Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 59

(Continued from First changing Page.) Innmrm history of mankind during the | | | | last few decades, great as they are,| In a recent lesture Eir|pale hefore certabh others that are Arthur Keith noted some of the dif-| now promising to alter the whole betwean the ave of today and his predecessor of only a few centuries Aago. The - for has, for instance, a “scissor hite” of ference: the teeth instead of an edge-to-edge bite; his facer is fine and longer and Jis palate narrower; his nose is thinner and more prominent. These Arte the modifications wrought upon him by the comparatively slow and slight alterations in his clrtum stances, extended and altered dietary, increased clothing and the like, th went on during the Middle Ages and the subsequent two or three cen turies. They are unimportant in com- | parison with the modifications that | are being pressed upon him by the | chenging circumstances of today. | A | Vi few of us realize the enor.| mous distortions that are now going Qn In the life cvele of the human @nimal. There is a biological revolu tion In progress—of far profounder moment than any French or Russian revolution that ever happened. The | facts come dripping in to us, here a ragraph in a newspaper, there a 00k, now a chance remark: we are | busy about our personal affairs and | rarely find time to sit back and con slder the immense significance of the | whole continuing process. We forget this before we hear of that. and do Dot put two and two together, Here, to begin with, is a specimen of the kind of quietlooking fact that gets by most of us without betraving a shadow of its enormous implica tions. 1 find it mentioned casually in | *“Rejunvenation.” a book by Df. Nor: man Haire. which I chance to be consulting upon a point I shall deal with later. It is that since the open- ip& of the present century insurance statistics, presumably British—Dr. ® Haire does not sayv-—show that the average length of human life within the scope of these statistics has been increased by 12 years. This, when we make the necessary inquiries, does not mean that people are living on to fwo and eighty instead of the tradi- @lonal three score and ten, but that the hope of survival for every infant | born in Britain has been increased in a brief quarter century by about & third. It may expect to live four ‘Sears for every three it could have Roped for if it had been born in 1900, That is the latest step in a serfes of changes that have been going on for a much longer period. It points for- ward to a time when nearly eve child born into a civilized community Il live to maturity. Because of late tharriages and other more disputable causes there are in every thousand individuals of a modern Atlantic pop- ulation 20 or less infants of under 1 year, and upon that such populations can and do increase. * ok k% This marks a quite novel rarity of children in the new world. To judge by Oriental cities in which medieval conditions still prevail and the tomb- stones in old English churches, some- thing llke fifty out of the thousand of our ancestral populations, before the day of our great-great-grand- thothers, were infants under 1 year, of which 30 or more were doomed * to die in childhood or adolescence. A ot of that 30 died in the first year, & lot of the survivors from the previ- Ous year were at the same time dving in their second vear, and eo on. Pro- portionally thers wers more ailing children in that vanished state of af- farrs among our populations that ail the children in our community today. Upward of half the human beings then alive lived what we should now re- gard as tragically foreshortened ex- igtences. And the rest of the popu- lation, the mofety that contrived to w up, must have been mainly oc- pled in mothering, fathering and . nursing this superfiuity of offspring. P As, we examine the dry-looking fig- ures of birth rates and death rates in the vital statistics that have become available in the past hundred years .and touch them with imaginative un- derstanding we begin to realize that the life of man so far, up to our own times—and of women far more so—has been almost wholly a sexual ope: that—wRh the exception of a few priests, nuns, eccentrics and un- attractive women—the full round of life for every one who could achleve it, who wasn't killed too soon, was to grow up, to pair, to produce and sustain & large family, burving most of it, and 8o to decay and age and die. The whole adult life was consumed b¥ sex and its consequences; the busi nese of the family, of making it and of toiling for it, of weeping over the dead and beginning again, was the complete circle of life. Man was al ymost A% sexual as a cat, with its ever recurring kittend. In the past the normal existence fell whoily into the ftame of the family. Man was a fam- fly animal. Now this is no longer the case. Now family life becomes mere. Iy a phase In a more ample experi ence. Human life escapes beside it and beyond it. * x % x Human life, which was almost completely filied by that re productive business, the family under which the neceesity for sexual * preoccupations has enormously di minished.. That means a biological revolution of quite primary quality. Women and men can no longer use themeelves up, even if they | the dentist, the formerly | and standards of conduct. about the has | husiness and come very suddenly upon conditions | jike, thiz searching and probing into would, | age Briton ‘lhnur of the life experfence in quite, another direction. A series of possi ner | bilities and practicabilities are being | recent research that | huge artificia) | adult stage of | opened to us by amount in effect to a extension of the fully life. Homo Sapiens in the past was a creature who normally went to work at the end of childhood. be- | came adult, married, had a large onerous family, lost his er of accommodat distressful, teeth, lost the po : | ing his eyes to distance and came to | an end. It iz only within quite a short period that man has even eked ont his failing powers with glasses and false teeth. “Nature, save Sir Arthur “has worked ont the evelution of the human family on a mean life tenure of 45 vears; she has hitherto run| the human army on a short service | svstem In the near future, on the | contrary, man will not work until )\n‘y i& adult: he will marry much later; he will have a small, s eseful fam ily; he will then go on for some score Keith, | of vears, it may he, hefore he exhibits any of the characteristic decadence of age. Instead of breaking down and being lett by the wav, the ocukist, argeon, will perform roadside repairs and carry him on through a prolonga tion of his efcienc Rut that ie not all; something more than patch ing And carrying on I8 possible: his the neceesary essential vitality can be and will be prolonged. ox oo The researches on which our he lief in the laet and most hopeful of these poseibilities 1s* based—that is, the suspension of senility—are re cerit; the great bulk of them have bheen published since this century be gan, but they amount now to a sub- stantial mass of entirely confirmator: evidence. Metchnikoff was one of the earliest to make the attack upon senfle decay, and his dietetic suggestions and his schemes for a sort of hyglenic evisceration have not proved of any great value, but since his time an in creasing number of investigators, working chiefly upon the internal se cretions of the animal body, have shown more and more convincingly that by simple and easy treatment it is possible to sustain a human being in a state of adult vigor throughout —and concetvably beyond—Shake. speare’s sixth and seventh ages. | Haire gives the results of a score of ahle workers in Germany, Britain, America and other countries—Stein- ach, Lichtenstern, Voronoff and their puplle, associates and rivalsa—who have gradually built up certainties out of epeculations and experiments. R RS In the last month or so Prof. Cavaz- 21 of Bologna has published claims that greatly reinforce and extend these assurances. Adult vigor can be restored and it can be kept up to at least the end of the normal life. Tt can probably be maintained for many vears bevond that lmit. At first ft may be only a few prosperous and enterprising individuals with access to the hest and most skillful advice who will extend the span of their ac- tivity in this way, but it is unlikely that “‘prolongation” will be allowed to remain the privilege of a small class. The average active human life, we may conclude, in the quite near fu ture, will be not only unencumbered but prolonged, in comparison with any but exceptionally sturdy and lucky lives in the past. wik We seem to be passing on now to- ward a state of human society in which there will be no children but active and hopeful children, and though many people will be full of years none will be “aged’; a state of soclety, in fact, in which the aver- age man and woman will be of riper years, far maturer in outlook and far lesa deeply immersed in sexual and family affairs. It will be a com- munity of grown.up people to an ex-| tent quite beyond our present com-| munity. In most of our forecasts and imaginings of times to come we | are apt to disregard this biological revolution which is in progress. and the mental and social consequences | that must follow upon it. It seerha| to indicate the possibility of a world with a different and probably a graver emotional tone, with an art and a lit- erature much less obgessed by the | love story and the elementary adven tures of life and with a political and zoclal life less passionate and impa- tient and more circumspect. Tt is ! not & metaphor: it is a statement of material fact that mankind is growing up, and that we are passing toward a more distinetly adult life as a main stretch of existence, in comparison with the feverishly youthful and tran sitory life of the past. ok The development of the specula- tions that arise out of this statement would carry us far beyond the scope of the present article. Later T hope to return to some of the most strik |ing of them. But the great mass of current discussion about moral codes ethics and sentiment of married and | religious life and the| 3fundamomm things which makes our | | cotemporary literature and journal- | ism o different from that of the last | century, ariges T believe, very largely | out of a need, felt rather than rec ognized, of altering and adjusting our | *fn that immemorial round. The re. Jease of women—if we mayv regard it as a releass and not as a dep rivation—is conepicuously immense. Homo Sapiene, departing from the upual practice of the animal king dom, is beginning to breed much iater than his physical adolescence to conserve all his offspring and so to free and render available, for good o evil, an amount of individual time @pd energy unprecedented in the his tory of lifa. He has changed these - cardinal points in his biological proo- eas in the last hundred vears almost unawares tors, or indeed from any vertebrated creature that lived upon earth The change in conditions 18 all too secent to appear in any inherent quality. Adaptation to the new con ditfons has to be individual, just as education to the old conditions had to be. If the new ‘conditions last jong enough a specific modification facilitaing adaptation will go on, as Prof. Mark Baldwin showed a decade or g0 ago In his far too much neglected diseriasion of the evolutionary process, «Development and Evolution.” That will be an affair of many generations but it will And no doubt it will be made evident by visible physi cal differences as well as physiological alterations. But these current changes in the species has ever come. S0 far he is already a dif farent sort of animal from hie ances. | | working habite and traditional meth- | ods to this very imperfectly appre- | | hended change in human biology, | this shifting of the center point of life from the twenties up toward the | fifties—this rapid and disconcerting | change in the course of a generation or k0. of Homo Sapiens into a more | | completely developed, longer-living | and more persistently vital animal. | (Conyright. 1924, by the New York Times.) | Turkey Making Effort THE SUNDAY MRS. GEORG (Continued from Third Page.) . Tt speaks of only one qus orderly work. Now, this is why good intantions are of eo little value to the practical solution of the problems that confront ue. Good intentions, of course, are very good—as inte And doubtless good Intentions must exist in every good plan. But ever one has had enough experience with well.meaning people to know that good intentions are often sterile It is very surprising to learn how much of the distrust of people in plans for the advancement of ustice in‘human relations is due to the fail ure of so many ill-planned and badly managed good Intentions. Human and noble intentions for social good and human betterment, which failed simply because they had the visionary quality without the creative quality. And one result of this is the almost universal assumption that whatever i good, generous, just and warmly human i& prevented hy those very qualities from being practical. There is an unspoken belief that if a plar is to be practical, it must disreg humanity to & greater or less extent Consideration of others and success for one’s self are belleved to be in compatible. Rk R Another result is the assumption that “creative work’ can only dertaken in the realm of vision speak of ‘‘creative artiste” in music, painting and the other arts. We thus limit the creative functions to pro ductions that may be hung on gallery walle or played In concert halls or otherwise displayed where idle and fas tidious people gather to admire each other’s show of “culture.” But If a man wants a field for real vital creative work, let him come where he is dealing with higher lav than those of sound of line or color; let him come where he may deal with the very laws of personaiity and so- clety. Creative work! We want ar- tists in industrial relationships. We want masters in industrial method, from the standpoints of both the pro ducer and the product. We want those who can mold the political, o cial, industrial and moral mass into a sound and shapely whole. We have limited the creative facuity too much and have used it for too trivial ends. We want men who can create the working design for all that is right and good and desirable in our | lite together here. R Now it is pretty clear that the cre- ative plan, when it comes, will pro- pose surprisingly little that in new; it will consist largely In a readjustment { of the old things. We shall not outgrow the need to work. Some peaple are talking as if the “good time coming” is going to eliminate lahor altogether. Some peo ple appear to think that the only thing that |8 wrong with our present sys tem is that people have to work for thelr living Well, we may be sure on one point work 18 not what ails the world. The world would be infinitely worse off Day V4 To Popularize Flying | A tremendous effort in Turkey to popularize flying. An aviation league has heen formed and many novel methods have been adopt led in order to raise revenue for the purchase of airplanes. F | cigarettes which normally {20 will have only 19 smokes, the | publie being charged the full price | The twentieth will be retained by the factories, the saving realized to go to ithe aviation league. State are held every few weeks and the pro. ceeds are given to the organization Local sugar factories send donations in kind to the league, which sells the [ augar to the people. Finally. taxes ave levied“on the public, and this has caused resentment among foreign subjects. But the sum result is that Turkey fs buying airplanes for which | the government incurs no expendi- ture. lotterfes is being made | ckages of | containt All Fur Fur Lined 13 | 13 Everything Taken EW IN OFFICIA Whose hushand has just been appointed Assistant Attorney General. history is full of the wreckage of high | Evening Gouwns, Wraps, Afternoon and Trimmed Trimmed Hats STAR, WASHINGTON. Dy 0 GE FARNUM, | if i@were not for work. One of the | danger epots of the present time {s | that so many men are trying to evade work as if it were a diseace. There is a class of men who regard the white collar as a sign of emancipation from | work. An idea like that, if true, would soon bring the white collar into | disgrace. Thera are too many men dickering in real estate and not enough men digging in it There are too many agitators, who do not work at all, telling these groups whHo cannot think for them selves that they are to ba commiser ated because they have to work Think of it: here in America, the one country in the world where it has al ways been held honorable that a man should work with his hands—in this country honest work is sought to be made the badge of servility! Say what you will, the man who works with his hands has the best of it. other things being equal. And what 1 want in this country Is srkingman shall have the best of it all wund. This cannot he abolished: but it can be done by abol ishing those limitations and false prac tices which have kept from the worker the reward which ought to be his Profit - sharing. additional annual | bonuses, stock sharing and dividends, |a ciose ‘and sympathetic interchange | of counsel hetween the production and management parte of the business— or, to state it in another way, between the strictly business and strietly hu- man aspects—these constitute a prom. ising beginning. The human part must serve the business part, else there would be no great center of use. ful work which would provide the living of all employed there; yet the business part must also serve the human part, else the service which | the business can render to human well-being would be cut in half. The principle which must become clear to the mind of this and the com- ing generation is that good intentions, plus well thought-out working de- signs, can be put into practice and ecan be made to succeed. (Copsright Only Ten Eligible As Future Queens | | tha | 1927.) | The marriage of Princess Astrid of Sweden to Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium has led a London statistician th compose a list of those remaining princesses eligible by birth and rank to marry into a reigning house, From this list future kings must recruit their queens. And there are’ only 10 left. Here they are, with their ages: Tleana of Rumania,*18; Marie Jose 6f Belglum, 20; Giovanna of Ttaly, 20; Loulse of Holland, 17; Bea trice’ of ‘Spain, 17: Hilda of Luxem- bourg, 29; Eudoxie of Bulgaria, 28; Frodora of Denmark, 17; Marthe of Sweden, Irene of Greece, 22 Seven are Cathollc, Princesses Louise |and Feodora are in the Reformed | Church and Princess Marthe I8 a | Lutheran A Shop of Indsviduality 1217 Connecticut Ave. Evening Dresses Off and Cloth Coats Off Off From Regular Stock JANUARY 9, 1927—PART 2 Seventh and 'Eye Streets. 2nd Week of the January Clearance . For us, this is a means to a desirable store-keeping end. For you, it is an event which pcrmits you to refurnish the home—in whole or in part. Please understand that the offered !pecial! are pnp\\]ar types and standard values—sacrificed for clearance be- cause lots are small or the par';cular stylea will be discontinued. Suites and Separ:te Pieces are available at very deep reductions in price. & : Bedroom Suites and Separate Pieces Four-piece Bedroom Suite, Walnut Veneer, with Gumwood. Both the Dresser and Vanity Case have generous size mirrors, and there is a Chifforobe and Double Bed. Well made and finished. $ 50 It's the Suite illustrated above—Spec- 187L__= 4-piece Bedroom Suite—Dresser, Chest of Drawers, Walnut Veneer and Gumwood. Was $160.00. REDUCED to 4-piece Bedroom Suite—Dresser, Chest of Drawers, Vanity Dresser and Double Size Bed. 2502 fine figured veneer. Was $300.00. REDUCED to any Veneer. Dresser, Chifforobe, Van- ity Dresser, and Double Size Bed, § 27 5.00 DUCED to S-piece Bedroom Suite—very superior construction. Double Size Bed and Bench. Walnut Veneer. Was $575.00. REDUCED to ial at Vanity Dresser and Double Size Bed. ,137-5_0- Made of Walnut and Gumwood. with 4-piece Bedroom Suite, of Colonial type, in Mahog- poster effect. Was $350.00. RE- Dresser, Chifforette, Vanity Dresser, ‘465—02 Four-Poster Bed—Solid Mahogany posts and cross rails, with fine figured Mahogany Veneer s 50 cinibeiheadibaurdl Sited feswd inc ki 49= wide. Was $65.00. REDUCED to Walnut Veneer or Mahogany Veneer Beds. Size 3 feet 3 inches wide. Bow- § .50 shaped foot end. Was $65.00. RE- = DUCED to ; Vanity Dresser, large size Walnut Ve. s 00 neer and Gumwood. Was $115.00. RE- 80= DUCED to Chifforobe—Walnut and Gumwood. Good finish and substantial construction. Was $45.00. REDUCED to Highboy of fine construction and finish. Walnut Veneer. Roomy, convenient draw= 758 Was $90.00. REDUCED to ... R Davenport Bed Suite—Stickley make. Armchair, Rocker and Davenport Bed: Velour ¢ 00 covering. Was $200.00. REDUCED 165_ 1158 — 1304 to . " Stickley Davenport Bed—day-bed tvpe. Plain Taupe Velour covering. Up- holstered ends. Was $140.00° RE- DUCED to Living Room Suites, Etc. 3-piece Overstuffed Suite, as illustrated “above—consisting of Davenport, Armchair and Wing Chair—spring upholstery. including sprini cushion. All fronts and both sides of cushions are covered with Jacquard Velour, while the outside Velour to match. Special iiiciadise 3-piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite—Jacquard Velour, with reversible cushions: plain 11472 velour on the outside backs. Was $165.00. REDUCED to........... Tables Davenport Table—60 inches long. Gumwood in Mahogany finish. Very at- tractive pattern. Was $22.00. REDUCED B0 v iitn e o L s s A O i N Library table—Mahogany Veneer: cen- ter drawer with book shelves on each end. Was $50.00. REDUCED ta. 16 Library Table, 54 inches long—Mahog- any Veneer: scroll pillar ends, with attrac- 37 tive connecting stretcher. Was $58.00. REDUCED to $45£—2 Occasional Table—Octagon-shaped top. Mahogany and Gumwood in combination with figured 333 50 Veneer. Period design. Was $50.00. RE- DUCED ¢to .. . .. N s Dining Suites ) 11988 12372 1365 10-piece Dining Suite—Walnut and Gumwood. Chairs have leather seats. Was $240.00. REDUCED to 10-piece Dining Suite—Walnut and Gumwood. China Closet has grilled door panel and Chairs have Tapestry seats. Was $285.00. REDUCED to 10-piece Dining Suite, of period de- sign—in Mahogany veneer. Excellent construction throughout. Chairs have hair-cloth seats. Was $425.00 RE- DUCED to....... e Telephone Sets Telephone Stand with Stool«—Walnut and Gumwood. Was $12.50. REDUCED Telephone Stand with Chair—Walnut Veneer. Attractive patterh. Was $25.00. REDUCED to. Telephone Stand and Chair—Solid Ma- hogany! finely finished and of pleasing de- sign. Was $30.00. REDUCED to. . ... 104 1182 $)5.0 B R L ack of each piece is covered with plain 5217 50 3.piece Overstuffed Living Room Suite. Very attrac- tive Jacquard Velour, including both sides of Seat Cushions, with plain Velour, in har s 50 monious color on the outside backs. 217'= Was $250.00. REDUCED ¢to ........ Spinet Desks Spinet Desk—fine Walnut Veneer: ex- cellent finish and construction. Was $100. REDUCED to i e Handsome Spinet Desk: 54 inches long —piano style hinge: Mahogany Veneer. Was $110.00. REDUCED to #7540 g0 BOOI(CQSCS 2-door Bookcase, with fancy grill on the glass door panels. Mahogany Veneer and 362.50 Gumwood. Was $78.00. REDUCED to Fine Mahogany Veneer Bookcase—three compart- ment style. Attractive grill work on 1072 thie glass doorsi apléndid construstion throughout. Was $145.00. REDUCED Separate Chairs Hiall QHaiz, without azmss High Cansd ol i back and Caned seat. Walnut finish on Gum. Was $28.00. REDUCED to.. High-back Hall Armchair. Strongly made of Mahogany and Gumwood. Seat 212 and back are Caned. Was $48.00. Re- DUCBD to .......co00. Chasrs Hall Armchair—Solid Walnut. High .50 33 5.00 = Caned back and Caned seat. Was $60.00. s4 REDUCED to. . “a e Wing Armchair, with Velour seat and s 00 back. Spring upholstery. Was $42.00. 30(= REDUCED to s Arm Rocker—upholstered seat and s 00 back: with Velour covering. Was $32.00. 25‘== REDUCED ¢o. . ..... R Overstuffed Armchair—genuine leather, with imi- tation leather on the outside back. Loose $ 75 cushion spring seat and spring upholstery. 33'= Was $38.00. REDUCED to............