The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-11-21
Blood and Money Circulate Much
Alike in Their Separate Systems


parison drawn by a physician She
other day. According to this doctor
the blood In the human body is about
one-fourteenth of the weight of the
whole body, much less than is popu-
larry supposed and much less than
scientific men supposed up until
about 800 years ago. The ancients
over-estimated the relative weight of
the blood to the body many times,
but accurate experiments now show
II TO run from one-fourteenth to one
sixteenth. The sight Of blood espe-
cially when II is coming from a fresh
wound seems to have the effect Of
stimulating the imagination of on
lockers, as reports of an accident
usually tell of pints and quarts OF
blood being lost by the patient when
In fact much less was lost.
Money has about the same relation
to the commercial body that blood
has to the human body. The actual
amount of money is always a small
proportion OF the amount OF business
done and statsticians pretty gener-
lally agree that In the United States
the proportion Is about "a to C. That
Is "a per cent Of business is conduct
ed on paper or credit, while only
per cent Is transacted with cash. 1t
is apparent from this fact that a very
little loss OF money will have the
same effect on the commercial body
that a loss of blood has on the human
body. Each Is a small but vital part
OF much larger mass.
To see a large human body abso-
lutely worthless and Inactive because
of an absence Of one-fourteenth of
its own weight is not more surpris-
ing than To see the great commercial
body lying helpless because OF lack
Of per cent OF its own weight.
Yet in the United States today.
paralysis IS seizlng upon the great
commercial body from no other cause
than that the per cent of money
circulation has been greatly decreased
and the wounds from which this vital
fluid have escaped are not merely
seen In the wrecked trust companies
OF New York. In every town i'm the
United Stetes today the commercial
body has been wounded and the cir
culating huid-money-is flowing
out in streams more or less large. In
total this loss Of circulation to the
commercial body has been sufficient
to call for such decisive steps 90 stop
the disaster as issuing cashiers
checks and selling new government
bonds. AS far as they could. the
parts OF the commercial body that
have been wounded and from which
the precious hfe-huid Is escaping.
have undertaken to heal themselves,
and Il is their action alone that hes
prevented n speedy and disastrous
end to business operations. If the
banks all over the country, from
which the vital G per cent OF eircula-
ton was escaping through with
drawals by tlmid depositors. had al
lowed their cash reserves to go out
unhindered. the commercial body
weeks ago would have been as dead
as the human body becomes under a
steady outflow Of blood.
Local Treatment.
Cashiers checks and government
deposits so far have been the court
plaster and bandages hastily thrown
over the gaping wounds in the COM
mercial BODY but the blood has been
soaking through them and now the
government proposes to wrap another
bandage around the wounds with an
issue of s15O,00O.OO0 in bonds and
short time certificates.
Being so small a part OF the hui
man body, the blood must circulate
rapidly TO perform its function. No
matter where you wound the human
body, blood will begin to flow and If
the wound is not stopped, II will not
merely lose the blood Immediately
near the wound. A system of ave
nues in the body make Il possible foi
the whole blood supply TO escape
from the little toe as readily as from
the loss of an arm. though, of course,
not so rapidly. Everything that is
successful has a system Of operation
and the blood having TO perform
such remarkable service has won.
derful system. Stagnation would be
as fatal to the blood as to money, and
besides the blood has to run uphill
most Of the time. To accomplish
this a power house has to run nigh
and day and that power house is th'
heart. The blood that one time 10 II
the head may take a new route and
be in the foot soon after and this sys
TEN of circulation with the heart a
the center Of action may be effected
by a number OF causes, but no causl
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