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Show ON BEING YOUNG Another fond dream seems to have gone wrong. According to chemists and physiologists of the University of Chicago, years of experimentation of gland transplanting to recreate youth or prolong life, have proved to be al failure and the experts have concluded that "it cannot be done." Dr. Carl Moore, directing research on the lines indicated, declared: "It is perfectly true that a transplanted gland will live for a while, but it is equally true that it will not grow or renew re-new its functions. There is not the proper blood circulation through the whole gland to feed it and keep it alive." A few years ago we heard a lot about gland transplanting, and the more optimistic were beginning to believe that surgery was at la.st going to defeat old age and keep mankind young long beyond the span of years alloted by nature. But now it seems that nature has won again and it is still impossible to beat Father Time. The desire to remain young is of course to be found in the heart of every normal human being, although it is generally asserted by the philosophers philo-sophers that old age, with it3 broad and calm perspective of life has its compensations. ; It is evident, however, that if we remain young, we will have to do it with borrowed glands- The best way of course to assure a long youth is to take care of youth while we have it, to live well ordered lives and not to expend our vital resources in too great a display of uneless energy and in dissipation. After youth has departed, efforts to get it back through the medium of jazz and its stimulative accompaniments accom-paniments is both ineffectual and pitiable. And after all it must not be forgotten that the man who lives a normal and orderly life through the span of years alloted by the Bible, is capable of at least enjoying three youths of his own. First there is the youth of his early years. Then comes the youth of his children, and again the youth of his grandchildren. If he makes the proper sort of comrad for his children and his grandchildren, entering enter-ing into their problems and their play with, youthful spirit which no man need lose, no matter what his years, he will enjoy his childhood a second and third time. Any man who has had the experience will tell you how it works. Of course it may be answered that every fellow isn't blessed with children and grandchildren. Perhaps not, but if he has none of his own, they are asily borrowed. With the great number of youngsters on every hand who need to be fathered and grandfathered, there ought to be no trouble on this score. So if you are longing for youth to return, don't try glands or jazz. Get yourself a couple of real, live youngters if you haven't any of your own, and live your boyhood over again. It will work and you will find it the only satisfactory way to become young again. |