Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-17

In this problem 70 consider three dis
tinct vltallties-the physical, the men
tai and the spiritual. While the physi-
cal, left to itself. might go down under
the present pace that kills the fact Is
that never In the history OF the human
race has the development OF mind been
so general or more spiritual or more
0sprattonal and benevolent than It Is
today, SO that while the pace of gem
eral life Is swifter, IL has stronger
grip of things through recuperative
agencies stored up In it's later knowl-
edge Of things. Ignorance in all things
goes to the wall. The savagery OF life
ID everywhere doomed The dark skim
ned native takes our vices and dies
Gould he take our virtues as well, he
would outlive even the white face, for he
has the larger physical endowment,
but Is lacking In the spiritual, and the
balance Is frlghtfully against him.
I'm q way this fact Is borne out by
the statistics of our own country. The
contrast between the city and country
life shows IT, AS a rule the same pes
simistic opinion Of the world condemns
the city as hot-bed OF vice and lau-
dates the country Now statistics
when rightly understood, have @ cold
bl0oded way Of revealing the facts In
the light Of this revelation, city life Is
seen 10 be the ideal life In all ways.
Take nearly all the prominent dis
eases II will be found in contrast that
tie mortality will be greater In the
country than In the city. Naturally
easily 10 be seen; In the higher sani-
! ~ tVt - h g.tt
tails, benevolent institutions, the
trained nurse and the skilled physician,
TO say nothing Of the comfort Of resi-
dence the nearness Of help at
any hour. Then again, It Is
felt that sic city life Is more vicious
than the country, and yet the number
Of deaths from vicious diseases Is great
or In the country than In the city. And
the reason is again plain in the greater
means at hand In the city for timely
cure, and in the greater and more i'm
mediate knowledge Of the fact, which
sounds the warning before II Is too
late.
And death from alcohol Is greater in
the country than In the city. The
drunkard In the country has no pity
shown him. He Is the subject Of town
gossip, drunken bum. In the city ne
may be overlooked until in some for
tunate turn to his better self he falls
into pace with the better progress of
things, and is rescued"
Asked II there were any particular
types Of disease that We're of a porten-
tial growth, Prof. Stewart said that In
general way cancer was regarded as
a disease that had been steadily grow
ing for years. and in popular way
both college and press had come TO re-
gard II as OF nature that was keep
ing pace with our increasing civiliza-
ton. and due TO our higher living
that Is to say, our better fed bodies.
In late Interview In a Kansas City
paper Prof. Stewart was made to say
that he believed this TO be the fact,
when in truth he holds TO the very op-
poslte yiew-and view supported by a
patient analysis Of statistics. In the
first place, he calls attention to the
fact that the germ Of cancer has been
recently found, and that Its discoverer
has proved the germ by paying the
penalty Of contracting the disease in
consequence Of his experiments. Thus
the conviction that cancer was Inherit
ed is disslpated And now that the germ
has been found. there is every reason
to anticipate an early discovery OF its
cure
Prof. Stewart holds that the exceed
ing increase In the growth OF cancer Is
due 10 the greater nicely in classical
ton OF diseases which now pertains TO
the school Of medicine and this nicely
OF classification has been OF steady
u a
ingly proves the growth OF cancer
would as seemingly prove the growth
OF appendicitis and other diseases BE.
sides, he says, the statistics OF life in
surance companies. and the experience
OF these, Is drawn over the Weather
and better fed classes. shows that can.
Ger has been substantially stationary.
when allowance is made for this nicer
classification. particularly 10 be OBJ.
served among the medical examiners OF
life insurance companies.