The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-26
BY DIR. FRITZ KAHN
Eminent European physician,
author and artist.)

author and artist
WHEN PAUL EHRLICH had in
vented Salvarsan, after 30 years of
experimenting, the patent was &C.
quired by I. q. Farben, largest Ger
man industrial concern. To give
start to the extensive and lucra-
tive business. covering the earth,
from commercial distribution of
magic bullets, q propaganda pam
phlet was written by a blond young
man who worked in the publicity
agency of I. G. Farben at Cologne.
His face was marked with sword
scars by which German students are
distinguished. He had never l. ard
OF 100 per cent Aryan or "a mas
ter race"
The blond man wrote little book,
designating Enrich as genuine
representative Of German science,
endowed with genuinely German"
genius, inspired by the unselfishness
of genuinely German" idealism. He
deplored the fact that this great
man, having died in unhappy cir
cumstances, could not harvest the
fruits of his genius.
But-this blond young man har-
vested these for himself. He had
signed contract whereby his eulogy
of Ehrlich, the Jewish professor,
nettd him over SIS, 900.
He moved to southern Germany
became editor of a publishing con-
Germ, which soon brought out work
In five volumes, on which its author
also Jewish-had labored 20 years.
The blond man wrote prospectus
on this work.. This was in 1880. He
was still unaware of "Aryans" and
the master race.
SOME WONDERS OF
THE HUMAN BODY
This work, greatly abbreviated
English version of which was pub
]ished this year by Alfred A. Knopf
as Man in Structure and Func-
ton, describes the wonders of the
human body. Some of its countless
interesting facts and discoveries
are
In the ascending scale of things,
the body is between the smallest
and the largest entity: the atom and
the star. If we filled the space OF
the human body with atoms, 1t
would take as many atoms as it
would take human bodies to fill the
space occupied by the sun. The fig
ufe giving this number Is a 10 to
the 18th power.
The atom is the body's smallest
component; its smallest living COM
ponent is the CELL Much larger than
the atom, the cell is minute - you
have 100000, 100000 cells. What
does this imply? If the body dis
charged one atom every minute, it
would take 80 times 10000 years to
empty it. If it began when Christ
was born, one joint Of finger would
be emptied by now.
Two thirds of these cells swim
in the blood, pumped through the
body by the heart at six quarts per-
minute. If this pump, no larger
than fist, were installed in the
basement of the Empire State build
ing, highest in the world, it would
in the course of the TO years al
lotted to man, supply this edifice
above its 50th story.
There are no noble and ignoble
races. Each race Is the product
of its milieu and ideally adapted to
1t. II blond children are taken
from northern countries to Sicily,
they begin to get darker, and after
three generations a distinct change
in type shows. Europeans living in
China slowly alter to the Mongolia
type.
The so-called "Aryan" race is an
invention. The word is linguistic
There can be no Aryan individual
any more than there can be blond
grammar or blackhaired verbs
The form of the skull Is no indica-
ton of race, but the result of habits
of life. One of twins, may be de-
yeloped into ''hunnic" round-head,
the other into an "Aryan" long
head. Living in mountainous coun-
tries tends to make the skull round,
as in Alpine races; habitual horse
back riding develops round-headed
peoples.
If the civilized nations would
devote one-tenth of the money and
labor they have been spending on
the construction Of tools intended
for the destruction Of human life to
problems concerning its preservation
and prolongation, ways and means
would be found within a few dec
AIDES to increase the span Of life
to 120 years - in accordance with
the biblical promise.
A BOOK NOT SUITABLE
FOR HITLER'S GERMANY
Getting back to my book, now
titled MAN in Structure and Func-
tion." This work, whose author says
it would be better to turn cannons
into butter than to turn butter into
cannons, was of course not suitable
COR Hitler's Germany, and thus it
came to pass that THE Life of
Man" had now been replaced by the
new title Man and His Life. The
name of the author formerly printed
on the title page, name which had
an Enthusiastically Jewish ring, had
been replaced by the name of-that
blond young man with the Teu-
tonic scar on his right cheekl
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