The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1919, Page 28

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919 | ewest Ponce de Leon Promises Y outh to the Aged; New Glands for Old For Centuries Scientists Have Sought the Secret of Beating Old Age, but the Human Race Can- not Rid Itself of the Spirit of Growing Old and Dying. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) i HEN the newest Pohce de Leon, Dr. Serge Voronoff, announced in | Paris the other day that he would give youth to the aged and prolong life indefinitely by the simple process of grafting new | interstitial glands on old bodies, he was but the last of @ long ceries of scientists who have thought to satisfy one of the supreme desires of the human heart by dis- covering the fountain of eternal youth. | Dr. Voronoff, so far, has experimented only with | animals, but by cy supplying aged goats and rams with interstitial giands from young animals he - reports that he hae rejuvenated specimens the veteri- bigs were injected. ‘Thus, whatever! part needed to be restored, a corre: sponding part was taken from some) animal in a normal state. At seventy-| two Dr, Brown-Sequard declared he bad given himself subcutaneous in- Jections of his lymph with most bene- ' Mary declared would be dead within | ficial results, but he died four years <& Week. He gets over the diMiculty |later and physicians in this country ; | ot providing « gland supply for human |had no degree of success in their ex- periments with his treatment. Another famous Ponce de Leon was Prof. Elie Metohnikoff. He said the principal agent in senile decay was the continuous auto-intoxication of the body through the putrefaction of matter in the large intestine. For combating the bacteria that cause this putrefaction he advocated the “sour milk cure”—preparations of milk soured by cultures of selected lactic acid bacilli, He thought man should live 150 to 250 years. But he died in 1916 at the age of seventy-one. That radium is the elixir of life is claim made by several scientists. One of these was Prof. Gabriel Petit of Alfort, France, who injected two mil- grams of radium into the jugular Vein of a very old horse with most re- Juvenating effects, Dr. Saubermann of Berlin also has declared that radium restores the hardened arteries of the middle-aged to a healthy condition and so prolongs life. At least two physicians who believed they had discovered the secret of pro- longing life bave won much attention in this country. One of them, Dr. Frank R. Starkey of Philadelphia, told in 1912 how he had rejuvenated physi- cal health by giving intra-muscular injections of a combination of extracts from the pituitary, the thyroid and other ductless glands. The next year Dr. Bugene B. Witte of Trenton, N. J., told The Evening World of his success in Injecting a secret, thin, reddish-brown liquid into the veins of patients suffering from a great variety of troubles. Dr, Witte argued that all diseases—inctuding old age itself—are due to an impoverished condition of the blood and offered to give proof that his formula could pur- ify and renourish the blood, thu: warding off disease and senility. So they follow the quest of old Ponce ge Leon—but not yet has the human race rid fttself of the bad habits of growing old and dying. certain HIS USUAL LUCK. N the course of one of his lecture trips Mark Twain arrived at a small town, Before dinner he went to a barber shop to be shaved. “You are a stranger?” asked tho barber, “Yes,” Mark Twain replied. ‘DMings by suggesting that the glands °) ot apes be used and also those of 7 youthful victims of accident. Through _ hb experiments, be asserts, there has béeh taxen “the greatest stop toward perpetual youth, which may soon de Fyalop into a scientific fact.” - One of New York's Mayors, Abram B. Hewitt, beliéved be projonged his itt and won back the vigor of earlier days by taking the “elixir of life” pre- } oly the Frenoh scientist, Dr. : Glycero-phosphate of sodium -tthbeutancousty injected was the basis ‘this treatment, recommended to the Academy of Mediaine by Dr. in 1894 and taken by Mr. How- th 1900 in Paris. Ho returned to thie ammerting he had gained health and strength, al- near his eightieth . Three years later, however, @ied in New York from jaundice. Through The World in 1910 Dr. ro iiss & would prolong the average from fifteen to twenty do away with most discases , ‘the respiratory organs and diges- tract, together with cancer of the . the doctor explained, is Hettnposed of colloids—jelly like, in- ‘adluble substances extracted from al- lic ferments and remaining sus- SAW! l in liquids in infinitesimal par- Fee Mert ay te ttn Ite nae) stomach or through the blood and ! nd ‘atts by stimulating enormously the | @4groduction of phagorytes, the little _ qaite corpuscies of the blood that act ‘em scavengers. “It is as truly an ‘) Odlixir of life as that sought by the Ms) ancient alchemists,” maintained the R making public his remarkable Dr. Voronoff admits he was ‘on by Dr. Brown Sequard’s experiments which enabled to proclaim that he had discov- Ca the secret of eternal youth,” 2 No scientist with a formula for protonging life has created more of a sensation than this same Dr. Brown- Bequard, who in 1889 announced to the ri a French Academy that he had dis- nd could extract from ani- “This takex in the subway every day. ates ishii . + parently in search of a spectacular |; ,, bi a kes bi pending en upon known factors, vital -yoenychaed beanie at cant | is the first time I've been here. death, and he died like a worn out ie daa the steel will hold the} spe rocket exploded,” he would/ the known resistance of a given num- that a proce & seer “You chose a good time to come,” | pookkeeper. veer my wtrength last?” He knew |S2mit_Very well. That was Bot | ber of square feet of-parachute to the naa the barber continued. “Atark Twain Is] "Law used to way with all apparent |i, vicamve erie cnameewon Sn | air, and t'e rate at which the weight aries eau of his body would overcome that re- You'll go, I suppose?” “Oh, I guess so." “Have you bought your ticket?” “Not yet.” “But everything ts sold out. You'll have to stand.” “How very annoying!” Mark Twain said, with a sigh. “I never saw such ‘stance of an animal in @ normal state ‘wag edministered through the diges- ! It other portions of the _ |, thve organs. luck! 1 always have to stand when 7) body requirea repairing, glands taken | that fellow. lectures.” — Edinburgh from certain parte of dogs and guinea | Scotsman, By Hermine Neustadtl | | How It Started “The Star-Spangled Banner.”’ HO made the first American flag — the whole charming story of Betsy Ross—we all But why our flag is composed ‘ef stars and stripes and the signifi- ij ©«@ance, which there must be, of this edesign, is either unknown or the sub- * of @ popular misconception. ‘BR te oaid that “The wish is father the thought,” and this may be the why some historians say that flag was taken from the coat of of the Washington family which displayed in a church in Eng- where the ancestors of George Me Buried. This is really ‘a coincidence. For, curious as it y that the newly liberated this ° the Union Jack, whose colors were retained. The red and white were used for the thirteen alternating stripes which represented the thirteen States, The blue field was used to supply a place for the remaining color, on which the stars again represented the Btates. pa >to JUMBLED WORD TEST. Directions—If these letters are pat im their correct order they epell the name of & common vegetable. Hee how long it takes for you to write out all the correct names, 1, Epa. 11, Otmota. 2 Tebs 12, Hidras. 8. Neba. 13. Taopto. 4. Kora. 14, Kunipmp. 5. Inono, 15. Pinaper, 6. Riptun. 16. Utetlec, 7. yer, te) 4 CHEATED D Perhaps when Conan Doyle or eome other of the journalistic spiritudlists gets an interview with the spirit of Law and brings back a message from | him the message may be: “Didn't I tell you?" But he did take chances, even if they did not take him, Ituth, a cautious young woman who seldom does anything more risky than turning somersaults in the sky in her airplane, used to scold him for taking chances and urge him to be careful —like herself. “I never take chances,” Ruth tells the reporters, and yet it is said that even she has been known to sit ine draught. Nine years ago The Sunday World published a double page of photo- graphs and an article about how they were taken. They were pictures of New York taken from the gilded globes on the tips of skyscraper flag- poles, Law took them. To do it he climbed the poles, globes, and clicked, trick of steeplejacking in those pre- war and pre-modern airplane days. But !t was only the beginning of Law's airy career, He was “taking no chances.” was starting with stunts that were comparatively simple, graphs, which were published to show what an airplane photograph would look like if such a thing had existed then, were obtained by the same sort|the other man to be right--just as eold calculation which Law and 1 when we subway to Brpok- - \ * ‘ Rodman Law Leaped From the Statue of Liberty; Crawled Up the Sides of New York Skyscrapers; Balanced on His Head on the Top of the Singer Building Flagpole; Jumped From Brooklyn Bridge; Was Shot Out of a Monster Skyrocket; Yet He Died ,in Bed. YUMPED FROM WILLIAMS BURGH GRioce witt PARACHUTE PaRachuTeo FROM Sratuc cRrosgud ausae.e cHaem HAND over <« oF LiseRT~ af) fe ° ON, MOTORCYCLE witty GIRL BEHIND RODE THROUGH OPEN CRAW BRIBGE over. SHREWSBURY RivER mae Copyright, 1919, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ODMAN LAW died in bed on Tuesday in a hospital at Greenville, 8. C., of pulmonary tuberculosis. He had jumped from half a dozen flying airplanes, sometimes a mile high; he had deliberately ridden motorcycles at race speed through open draw bridges; he had “stepped” from the top of the Flatiron and Rankers' Trust Buildings to the street below; he had permitted himself to be shot into the air in a steel skyrocket, trusting to his ability to come down safe; Jumping off the Hast River bridges was an amusement of his until it bored him and until the traffic or police seemed more dangerous to him than the jump: he had gone up in a Ddalloon and deliberatoly over his head. Scores of times he had gone ap- exploded it his nerves. safer, His sister, throughout when he by leaned over the pointed the camera down— It was a remarkable He ‘Those photo- came down, claimed to be guided by. three questions: “Will the pole hold?" question that any builder could an- swer in any given case, just as the architect of the Woolworth Building “Will my nerves behave?” He knew ‘Thus by his own calculation he felt that it was demonstrated that the stunt was safe. The pole would hold, his muscles would serve, his nerves would be steady. safe ason the ground—and possibly \ That same process, complicated by | including a wider range of factors, | Law sald, was his The average man on the ground,! figures his chances at all, does it in some such way. an elevator in a tall building and goes | to the thirtieth or fortieth floor. figures that the builder has mathe- matically demonstrated the strength | of the lift, the strength of the bulld- | ing, and that these have been checked | regular city things might happen—but he figures that he Is taking no chances, One of Law's stunts that resulted in an accident and almost cost him his life was a stunt in which the risk culation had to be taken in large part by others than him: skyrocket stunt. | A fireworks manufacturer's gineer figured that a steel rocket cou'd be shot into the air by the force of a certain weight of powder, and that if @ man were in the rocket the man would not be injured until the rocket He asked That was a He would be as the one he used! spectacular career. He enters | He} inspection, Many That was the en- Law, not being an engineer, trusted JUMPED ofr BANKERS TRUST BLvG. 41467 Floor, ayn up to date. his rocket experie! defended earnestly his original caleu- lution and would have said that ko:ng up in the rocket he bad tak+n cnly the chance that all New York BROOKLYN AS HUMAN FL #e cCLimsend FRONT OF ANSONIA trust an engineer battleships are sailing (The New York Evening World.) DEAR EVERYBODY: I JUMPED FRom BRicee ‘ATH SCORES OF TIMES to keep the) calculable ch:.nce River from descending on our | been known to cave in—and that |" Leuds, and calmly read a newspay whille head. over-|so far ag the passengers were con-| We escape injury because the engineer we have trusted is right— Law did not escape in- jury on the rocket occasion, because the engineer he trusted did not prove to be right. Lut even on a hospital bed after Law would have GOING DOWN! Copyright, 1919, by The Prens Publishing Co, do not believe God Almighty ever intended human beings to live in flats, apartments, rented houses, hotels or rooming houses, but He did intend them to live in HOMES which they own. To further my contention, I looked up the word RENT in my dictionary and I RE ment for houses, &c, the use of find T ig a fissure, tear, pay- lands, A fissure is a cleft or a slit, while the verb “tear” to part asunder violently, Perhaps you can follow enough to means me ee that a tenant is likely to “part asunder vio- these days, A wisdom greater than own Is driving us to Sweet Home,” longs for three things: man, a baby and a HOME. How a man longs for to his mind, and babies "Tis well to “tear violently” and buy a he your own! Yours truly, ALFALFA .S5MIT! lently” a profiteering landlord our “Home, How a woman A cave just ONE thing, a HOME, which, includes a wife asunder » of ‘H. a : matt cm my? mm tere DEE Yk PD q tl TRIED TOBR +#umaNn SKY Rocker The subway has | Was not a calcul hance, at least ole cerned, If the rocket, instead of exploding, had gone straight up as it was in- tended to do, the rest of the calcula- tion would have been up to Law— |and he had the . Iculation made, So many second. to fly straight up, so) many seconds to release himself from | 1 box, so many seconds to get parachute free—and then a pi in had already mac He would be de- sistance and tring him down. Noth- ing to worry about. Nothing to worry about excepting the comparative strength of the steel rocket and the force behind it—and these were things for the engineer | to worry about, not for Law. Of| | himself he was sure. If chances were |taken, they were taken by others. He did not consider himself a dare- devil. The world said he was a dare-devil when he rode that motorcycle at sixty-five miles an hour over the open draw of the bridge over the river at Sea Bright, N. J. But he knew the width of the river, knew the rate at which gravitation would take him down, knew his forward speed, knew the motorcycle would sink uif- der him, felt as confident as an ar- tllery gunner who knows how to shoot at an invisible mark—felt con- fident enough, in fact, to invite a girl to go with him, did take her, and| they both landel safely. hen Law stepped to the edge of the roof of the Bankers’ Trust Build- ing and etepped off for a forty-three | story Jump the photographer who took the picture fainted. If Law had tuberculosis. But he knew he was not going to faint, and he was not taking the pho- tographer with him and so he was “taking no chances.” There was a fainted he never would have died of | Hunter College Girls Their Domestic Skill Demonstrated During “But even before that were among the first to assist in tak- ing the State census went to England and cave a series of of all parts.of the State. If you re-| lectures on corn products and how to member, there was no appropriation | Use them. The English had no trouble : hs a |with wheat and other grains but for this task, and our girls volun- maize, the native Indian corn of teered to do the work. Both the stu- | America, has always puzzled them. dents and in many cases the teachers “However, outside of our war : thc orkers we have many other women organized under Miss Elizabeth Col- | Wo! ’ |graduates who have become weis lier and took the census of all the|fnown,” continued Miss. Hickin east side of New York from 42d Street | jjottom. “For instance, there jto 100th Street. | up-State in outlying districts, |found a body of girls speeaking as many different languages and as able to act as interpreters,” continued Dr. {Acialls, Josephine Burr, hess yemee | woman who writes poems for Cen Davis. “While 79 per cent. Sone tury, Scribner's and the Atlantic girls are born right here in New York | yfonthiy, is one of our graduate |we have twenty-four different na- tionalities represented here, The Hun- garian girls were sent among the Margucrite Merington, author of | Hungarians, the Italian girls among) soaytain Letterblair. And of course the Italians, and so on all through the] you remember Germany's poem of | east side and foreign quarters, | and proved so efficient in taking census pealed to us for aid. that we simply shut down the col- lege for three weeks and gave the} girls up to the different sections of | the city. the number of letters of recommenda- | member, ‘ tion I received from the various heads BS, pg site ein 8 renure pis hol ele verle oO} e of the boards. In checking the whole | Gir) and the Job," is also another * matter up it was found that there) author graduate. And Miss Adele | was less than 4 per cent. of error, | Bildersee, author of a book on Jew- ‘4 ish history, also belongs to our which bevy » oi fag A poise alumnae. So you see we have a host when other Dra! 04 et languages came t hute drop like scores of others he| | tajabat aint ICI THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919 \ Can Cook, Clean House Or Take Care of Babies the “Flu” Epidemic—Dropped All Studies and Gave Their Services to the Draft Boards for Three Weeks—South Amboy Explosion Found Hunter Nurses in the Thick of ‘the Fray—Annual Jubilee Re- union Saturday. By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NTER COLLEGE is to celebrate its annual jubtice reunion next Saturday afternoon. But this year the joyous festivities of a col loge reunion’ will mean more than ever before, for during the wat and during the siege of the influenza last winter, Hunter College students did even more than “their bit.” Both President of Hunter College Dr. George S. Davis and the Dean, Miss Annie K. Hickinbottom, tola me of the work of the students as e body and as indi viduals. “or three weeks, we closed our col-|in their individual work. ‘We have | two girl graduates of whum Lam very lege a ay | aw nine jege and Lhd the proug,” she said, “Miss Marguerite students over tO) Jones and Dr. Murguret B. wilson the Draft Board," | Miss Jones organized the Paris Y. W said Dr. Davis.|C. A. which ts called “Foyer” over - |there and is now entering her se the oer ee | Cea year of service. Dr. Wilson, sher of physiology und hygi the population | They also worked] Rosalie Loew, the lawyer: | ot the Women's Medic Lillian Lilly, P' jation of Women's Clubs jof writers and poets and tempera- mental folks. “[ doubt if the city could have Josephine ‘A, Meyer, a member of the Washington Square Players, is an- other one of our girls. Then there is * | hate?” asked the de with a twinkle in “Who could forget it?’ turn. Draft Board @P-| «wwe, laughed Miss Hickinbot- Then it waS/tom, “Miss Helen Gray Cone, the girl whoanswered that poem in her ‘Hymn of Love’ is also one of our graduates, England took that poem for her very”. own and special copies of it were dis- tributed for several days, if you re- turning to me “Our girls did such good work I asked in that the I cannot begin to tell you of graduates of whom we are very proud. The main purpose of the col- lege is to give an all around training, but the girls obtain the foundation at the same time for teaching and other professions. In a measure, the course leads to the law, medicine, journal- ism, business, science and many 2 | Works by providing foundations.” times there were as many as shinee | oren By provising CO speek ane and four members of one famUlY) with a high school diploma. Mention stricken at the same time and the cannot be given to its many success- Kirls went into these families and/ful graduates who have made names themselves useful in every for themselves. Dean Hickinbottom spoke with enthusiasm of the work way. They nursed, cooked, cleaned | Pocus of the recent graduates in house, took care of the babies 4nd /the City Bank, of the statisticians did everything that ‘was needed to|employed by ‘the Western Union. « ly going. Also in many | “Many of our graduates go to keep the fanilly go jat once for a good round salary," cases our girls who spoke forel6M | caig, “put ather Knickerbocker © the ald of many | need not be afraid that his girls are \all going to desert the public school When war wages were prevailing and the salaries for entrants in the school system were low, out of 210 graduates last June, 115 passed the examination for license No. 1 and seventy-seven for high school licenses, or a total of 192 out of 210, which proves that Hun- ter remains true to its original voon- tion.” Hunter College will celebrate tts fiftieth anniversary on St, Vaten- tine’s Day. checked throughout the city. “and then when the influenza swept our city our girls came for- ward again. Nurses were especially ceded in Riverdale, which is just Some- west of Van Cortlandt Park, made reigners. | “During that Tnt explosion at South Amboy three of our young la- dies ‘hurried to the rescue as nurses and did splendid work. They were Miss Clara Byrnes, Miss May Cermak and Miss E. Vera Loeb, a teacher of oral English in the college. Here, under the auspices of the Red Cross, they did a vast amount of nursing and social service work.” Miss Hickinbottom, the dean of the college, had more to say of the girls ® Fenn AAR ARADO AR AAR ACOIOCCROCCOAOCOROCODOCO LED TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich : eaeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnennAAAAAA AANA AAAAARRAOODAAOA ORLA é Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World.) Cut the Comedy. Noo objects to humor—humor But there is something seriously wrong with one whose sense of de- cency and goodness is insufficient to prqvent the making of quips and quirks that hurt the feelings of the man or woman at whom they are aimed A good many people think their wit is as fine as ground steel when it is really as crude as pig iron. A sense of humor is a saving grace; but wit is a dangerous tool—more apt to be abused than used, to sear than endear, to oppress than impress. Ne man can afford to play fast and loose with anoth sacred sentl- ments, to flout and jest with or make light of or puns on what to any one else is near and dear, A glib tongue occasionally gives a man a reputation as being clever and that is sly, gentle, racy and dignified—humor that is ef- fective and leaves smiles, not scars. a higher window and Law climbed gome more, She went still higher—in an elevator—and he still higher on the wali, trusting to his toes and fingers, with which he was very well acquainted, Hoe went up thirteen stories that way and it looked as if he were taking a chance or two. But he would have been ashamed of him- self if he had thought 80. When airplanes learned to climb to 5,000 feet Law went with them and jumped out, trusting his parachute He did not know exactly what would happen to an airplane suddenly re- lieved of his weight, but he did know how parachutes worked, The man who stayed in the airplane might be wind, it was true, but that was calcu~ of the Sub Treasury. One afternoon Hotel. He took off his hat, dropped his walking stick, He alighted neatly on the roaf| he was safe. Law turned from | ing and happy when he was about to 74th Street into Broadway and saw a do a new stunt girl at the window of the Ansonia jng, She would plunge into her hous vaulted a steel minute, railing and began climbing tho face until a telegram should come with of the pbuilding—one of his ny two words: “Down O, K." “human Oy” nicks, The gin tel Mra Rodman witty, but reaping time is bound to com and then his cleverisms and wittiel will grow into a crop and harvest of unpopularity and disfavor that will overwhelm ail the explana- tons, extenuations and apologies niay ‘of You can't harass people into hap- piness—every time you try it you add another word to your obituary, Bete ter cut the pomedy, 4 taking a chance, but Law figured that He alighted nicely His wife said he was always smil- She did the worr work and make her fingers fly every trying to relieve her mind Law took chances.