The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1920-07-26
MAKING PUPPIES our OF poGs.

/ Long before Ponce de Leon sought the fountain q
eternal youth IN the everglades Of Florida men believe
In the existence Of such aspiring of eternal fe bidder
in the mysterious places Of the EARTH and chemist
sought to compound il in the secret chambers Of tho
forbidden laboratories The elixir vtate was sough
BY achemists through centuries and not few adept
at the black tried go into partnership with ault
horny in its compromising and use They assumed thai
If such wine 81 life were coneocable the devil knew
how to do it. since the majority Of people were working
for him and he naturally would be glad to proong their
activities There must have been flaw in that reason
ing, however because Of Them in spite of the local
reputation they acquired the contrary ever succeeded
In establishing such full partnership with the two.
horned to produce for commercial use the de-
sired elixir Real chemists such as did not seek luci-
ferian aid, had theory that there was universal
solvent which would reduce every substance to the fun
domenta principles the number Of which, Of course they
did not know and then they hoped to be able to
bne those principles to make whatever hechose whether
elixir Of perpetual youth something that would
arrest decay leaving the youth always young and the
aged always aged gold 1t Is testimony to the greed
Of gold being stronger in human nature than the love
philosophers sought the combination which would
convert other metals into gold rather than the which
would confer length Of years Perhaps they believed
in short life and merry one and knew nothing SO
likely to make it merry as the possession Of unlimited
gold
But, according to modern scientists the seekers after
universal solvent, regardless Of the tricks they
pected play with it when discovered the right
track Science now says that everything is composed
itself in multitude Of ways to make the multifarous
things we call matter. Some scientists go SO far as
to believe that when they discover show to do it.
they will be able to create life by manipulation Of the
unit The rest Of may safely agree with them. How
ever, modern science has revived the idea Of fxation
Of youth by supplcmcnting and rearranging the work
Of nature Prof Eugen Stomach Of Vienna goes farther
youthful vgor and playfuness He says he makes pup
pies out Of aged dogs, playful that they engage in
puppy sport with their offspring II he could make
like transformation with the parents Of of our
boys it would be fine thing for the boys not for
the parents. Some years ago the whole world was
excited about the possibility Of renewal Of youth and
perpetual life, war, pestience and the elements ex
ceptcd by the experiments Of Brown-Sequard, Enf
lsh physician His failure to achieve practical WORKING
results has not discouraged scientists Experiments b.
the thousands have been made and claims made public
without actual achievement, until have this Ven
ma physical researcher who says that by the Of sub
sttute glands and the Xray, he is able not only to
arrest decay but restore youthful vigor and feeling
not only to give new vigor but to renew the playful
spirit Of youth in those already well advanced towards
seniliy Last year Serge Vorcnof, surgeon Of the
French Academy of Paris but probably Russian made
the same claim and Prof Stomach disputes priority with
him. alleging that he first made public the success Of
experiments in 1918 How we are going to feed the /
teeming millions if death is to stop and births to con-
tnue is problem other scientists will have to tack,e
st. Louis obe-Democrat.