Evening journal., 1909-11-19

preston OF the cause, and that II IL
more than likely that the disease n
nrst conceived In tho mind and then
mirrored forth upon the flesh.
Quite recently an eminent physician
OF New York created a sensation AZ
public meeting by declaring that mod
ern surgery and medicine we're but
groupings In the dark for with all our
Topping away at tho branches we had
none of us discovered the cause OF It
all. There are many scientists who
agree with him, who realize that the
body fetch has reigned too long and
that the primal cause must be mental
rather than bodily. for with all the in
vestigations into that queer neshiy
mass no physiologist yet has discovered
wherein lies the secret that displaces
cell or tissue. the energy that drives
the muscles to contract as they do nor
the power that enables us to lie un-
conscious aud that yet drives on the
heart TO beat and tho lungs TO rise ana
fall. Ficsh is. after all. no more than
clay. no greater than the vegetable. and
can have no intelligence of its own.
Worry Worse Than Disease.
. In the light OF the most recent science.
- rule that worry kills more human be-
ines than disease and that back OF
l.. nearly all our woes rs the fact oL tear
=, Think Of the 1000 needlessly sacrificed
Il lives each day and what we are doing
TO prevent them. Consider the 1000
= yearly cases OF infantile paralysis in
: New York alone and what is not being
] done 70 stop that slaughter OF the in
nocents. And think you also what
means the work Of the physician. the
surgeon, the great hospital. All these
1 are agents after the fact, and what we
need are sentlnels who viii act before
the catastrophe. How much better to
prevent fire than 20 extinguish con-
Migration!
The extension Of human life beyond
what Is erroneoualy believed TO be the
allotted span IS no new thing by any
means for IL has occupied the atten-
5 ton OF advanced thinkers through ali
( time. Going backward one may dnd
S records OF such attempts that reach
q far into the history that antedates
o tho Christian era. The chief fea-
r ture OF scientific experiment in the
s middle ages was the search for the
l. philosophers stone and the elixir OF
h life, the former being the idea that
J. would transmute baser metals into
IT gold and the latter the medicine that
% would prolong life indefinitely. The old
D. Rosicrucians were for time believed
" to be I'm possession Of both. The IA
r nous old Parr OF history enjoyed dur
10 ing many years a reputation for having
De discovered the elixir. Ponce de Leon
D. spent a lifetime in his world quest for
Is the spring of life. and the thousands
r that have given up their lives to such
research are not numbered.
I'd Cold Reason the Secret.
x II is only OF later years that cold
y reason has been brought to bear upon
- the subject and in which really prao-
l. teal work has been done In other
ie times men believed such possibilities
e we're secrets that must be wrested from
nature BY magical means. Now a saner
r. view is apparent. and we are coming 10
e know thai the elixir OF life is not some
e. drug or medicine. such as Professor
y Koch attempted 10 promulgate az late
as twenty years ago. but the ordinary
d application Of the things that lie about
= us
% II has been objected that the posi-
) bility OF extended life is a dream. and
e that no such dream can come true. be-
cause natural conditions are hard and
y fast laws. but this is weak theorizing,
for the natural law that made the wire
J. less telegraph a possibility is no new
se law, but one that has existed since the
II beginning Of time. 1t was always there
and will be always there, Ages before
n the complete science OF mathematics
IS, was known the law that controls
a numbers was in existence. but 1t is
comparatively recently that we have
OF learned to apply It. II is not the in
spirational CD fash that reveals law
hit Of nature. but the slow development Of
on concentrated. intelligent effort and the
ou use of the things that lie ready to our
hand. whether these be lump OF coal
Of the substance that lies in the skin OF
is the cranberry and preserves It. or the
no law of nature that made the X ray a
fact
elf Down in washington the work is go
ch ing on. Men are devoting their energies
is to prevention rather than cure ana arg
he meeting with success. tuberculosis -
IS losing half its terrors. and typnoio -
nd Weakening its hold. II you would nxs
a. a hundred years. pay heed 10 PreVen-
"A ton remember that you exist oecarss
in AZ three things. air. water and food'
ev and while the first two may be sse-
-. porfant. the last is vital.