Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 16

A—16 = [GNORANGE LIMITS LIFE, SAYS EXPERT Ripe Old Age May Mean 200 When Research Completed, Scientists Think. By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, April 23 —Man's chance to live 200 years was discussed today at the opening of a three-day session of the American Philosophica! Soclety here. He may expect soon, it was asserted, to add 10 more years so that the ma- jority of us live to 70. Present medical science may later carry the average to 90, but beyond that lies a barrier—ig- norance. The beginnings of a knowledge that may lift even this barrier were de-| scribed by Lee K. Frankel, second vice president of the Metropolitan Insur-! ance Co. “I am making a conservative state- ment,” he said, “when I say that there | is no evidence at this moment that| | Whether it necessarily means that, he report to this same American Philo- sophical Society showing that in 1791 One-Celled catches of minute, single-celled crea- | ! tures of the sea have been taken in 10 Oceanogaphy. speed, in pails from the surface and | levels. Whether the span of Iife can be ex- tended is not a matter of a day. Re- search for many decades and in en- tirely new fields will be required.” Nobody, he said, wants to live to be 200 if old age means merely senility. predicted science will find out perhaps in the next 50 years by cutting the ill- ness rate in two. Then perhaps man will face “a century of unimpaired use- fulness,” with a quick, happy ending. Mr, Frankel quoted a 140-year-old man’s average life was about 35 years. Today he saild the average expectation is 60, and it will rise to 70 “if we can further reduce the incidence of transmissible disease: IS FISH FOOD STUDIED Are | Sea Creatures Caught by Scientists. LA JOLLA, Calif. (#).—About 20,000 | years by the Scripps Institution of | These catches have been made in canvas buckets from steamers at full in self-closing bottles at sub-surface Hundreds of thousands of the crea- | gortlla? e ks THE EVENI STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, SEEK TO IDENTIFY PEIPING “WOMAN" Hailed as Species of Early Man Relic Faces Final Examination. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, April 23.—Man, woman or | The mask which hides the answer, & coating of flinty stone, is coming off the frontal bones of the famous Peiping “woman” a few grains at a time. Dug from a million-year-old geolcgi- cal strata northwest of Pelping by W. | C. Pel and hailed as a new species of early man, this relic still faces its fins examinations at the hands of scientists. First Called Man's Skull. First the skull was judged to be that of a man. Then as more of its covering was removed the probability was an- nounced that it is a woman's head. Now Sir John Bland Sutton has spoken openly his belief that it is nothing more | ulation has dwindled to less | thropus Erectus, f Peiping. It is under the sole care of Dr. Davidson Black, anatomist of the hospital. He believes the ancient bones are human, Rock Coating Removed. With fine tools he is removing the rock coating the interior of the skull al- most & grain at a time. The priceless relic, preserved in desert sands for cen- turies, must not be ruined by hurried preparations. ‘When the interior is cleared, the brain capacity can be measured, and it may | tell of a being who had traveled far on the road toward human intelligence. In the whole world there are only two other comparable finds. They are the Piltdown fragments recovered in Eng- land from geological strata identified as a million old, and_the old Java man, the much argued Pithecan- quently estimated at half a million years Both the others are more fragmentary than the Chinese skull. Black's patient picking may go far toward clarifying man's antiguity Cap Dix, N. J. is now a “de- serted village.” From a thriving com- nunity of 50,000 in war ¢ the pop- han 200, IRISH MARRIAGES DROP Statistics Show Fewer Colleens Hit by Cupid’s Darts. DUBLIN (#)—Cupld’s marksmanship on Irish colleens is getting worse. Vital statistics for the British Isles show marriages in the Free State have | deelined steadlly, the last quarter’s to- | tal belng the smallest In the last 10 | years. | The birth rate in the Free State |ranks third, ahead of England and Wales, but behind Ulster and Scotland. 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Allen of the institu- tion, and reports have been written and published for about 12,000 of the catches. He calls this a census taking of the food of fish. human life may be prolonged beyond its presumed biclogic limits. All the evi- dence indicates that man, like other animals, lives an allotted time. All that has been done thus far has been to save the wastage of life at the younger AReS. Columbia National Bank Capital & Surplus, $750,000.00 911 F Street Man Conquers Environment. “Yet we must remember that man differs from other animals, in that he | is a reasoning being. Certain insects Jive a day. The elephant lives 200 years. | These animals adapted themselves to their environment. Man has not only adapted himself to his environment, but in many instances has conquered it. How far this may go no one can tell “Certain significant researches |nI ‘Lhe ‘They recent past should be mentioned are at 1 tive. Mr. immarized Child's evidence that aging is most rapid in vouth but slows down there- after, Carrells belief that a man’s years bear “no definite relation to his Teal age.” Crile's artificial and partly living cell, chicken hearts kept alive 20 Yvears in glass dishes, this Spring’s an- houncement at Johns Hopkins that rats fed on diet free from mineral man- ganese lose affection for their young. Research Will Tell Tale. “Who knows” he said, “what the future may hold in store if the theory is correct that the universe and man- kind are kin and that both are made up of protons, electrons and photons? them as bttt O Bl O oo g T e T T TR T T Are You Carrying the Right Kinds and Proper Amounts of Insurance? Talk With Us About Insurance of —at home, sojourning or traveling. worry of responsibility covered by protecting i Your Valuables Don'tcarry when this can all be nsurance. The cost is inconsiderable compared with the satisfaction which accompanies such secu- rity. "RANDALL H. 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