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FRIDAY, JANUARY, 10th. 1118
SHALL WE BE OLD AT TWENTY ?
That the interval between youth and are is shortening, is the some
what startling statement made in "Good Health" (Battle Creek, Mich ),
presumably by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, the editor, remarks the Literary Digest in
a recent issue. This means that the peculiarities of old age are now showing
;hcmRelves earlier, owing, he thinks, to degenerative forces that must destroy
the race if not controlled. The proportion of individuals who now reach
a great age. he says, is much smaller than it used to be, despite our improve
ments in sanitation and preventive medicine. We are keeping more child
len alive by these expellent**, but the real measure of the race’s vigor. Dr.
Kellogg asserts, is at the other end of man's life; and hero he finds our
present generation lamentably deficient. He is afraid that old age is
creeping down to meet youth, so that we shall ultimately be old at twenty.
We read:
"When, thirty years ago, the writer raised the question, ‘Are we
u dying race?’ a strong protest arose from every part of the country
against the mere suggestion of such a preposterous idea as that a race de
generation and extinction were possibilities.
"Within the last twenty years, however, there has been accumulating
such a vast amount of evidence of racial deterioration, especially in civilised
tands, that at the present time no student of anthropology or eugenics wilt
hesitate to admit that there are present in every civilised community degener
ative influences which are dally Increasing in force, and which, if not radic
als* controlled, must in time., destroy the race.
"One of the decided evidences of race degeneracy, to which the writer
has for nearly forty years been directing attention. Is the marked failing off
in the proportion of centenarians to the rest of the population.
"The real measure of the physical vigor of a race is not the age at
which the average man dies, but the proportion of individuals who attain to
great age. Cholera, yellow-fever epidemics, and other plagues in fomer
times weeded out the weaklings, drunkards, debauchees, and other classes of
the unfit. By keeping these alive through quarantine and public sanitation,
'he average longevity Is increased, while both the actual number as well as
the proportion of centenarians have been diminishing. We have been making
ourselves believe that the tree was flourishing because of the great number
of young sprouts about the bottom, while the trunk was dying at the top.
"Statistics of all highly civilised countries show a steady falling off in
tno number of centenarians. Whe have in this country at the present time
less than 4,000 centenarians or one in 2S.000 of our hundred million. Bul
garia has 3,000 centenarians In a population of 3.000,000, or one in every 1,000
—twenty-five times as many in proportion. Older civilisations are worse off
than we are. In France, the proportion of centenarians is one in 130,000 of
the population; In England, one in 200,000; and In Germany one in 700^000.
In these countries decay has extended so far down the trunk that it has near
ly reached the level of the youngshoots”
ABOUT PLATNUM
Its qualities and uses long unknown to the world in general, platinum
l.as become the most valuable of all metals, at the present time being worth
ohout five times as much as gold. The earliest known employment of plot*
inuin was that made by the ancient tribes that inhabited the Esmeraldas
province of Ecuador South America, where archaeologists have unearthed1
trinkets and ornaments of the metal which these people devised and which are!
on exhibition in New York City.
Though we associate platinum with the Russian Urals, where rich de- j
posits have been found, the first modern discovery of the metal was made In!
what is now Colombia. South America. This was about the middle of the'
vfghtcenth century. The metal was reported under the named of “Platino
de Pinto**, which, transacted, means “little silver of the Pinto River.*’ It
was found mixed with gold in the sands of river bottoms, and not held In any!
particular esteem by the natives. Later on, it was principally employed in'
counterfeiting doubloons the metal giving the necessary weight to the coins,
which we»v gilded to deceive the eye.
After the discovery of platinum In the Urals of Russia, in the first
quarter of the nineteenth century it was used for the coinage oi rubles, being
considered of lesa v. Ire than silver V »»> these piatnum ruble* and the false
Spanish doubloons are row exceedin''.’ r. »•* and wo th five times their weight!
in gold’ ■*•-**• — - _ _
Platinum has many uses, but mainly in chemical, electrical, and dental
work. Jewelers, of course, are employing it more and more in their art.
Doctor George F. Funs estimates that there are four million ounces of plat
inum now serving various purposes in the world. According to Krunx, chem
ical and dental professions have used about one million ounces each, while
catalysing purposes have required altout four hundred thousand, ounces.
Now. however, platinum has been requisitioned by the government for war
The rich deposits of platinum now lotown are in the Ural Mountains,
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