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North Is Healthiest.

Most statements and alleged Of
ficial statistics of the remarkable
freedom from illness and great ages
attained by the native Inhabitants
of famous health climates are little
better than fairytales. Very few
will stand the acid test Of an actual
health survey. We may gush over
and sigh for the warm winds and
gentle skies of the Sunny South as
much as we please. but the solid I'M
shakable fact remains that the high
est average length Of life. and lowest
death rate and disease rates are
attained in the cold, cloudy. rain
swept North. whether in this
country or in Europe.
For instance, Sweden's average
length of life longevity is fifty
three years, as against SPANS thirty.
eight.
Wild and subtropical climes may
be comforting, and even life.pro-
longing for the invalid and the
elderly, but youth and vigor flour
ish best in the cool, green temper
ate zone, the land of the pasture,
the pine and the wheat.field.
Contrary to popular impression,
the first requisite of a healthful
climate is that it should be cheer.
fully changeable; not too violently
or too frequently, but pretty fairly
variable. No need to go the ex-
treme Of Mark Twain's classic jibe
at New England. that it had no
real climate, only samples. Yet who
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they make their harvest of both con-
ditions.
The opposite type is easy to de-
scribe. He is the man who is fond
Of declaring that the world owes
him a living He is a parasite on
society, not even as useful as the
worm, for the worm at least per-
forms necessary function. He is
wrong. 1t is not the world which
owes him anything; on the con-
trary, he is indebted to human So
ciety for the price of his existence.
II he labors at all, it is for four
hours a day in good times because
work is at a premium Of price, and
for four hours a day in bad times
because industry can supply no
longer hours.
or course, there is an intermedi-
ate type who does not save, not
because he lacks the inclination,
but because he has not got the
chance. Hard cases of this char
acter are far more common than
Is supposed. In the first place,
there is the man whose health will
not allow him to work at full
pressure. Next there is the man
who has a widowed mother to
support or younger brothers and
sisters to keep and educate. This
is the commonest instance. This
mans savings go not to create the
capital which will make him rich,
but to the help of others. None
the less, fhe does the state as great
a service in the example of self
abnegation and self.sacrifice which
he gives to the world.
But We must return to the first
class-the maker of money and
material wealth who reverses the
process practiced by the waster.
While a boom is on he will work
double time to make all he can.
for during this period Of initiation
money Is easy to get. Out of this
abundance he will put his money
by. He can do this in two ways
either by investment or by the
actual saving Of cash.
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Extremes Unhealthy.

It II A. big . mixture Of puzziing
contradictions as the Frenchman's
impression of old-time American
punch: "A leetle whisky 20 mex
heem strong. q leetle waterre to
mex heem wiki, a leetle lemon to
mex heem sour, aleetie sugar to
mex heem sweet" Then you say,
Here's to you'-an' you dreenks
heem you'selfg'
AZ for that will-o.the-wisp which
we read of in books, in medical
Journals and in tourist literature.
"a mild and equable climate" there
amt sech q animile and It wouldn't
be healthy II We could find It.
The tropics run to extremes of
heat and Of dryness Just as north
ern climes run to cold and wet
ness; and the sub-tropical regions
between have striking and most un.
comfortable contrasts between day
and night. Their storms and alter.
atoms Of heat and moisture. though
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'By ANATOLE FRANCE
French Immortal WHO Recently Dedicated His Statue Pa)
M Fitting That We Make No Mistake About the Symbol for This 0c
casin-M Ideas Not Men, That We Wish to Perpeuate in Marble
in Bronchitis is why Warriors Especially Have Known This
Glorious Conservation. ,

Copyright 1879. BY the Living Ass Co
A RE we acting wisely in en-
~ croaching today upon the
preroSatives OF posterity?
It 10 not for me to Judge. for the
wisdom of an action does not de-
pend on men. but on circum-
stances. Let us only say. to soothe
the critics, that not being assured
of the favor OF posterity. We have
deemed Il prudent to immortalize
our own admiration. And so. this
gesture Of conceit becomes an evil
dence of humility.
You have thought that to give
Anatole France the just homage
due to him. there was no one
among our contemporaries except
Anatols France himself. You
could not have imagined q more
adroit artifice to hear sincere
words about this man. Sincerity
is, In fact Q natural state Of our
mind, and we would yield much
oftener to this inclination, IL our
moralists had not made q virtue
Of 1t. Civil laws and religious laws
have willed 1t that the lie be a
social necessity: but this lie
weighs on US when-as in my case
today-we find ourselves in front
OF ourselves. The priests. who are
subtle folk, know that confession
La not an affiiction. but a pleas.
ure. And this IL why. on the
brink Of Immortality. I am going
to bare my soul. like the Abbesse
de Jouarre Of my good master
Renan, who. at the gates Of death
was able to cast off her modesty.
The pedestal of this statue bears
the inscription. ITO the Philosopher
Anatole France" thank you for
this title. shall not dare say that
1t IL UNDERSIGNED. since the late
Victor Cousin-whose work has
followed him to the tomb-dared, of
old. apply II to himself. But I am,
let us admit. a philosopher who
knew how to content himself with
the good things Of this world. The
barrel of Diogenes would have
seemed to me not only an inhospita-
BILE abode. but also one hardly
propitious to the subtle weaving of
ideas. did not, like this Cynic.
have the indecency to despise
honors; my rank in the legion Of
honor. and my place in the learned
company will bring It about, that
the day when one Of the 1000 gods
In whom I believe shall be pleased
to call me to himself, there will
resound over my coffin a tender
speech Of academic regrets and the
martial noise of soldiers with
pompous and useless iron. This mar
tial noise. however. will not dis.
please my bellicose nature. These
words should not make you smile,
gentlemen. The psychologists, who.
like my honored colleague Paul
Bourget. have pushed the study Of
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Rocking Chair with both Hands and
trying to get the real Bostonian
sound Of "A" as in Lard.
Her efforts were not in Vain.
for one Day when the Club Meeting
broke up, with the Lady President
throwing Fits and Copper guard
ing the Ballot Box, the principal
Insurgent was mentioned In the
Public Prints as a Popular Society
Matron and Leader in the New
Movement Among Women. They
had to call her that or the Story
OF her shooting the Ink-Stand at
the Recording Secretary would not
have been worth playing up on the
First Page.
tt was proud Morning for Gordon
and Ethel when they saw all the
Pictures and learned that they were
the immediate descendants OF the
Millionaire Promoter and the Popu-
lar Society Matron.
Gordon found himself endowed
with Social Status which enabled
him. at the age of twenty.three, to
gain admission to an exclusive Club
of 5000 members. the object OF which
was to serve a accent table d'hote
every noon to as many as were
willing to take a Chance.
Therefore, when he was yanked
out Of his 4-cylinder car and stood
up before the Magistrate, charged
with smearing up the Boulevard
with the Working Classes, the whole
Reading Public was thrilled to hear
OF what had happened to a Well.
known Clubman whose Father was
a Millionaire Promoter and whose
Mother was Popular Society
Matron.
BY this time Ethel was merely a
Relative.
She had not come across in any
Particular. As a matter Of Fact,
she was not pulling down any Rib
bons at Beauty Shows, and she toed
in when she walked.
However, she was not discouraged.
She eloped with a Chauffeur en-
ployed in an Scar Garage and next
Day she was a Beautiful ~Heiress
whose Brother was Well-Known
Man about Town, the Mother being
very prominent in Club Work and
remembered as the Wife Of the
Millionaire Promoter.
After all this came out, Father
still had between $1,000 and $4,000
and the whole Family including the
Chauffeur, sat down to Prunes
every Morning.
But they were very Happy, for
they were recognized in almost every
Cafe, and their Relatives IN the East
were sending Christmas Cards.
MORAL: Some achieve Great
ness and others haze IL Rubbed in.
Copyright, the Bell Syndicate,
Inc, 1929
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Here is graphic description OF
tho great transatlantic tDireless
station IN North Wales sent from
CarnarUon bu the special corre-
spondent of the London Daily Mail.
High up among the bare, wind
swept Welsh hills found the voice
which can speak to the whole world
at once.
1t is in the great transatlantic
wireless station at Cefn Du, a few
miles from Carnarvon, in north
Wales, and on the foothills of Snow
don.
Inside a brick building at the foot
of several great steel aerial rf,asts,
400 feet high, I saw the strangely
fascinating device which can send
wireless signals to the other side of
the world in one-sixteenth Of a Sec
ond, and in the time taken to strike
a match can completely surround the
earth with an envelope of electric
waves.
Picture a luminous wall of large
bottles Of thin glass glowing with a
subdued light-a curiously ghostly
radiance, steady and unwinking!
Such is the wonder.voice Of Car
narvon.
There are fifty-six Of these bottles.
each nearly the size and shape of q
Rugby football, with . slight bulb
on each end, and they are fixed in
four long rows in . large steel frame
some fifteen feet long and ten feet
high.
In a complicated tangle Of glass
tubes and white porcelain insulators
and wire covered with emerald green
and orange non-conductive fabric
and Of pink India-rubber air tubes,
these magic phials glow. and 20.
quietly glowing, can whisper at the
same moment to Persia and Tas.
mania, to Alaska and Picking.
These forty-six glass bottles OF
light are the thermionic valves which
cause the electric oscillation neces-
sary to radiate wireless wave across
the earth. They take the place of
the roaring blue spark OF the older
day, and when they speak across
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Variety a Source.

Variety Is the very source Of life
In climate as in everything else,
and we years ago fou1i II absolutely
necessary for health and recovery
to make at least two, and, better,
four. changes Of temperature in our
great hospitals every day, and a diff.
ference Of 10 degrees between day
and night in the wards.
So that II we find ourselves
shivering a little. or even sitting
In q gentle draft. we needn't be
afraid that we are risking our
precious health. The stimulus will
do us good instead of harm, and
we probably work best when we
are just on the edge Of feeling
slightly chilly.
This has actually been tested
out In numerous factories, with
the result that the force. instead
Of turning out most work in
bright. stili, sunny weather. made
their best output on wet. stormy,
windy days.
1t is not a mere coincidence that
the greatest density of population
and the capitals OF most of the
great world empires run right
around the world in q belt scarcely
more than s degrees, or 400
miles wide in the Roaring For
ties" where the trade winds blow
and the gray rain beats and the
snow lies white every winter.
Get out into this wonderful eli
mate Of ours as much as you pos
sibly can during the day and let
it freely into your bedroom at
night, for it is the finest health
climate in the world. The only
way 1t can do US harm, even in
winter. is by driving us indoors
too much. Our winter diseases
are not due to exposure or bliz.
gard or sleet, but to overcrowding
and hot houses, catching Of colds,
consumption and pneumonia germs.
(Other articles by DR.. Woods
Hutchinson will follow.)
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less frequent. are even more violent
than those Of the colder North.
Camping in the deserts and noun
tains Of our great Southwest one
broils and blisters In the daytime
and almost freezes to death at night
unless one carries plenty of blankets.
The ideal or moist climate has
never yet been found; on this side
Of the Jordan but few health re-
sorts are really fit to live In moro
than six months out Of the year.
People flee from the raw, damp,
piercing, cold Of New England to
the drA warm sunny mesas of
Colorado. Arizona, or New Mexico.
to get rid Of their catarrh or bron.
chitis-and get a new and worse
kind from the parching. seaving
dryness. the dust storms of the
alkali.
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the world show no signs of their
colossal power. but glow as gently
and as evenly as ever.
Behind these rows of fat glass
bottles, which SEEM like the glow
ing retorts Of some strange chemi.
cal experiments. a coil Of thick in
sulated wire waves round a cir
cular wooden frame which stands
on porcelain pillars. This Is the
aerial inductance," and on another
frame, which completely surrounds
the first but is entirely separated
from 1t, is a coil Of similar wire in
red insulation. This Is connected
to the valve and the impulse which
sends a film of energy about the
whole earth in a moment of time
travels from the radiant bottles
to the aerial across a bridge Of air.
The room was luminous with the
soft light Of the valve, and there
Is scarcely a sound save for the
even drone Of the dynamos operat-
ing the set. This was a magician's
chamber Of 121. where by pressing
a tiny key one might circle the
globe In q moment and send COM
mands to all the four corners of
the earth at once.
This valve transmitter IL the
largest in the world and has only
been completed in the last few
months" said an official of the
Marconi Company, who was show.
ing me the wonders of Carnarvon.
The great value Of this transmit
ter is-that It is capable of girdling
the earth with the same power
which hitherto has been necessary
to send messages to the United
States.
Tho new apparatus is not yet
finally installed. but will be ready
for the commercial service in q
few weeks"
How many men are required to
take charge Of this apparatus for
sending q message around the
world7" asked him.
"One," he replied. And he would
have comparatively little to do. He
would merely have to keep an eye
on the working OF the set. which
would be operated by automatic
transmission from our trans-Atlan-
tic receiving station at Towyn.
some forty.fivs miles away"
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vETE have an Unborn banker
wv ing for a warm climate.
Partly because man was
Matched In the steaming tropics.
partly because we just love to be
warm and hate to be cold.
A few cheerful liars declare they
love cold baths. but everybody lux.
uriates and SINNERS with delight in
a steaming hot tub.
Every one of US signs for the
kindly South and looks forward
eagerly to the day when we can
sock a gentler sky and go to Cali
fornia or Florida to live. Yet still
we stick around in our hundreds
of millions in the rain-swept, frost
bitten, fog-gloomed North.
No belief is more common than
that we would be better off II we
could only move to "a healthier
climate" And we will spend our
pitiful last dollar chasing the rain.
bow of recovery through one So
called health resort after another.
While all the time the greatest
health resort in the world h the
chilly. fog-plagued capital OF Old
King Lud on the Thames, and the
second Is the Little Village Of
Gotham on the Hudson.
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Insects and History.

These little buzzing pests have
time and again turned a fertile
teeming valley Of cities and tenn
pies into an uninhabited swamp.
And the classic Decline Of Greece
and the Fall of Rome were probably
due far more to the bills Of these
tiny blood-suckers than to the spears
of the ,Barbarians and the Goths.
Climate. in fact. is the sun or
balance of all these widely differ
ing factors. 1t Is the sun of all the
non.personal influences Of his en-
vironment which act upon man,
which Is q dickens Of a definition
IL you ask me and doesn't help us
much.
Not only so, but even after we
have defined climate we wouldn't
know how to construct an ideal
one, even IL We could make 1t to
order.
Because 1t needs to be hot some
times and cold sometimes. now
pouring wet, now dry as q bone,
calm as a mill pond one day, blow
ing great guns the next. Any one
kind kept up too long bores us to
death and injyres our health as
we'll. In Southern California or
North Africa you get sick and tired
of the everlasting sunshine and
fairly long for q nice, dark. cloudy
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New York Healthy.

Both can show more health to
the square yard than any noun
tain side or desert plateau, or vale
Of Eden, or boosted mineral
springs, or tropic surf, or sunny
island Of Southern seas!
What is a healthy climate and
why?
The first and most humiliating
discovery is that we don't know
what we mean by climate"
1t is neither heat as such nor
cold as such. because we may have
hot, dry climate with cool
nights, like that Of the plateaus
of Arizona, which is delightful and
positively bracing, or very cold,
dry climate like winter in our own
and in the Canadian Northwest,
which is celebrating and enjoy
able at 40 degrees below zero. Nor
Is It moisture or dryness alone or
chiefly, nor cloud or sunshine,
storm or calm, or altitude or cleo
trio tension.
The soil-its porousness for
drainage, its richness for food
bearing, its formation in hills, val
leys, plains. mountains-cut a most
important figure. Today not only
temperature, moisture and move
ments Of the air count, but even
the insects that fly in it have to be
reckoned in the total makeup Of
Ultimate.
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BY LORD BEAvERBROOK,

Special Correspondence Universal Service
r ONDON, jan 21.-Saving is a
habit which very few men ac-
quire. These are the rulers
Of the land, and the only men who
dispute with them are those whose
ancestors have saved for them.
have often tried TO estimate
what the proportion is between
those who save and those who 90
hot, and what in each case the mo-
tive for putting money by may be.
1t is my calculation that only oneman
in five saves. And even from that
figure one must deduct the numbers
of those who save not for the pur-
pose Of reinvestment or increasing
their capital, but as a matter Of pre-
caution or fear. This latter class
breads illness, misfortune, or pre-
mature death. 1t puts the limit Of
safety against these evils at a GER
tain sum, and, when that amount
is attained ceases to strive. This is
not really that progressive saving
which makes capital.
The small percentage Of men who
save with the intention Of using
their capital productivity soon ac-
quire certain definite and common
habits which spring from the origi-
nal saving tendency and motive.
Time Is money to them, and they
save one as religiously as the other.
They work continually. with no
thought of overtime. As long as
there remains anything to be done
they are ready to do it. They are
like the scholar who will not leave
a lesson until he has II word perfect.
They take their example from the
farmer in harvest time who goes on
bringing in the crops until the light
fails-and begins again as soon as
the sun rises.
In the good times OF commerce
they work hard, and in the bad times
they work harder. They realize the
rotation by which period Of boom
succeeds a period or depression, and
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the human heart TO its extreme
limits. have announced this latest
truth. that the face IL the mirror
Of our personality. Now, the dis.
position of Mars shows itself a.
clearly in the goatee which adorns
my chin as It does in the Gallo
moustache Of Georges Clemenceau.
SYMBOLS MEANING.
1t 10 fitting that we make no mis-
take about the symbol Of this occa-
sion. This epithet Of philosopher
proves that you have wished to
honor. less the good artisan of let
tiers than the thinker who has an
swered your desires. For-let VI
not fool ourselves about the mag
nanimity Of our sentiments! We
raise statues only to our own en-
thusiasms. 1t IL not the men. but
the ideas. that We wish to perpet-
uate in marble or in bronze. This IL
why warriors. especially. have
know this glorious conservation. It
is the writer's who have made the
splendor Of the century Of Louis
XIV, and yet you see nothing in
the Versailles of the King but the
statues OF the great captains. II.
instead of being clothed with the
imperial purple, Marcus Aurelius
had been a vegetable vendor who
reflected on the vanity Of the
world while his donkey was slowly
pacing, he would certainly have
been just as sublime. in our judg-
ment; but Rome would not have
placed him, as it did. at the top Of
the steps Of the capitol. 1t is the
fits Of anti-religious fever which
have made SO many Voltaires spring
up in the public gardens of Paris.
The sculptors, to tell the truth,
are not displeased with this ten
dency; for in sculpture, as in politics.
It is easier to strike attitudes
martial or proudly majestic, than to
express an theology. Shall recall,
once more. gentlemen, the ashes Of
Emile lola carried to the Pantheon,
not as testimony Of supreme graft
tude to the author Of SO many ad-
mirable works. but in expression Of
the grateful homage of ambitious
politicians to the pamphleteer Gust
ly inspired, for that matter) who had
allowed them to blossom out? And
in order that there be no doubt
on this point. and that it be well
established that the ceremony was
not held for the exaltation OF the
writer, care was taken not to appeal
TO intellectual competency: the min.
lister OF public institution was asked
to make the speech for the occasion.
When I feel that a Like fate might
have befallen this monument. my
gratitude to you is redoubled that
you have entrusted to me the care
Of my own panegyric. I have thus
the certainty that while this pane
gyric may offend my modesty, It
will not, at least, outrage our beauti-
full French language.
Yes, gentlemen, in making allusion
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His Wife Missing
HE Offers Little
Brood to Charity
NEW YORK, Jan. FL.

NEW YORK, Jan. FL.
MICHAEL M'KARIN, Of No.
So East One Hundred and
Eighteenth street, in Harlem
Court yesterday asked that his
children, Michael, eight: John,
seven, and Mary, foue, be sent
10 the Society for tho Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Children.
McKarin said his wife, Anna,
had been missing since Friday.
He added that the children's
condition was due TO her neg
lect, and as he had to earn
living he could not care for
them. ....
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can doubt that this stern. fickle,
strenuous climate. changing any
time your back is turned. has work.
ed powerfully in developing the
staunch. aggressive. resourceful
genius Of the New Highlander. the
literary. educational and scientific
backbone of our commonwealth?