of inf eo-- ' tlons dietetic errors of errors in ac-tivitjr and mental and personal hygi- and In' protecting the body from adverse Influences The most difficult task in the artof prolong- life is to protect the organism from those griefs and mental strains hu-tali- ty ex-dltio- ns - Diagram Showing the Bate of Increase in Organic Diseases in the United States and in England and Wales of Protected Old Age e Diagram of the Nervous System Which so Often Is Strained by Strenuous American Living of these organic diseases upon earlier periods Actually these are maladies belonging to 60 ‘years and over but thay are' reaching- down into middle jjfo and below apparently attacking - at all ages The question arises why-- ' should Americans wear out grow old' and die prematurely Reasons for Shortened Lives Dr Eugene Lyman Flske states the Situation as seen by the Life Exten- sion movement in highly Interesting terms and Indicates why we have a natural right to live to 125 years “First: The changes which we bote in the average individual and we ascribe to time are not due to time but to various adverse forces or factors that Impinge upon the In-dividual such as Infection poison 100 Years : r ferer That Americans are the victims of a national unpreparedness in the matter of recognizing and combating disease Is revealed by the mortality records which show a marked decline In the power of American workers to withstand the strain of modern life During the past 23 years there has been an Increase of 40 per cent In a death rate of 10000 in the United States registration area from chronlo degenerative diseases These are diseases affecting the heart kidneys lungs and blood vessels which are considered maladies of maturity and old age The alarming feature in our national life Is the encroachment 'Beaching ' -- II -- strain accident Most look people upon these changes as more or less necessary We speak of the condition of 'a man's arteries as 0011081 for his age whereas any change from a soft and resilient ar-tery is in fact a pathological or eased condition due to some poison 0r some unhealthful influence “Second: Notwithstanding the fact of an" apparent law of mortality (that starvation -- Small's Famous Painting' of David Beceiving Bad News Chauncey Depew Says That David's Doctrine of "Three Score and Ten" Has KiUedTen TimesasMany Menas the War aar e h ) co-op-l- end - Great Danger of Present Day : "On the face of such statements the duration - dis-whl- from disillusionment sorrows bereavements and the psychic shocks that have their reaction on the body and make life less worth living “The Life' Extension Institute Is not particularly interested In the mere prolongation of human life It must be obvious that the things we do and the things we advocate for prolonging human life must make it more worth while and more livable “It would be rash to predict that the span of human life will actually be increased to 125 years but here Is no scientific inconsistency in pre-endieting the possibility of such prolon-sucgation if the full resources of science are utilized and If the people erate with science m seeking that Dr Eugene Lyman Fiske Who Says We Ought to Live Far Beyond the Centuxy Mark these organisms seems to have been eliminated simply by the formula of protection from bacterial attack poP BOn starvation strain and Injury Bnd maintaining proper nutrition “These cells are merely a group of cells Tl$ey are not organized or differentiated! There are no organs in this new creature or whatever it may be called that is living relieved of all responsibility to time There are countless billions of cells in the human organism greatly ' different!-"Th- e ated interdependent and difficult equally to protect and nourish hence the problem is more complex and dif-bficult of relieving the human body of responsibility to time and keeping it in a state of eternal usefulness though the only limitation is human knowledge and the facilities of that in other organisms which to many may seem' optimistic t of life seems to be determined by a It may be thought discouraging that certain formula— that is five times the present trend is exactly in : the) the ' duration of time required for Second opposite direction We are not at full 'maturity In man this Is' held Period present piovlng toward the 125 to take place at about 80 years of of the ossification 75 95 full from rather but the toward mark age with of at least in this country where there humerus (a bone in the arfn) which is no evidence that the span of life would' bring us up to an equality Life is lengthening? but on the contrary with the turtles as regards longevity ' “Carrel who is now' doing wondermuch evidence that it is decreasing Doubling in the general death rate ful surgical work in France demon-fall the has misled many into assuming that strated that cells taken from the where are more people living to great age heart iof a chicken embryo First' fall is due wholly to the sav-- they were absolutely protected from this ' ing of lives in the younger age- bacterial attack placed in sterile nu- Period of groups There is an increasing mor- tripnt media and subsequently peri- on growtality in the degenerative affections- odically washed had keptusual Maturity signs organlc disease charao-' lng showing none of the or xne UumaA Artoiai and chronlc ot advanced life o f aging The Influence of Ume on ence IS : ot the Health System Upon :rThe recent life tables of the United States census the first life tables for a considerable section of the country that have ever been pre-- ' pared show that in Massachusetts and New Jersey where in 1880 the death M a piwtlce 8 rate aterer riodwaiowerimut:5be:placed In a taboratorymil V can be absolutely corrected We know than in England and Wales there surrounded by complicated and exI fJPJ ' deDartJent that the word disease’ really ought is now a higher death rate than pensive scientific apparatus - There of man's orzanism to be eliminated from our Wocabu- - In England and Wales 5 and? while daily abti that can recces SSe?i and detkiled simple areminy First 25 at ry The word 'voided that will go youer ha beent condl5Ion Years of far toward enabling the human race f0r a safe efficient and happy mode individual has beenr and lster tality f to ach’ the goal of 125 years These of living in terms suitable to the lay Life Which Brights disease Hlggss disease therehas been shown a loss in thenvolve the 8impie daily acts of Between keep-weleaflets Craves's disease etov All these so-- expectaUon of life of from one to two ng acUvlty diet care of the teet- h- and monthly health betters and the Science whichReflects: a:yery decked called diseases are simply conditions measures under of grouped ren--: the verdicts examinations periodic fact( jln of infection of strain starvation poi- - increase in rate per thou-- the comparatlvely new science of dered by expert diagnostiUans and Says son or injury and are not in any saad at these gesr:Cv-how to live"-'counseUed by a board of hygiene1 ft 'personal hygieneof ‘or sense progressive necessary changes “To summarize:- Death disease the Lifp Extension Should Be of specialists-iThe officers their have to go on when once lnlti-- and old age are not mysterious en-- Institute as 'well' as 100 "'others composed no is lines there reason why spectlve ated as we formerly supposed Multiplied titles Jut definite physical changes prominent in professlonal and busl- - this “toboggan-slidto senility” as r “All of this means that while we due to definite physical causes which ness life forming the hygienic ref Dr Fiske calls It should not be Five Times definitely state the possible are to a considerable degree control- - erence board donate their services marily checked in its menacing ca-' of human life we lable hence'-- the duration of 'huihan s as a- contribuUon to:the welfare of duratlon or span ' £ V v This Period ' " can state that it is possible greatly to life is not fixed and the field is open humanity Salaries are paid only to reer ' — Is Variously prolong human life and that we must to science utterly to change the pres- - the administrative officers and the not accept the life tables as control- ent trend of mortality & tf moderate charges for the service are t Nails growing into the flesh at tiie ! Estimated ling human mortty They: are' “Already much has been accom’ levied! so that the organization may points or sides are said to indicate : merely an expression of what has plished in Sweden Norway Den-- be operated on a luxurious tastes up to happened It Is onlyhuman egotism mark Prussia and other countries basis any surplus going to: further and neglect that 'has allowed usto where the death rate has been low- - extend the publicscope 30 Years : drift ) into this condition where we ered at each age period to facilitate the early The normal temperature of horses ' ' ' In order the deterioration of the body hav- - men and tigers is about the same "A turtle lives 150 years while the covery of diseases-bot- h those which we call agingit as a necessary span of life of the lord of creation is lng their Origin in germinal sources That of chickens Is ill degrees Fab- -' v: process affections— the public renheit and that of glow-woronly 95'5 'and only "Scientists claim ! to have noted is urged to have these periodic phys!- - 74 : ch - r : : - ut - : scl-Diagra- m ‘ ( ? coon - -- ilseasemes& °nich liv-min(-L - ll : jen - - re-th- at - - e ’ sum-cann- ot ’ i - " - -- ! self-supporti- ng ‘ dis-acce- pt ' - ‘ -- - ‘ : - - N c ms i I- - ' - :v- ' -- ' i |