Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-13
Life, Like a Clock, May stop, Then start
Again.

Life, Like Clock, May stop, Then start
Again.
Most persons forget that life is too
short for mean anxieties. Life, IN
deed, is an eternal war with woe.
The mystery Of life itself, solved
anew as 1t is every day, still re-
mains a puzzle for tomorrow.
DIR. Alexis Carre1, the Rockefeller
Institute sayant winner of the Nopel
prize for medical research, dlscoN
cred a method whereby the IRE OF
bone. muscle, cartilage and other
human flesh could be maintained
alive in an almost qulescenl lol III
for months and months. Ills re-
searches have thus made II feaslbie
Ia keen missing tissues in frozen
state ready for the surgeon use III
al we'll equipped hospitals.
Comes now Prof. Becquerel, OF inc
University of Paris, with equally
ytluable discoveries about the sas-
nension of life. He FORCES a NUMBER
of new links in the great chain OF
the strange thing known to man as
life. -.
Snace is understood by science to
he that which Is outside OF thought
and life, occupied by things ana SUD
stances There Is no such tnins 90
emptiness. There cannot POSSIBLY De
on absolute vacuum or VOID. space
is merely the length, breadth and
t,iei,ness of bodies. mineral and nv
ing.
The difference between time ana
snace is immense. Space is outside
If Won. Time IL inside of YOU. Ihere
Is space whether there are living
creatures or not because as long as
Tho world exists and as long as there
Is matter there must be space
Uibernation VS.. s'LsteDts Life.
Not so with time. Time is merely
life. The ebb and flow OF the vital
spirit makes what thought calls past
present or future. NO living peihs,
no earthling, no man can separate
himself from time and remain alive.
The Supreme Being is separated from
time, but you are not.
The problem of discovering some
method whereby any human creature
NAV he made a Rip Van Wrinkle or
the Connecticut Yankee at King Ar
| thur's court depends upon the POSI-
| hilitv of suspending your lie and
| freeing YOU from the action called
| time then at pleasure to bring you
| back to life and time again.
| Dir Alexis Carrel says his tissue
cells, thus frozen into inactivity, have
| 'latent llfe.n Germs, bacteria, AMI
malcula. seeds of plants, crustacean
eggs and various tiny creatures pos
| sess this power. The dried spores q
| mo,,lds and seeds may be mummified
| In this way for years and years be-
fore Slife is again resumed where II
| was let off.
Information by snakes, reptiles
| woodchucks, bears and similar brute
inhabitants of this sphere is not the
same as latent" or suspended life
but it is intermediate between 1t ane
sleep.
Life must be actually stopped, MOI
slowed lid. to be wholly lifted from
the realms of time. Sleep, hiberna
ton, drying, not TO mention the otnel
extreme, death, cannot be regarded
as a suspension of life. Even drlec
seed many years old may nave III
| sluggish physiological functions
| Gases and water serve the life pur'
pose here.
The Three Required Conditions.
Prof. Becquerel undertook in his
| laboratory to use more powerful
| methods than is possible in nature
He used a vacuum almost perfect
strong chemicals to remove all mois
| ture, III gases anu an neat
| Peas. beans, buclxwheat, wheat
| grains and castor beans were exposed
to these strong chemicals and all crit
icism was disarmed by freezing then
| with liquid air and liquid hydrogen II
| as perfect a vacuum as man can al
present make,
There are three conditions to be full.
| filed to obtain real suspension of life
to wit, a maximum dryness, the mos
| perfect vacuum and an absolute cold
The only scientist of this advanced
time who has ever possessed all thre'
of these at the same time is the grea
Prof. Kammerlingh Onones, of Ley
den.
DR.. Becquerel went tT,ahis labora tor.
and with such assistance he place'
dried grains of wheaG mustard
moulds and microbes for three week
and three days in little vacuum tube
at temperatures of $50 degrees bioS
zero.
| Al last complete proof of the sus