Normal Life Span
140, Says Voronoff
Gland Specialist Outlines
a Plan for Longevity.
Calcutta.—"The natural spnn of
life Is 140 years, and 1 hnve every
hope that one day we may prolong
It to this period,” declared Dr. Serge
VoronofT, the fumous exponent of
rejuvenation here.
"Everybody who dies between the
ages of seventy and ninety Is a
person who Is ‘killed’," Doctor Vor
onoflf added. ‘‘The problem is to
find out how not to be so ‘killed.’
"Between sixty and seventy Is a
critical period. Death Is awaiting
us. Those who wish to survive In
the unequal struggle have but one
means of gaining their end—to re
place their worn-out glands with
young and active glands, which will
Impart a new Impulse to the cellH
«f all our organs, causing them to
create new young cells and thus re
juvenate the whole organism.”
His Methods Recognized.
Doctor VoronofT declared that the
most eminent experts now recog
nized the efficiency of his methods
and thousands of operations were
being performed In Europe, and also
In Japan. The only difficulty was
procuring an adequate supply of
animals for the purpose. The or
dinary monkey was not suitable, the
specimens of the genera required
being the gorilla, orangoutang,
chimpanzee or glbboon.
Together with his beautiful young
wife. Doctor VoronofT intends to go
to Java, where he will spend some
time conducting experiments on the
blood of the orang-outang. After
wards he will go to Indo-China to
Professor to Use Projectiles
to Go 150 Miles.
Roswell, N. M.—Rockets equipped
with automatic recording devices
will be shot Into the stratosphere to
a distance of from 40 to 150 miles
from the earth’s surface from an es
pecially constructed (10-foot tower
near here this spring In science's
latest attempt to penetrate the se
crets behind cosmic rays, light rays
and radio waves.
The experiments will be the cul
mination of months of work on the
part of Dr. R. H. Goddard, head of
the department of physics at Clarke
university, Worcester, Mass., who
expects they will yield data of great
value to science. One Immediate
beneficiary would bo radio broad
casting.
The tower Is rising In a shallow
valley 25 miles from ltoswell. In
the meantime Doctor Goddnrd Is
carrylug out preliminary experl-.
meats on a farm four miles from
here, aided by a staff of assistants.
The Guggenheim foundation Is
financing the unique tests. Roswell
was selected for the site of the ex
periments because of unique atmos
pheric and climatic conditions.
The type of rocket to be used Is
12 feet long and approximately 2
feet In diameter at its widest point.
It Is equipped with n parachute de
signed to be released at the highest
point of Its flight.
There Is no danger of the rocket
causing Injury, Doctor Goddnrd be
lieves, as he calculated It will re
turn to the earth almost vertically,
and Its flight will be under control
from the tower at all times. The
tower site Is 15 miles from the near
est settlement.
Advantages of the rocket ascen
sions over stratosphere balloon
flights lie in the fuct that balloons,
to rise beyond 14 miles, must be of
such great size and at the same
time such light weight that con
structlon dangerous to passengers
results, according to Doctor God
dard. He pointed to the fatal out
come of the 72,000 feet stratosphere
ascension of three Soviet Russians.
The date of the projected tests
will depend on the results of ground
conduct similar research on the gib
boon. .
Different Blood Types.
Recalling his early work, the doc
tor said that at first he presumed
that the blood of monkeys was of
one type Instead of the four types
present In the human being. Some
of the early experiments were not
very satisfactory, but after long re
search he found that the monkeys
had four types of blood also, corre
sponding to those types found in
humans.
He therefore altered his meth
ods to Include tests of the blood
both of the patient and of the ani
mal to make sure that the types of
blood corresponded. Then he graft
ed onto the human being the thy
roid, pituitary and sexual glands of
| the monkey.
The results, he claims, are “high
ly successful." The change observed
In the aging human being conld
only be described as “something
marvelous."
Paris Dogs Manicured
at Own Beauty Parlor
Paris.—A dog beauty parlor has
Just been opened In the French cap
ital.
While rnadame Is having her
beauty attended to upstairs, her pet
may ha vs his whiskers plucked,
teeth cleaned, nails manicured and
forelock curled. Turkish baths are
also a feature of the “Institute de
Reaute pour Chlens," or, If pressed
for time, a quick soap bath, fol
lowed by n shower and alcohol rub
will be given by attendants In white
uniforms.
Plans to Explore Space by Rockets
_
experiments now being conducted
here.
“There is a long period of testing
before any practical results are cer
tain," Doctor Goddard explained.
"We will probably spend several
months In the laboratory before
any test will be made.”
NECKWEAR VOGUE
lly CIIKKIK NICHOLAS
In the new spring style forecast
the accent Is emphatically on neck
wear. The outlook Is for more flat
tering crisp, soft, flulTy. lacy
starched and unstarched collars,
cuffs, bows and Jabots than eye
Potatoes Replace
Torpedoes on Sub
Amsterdam. — Potatatoes and
onions — not torpedoes — are
stowed In the tubes of Dutch
submarine K-18, now on a 23-000
mile trip from Holland to Sourn
bala, Java.
The trip will be the longest
ever made by a submarine, and
will take eight months.
When provisions were stored
aboard the 707-ton craft at Neiu
wedlep, Holland, It was found
that there wasn't much room.
The commander decided it was
better to leave two torpedoes at
home rather than bales of pota
toes and onions.
England to Hold Royal
Jubilee Celebrations
London.—Visitors to London this
year should time their holidays for
May or June, for In those months
not only Is the season at Its height,
but England will be gay v.lth royal
Jubilee celebrations.
May fi, the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of King George’s accession to
the throne, a chain of beacon fires
will Illuminate the length and
breadth of the country.
Because of the Jubilee celebra
tions In Mny, the first two courts
of the season will take place In
March, while the third and fourth
courts will be held as usual In June.
In June also will be the Derby and
Ascot race meetings; the Wimble
don lawn tennis championships; the
International horse show; the Aider
shot Tattoo and the Herndon air
pageant, which the king hopes to
attend In person this year.
’ In May there will be the naval
and military tournaments at Olym
pia ; the opening of the Itoyal acad
emy summer exhibition, and jubilee
celebrations In every district. Dur
lug both months there will be a
number of big charity halls.
Lots of Room Left for
Human Race on Earth
Eugene, Ore.—The earth Is a long
way from overpopulation yet, ac
cording to Dr. Warren D. Smith,
professor of geography and geology
at the University of Oregon.
Doctor Smith says thnt science is
now able to compute thnt the world
would support some 5,500,000,000
people, more than twice as many as
it now supports. The estimate of
2,024,280.000 is generally accepted
ns a fairly accurate total of the
present population. The five billion
figure Is possible, however, he says,
only with careful planning and de
velopment of resources.
Among other findings In Doctor
Smith’s recent survey are: That
birth control and birth selection are
Imperative If a high plane of civ
ilization Is to be maintained; that
the tropics are now the great goal
of the whites; and thnt brunette
whites will probnbly dominate the
earth In time.
Nearly an Egg a Day
Medford, Ore.—Lady May, a white
Leghorn hen owned by Mrs. It. E.
Carley of Medford, has laid 359 eggs
In 305 days, a record surpassed only
by a New Zealand Black Orping
ton, which has a record of 361 eggs
In 1930.
hns beheld for many a season. The
stunning collar which the smartly
hatted lady Is wearing is of fine eye
let embroidery. The chic flat
crowned hat with the primly rolled
brim Is umong the newest of the
new. Front Interest Is centered In
the black velvet bow. If you would
like to have the Joy of making your
own collar and cuff set as per the
attractive type shown below in the
picture, it Is easy to do so and at
the cost of but a few cents. All
you have to do Is to provide your
self with crepe tissue paper In any
desired pastel tint. Pale yellow
Is suggested, ns mnls color with
a navy frock is the last word In
chic. The crepe paper must be cut
In strips and twisted ready to cro
chet. The stitch Is very simple and
you will go speeding along with
your crochet hook ready to wear
your new finery after a few hours
Wrecked Freighter Pounded by Giant Rollers
CapL Duncan Milne, forty-one-year-old native of Cardiff, Wales, and skipper of tlie freighter »»enk«rry,
was swept to his death after seeing all 29 of his crew carried safely ashore in breeches buoys in Nova Scotia.
The ship foundered on tocks during a severe storm. Pictured above is the Kenkerry being pounded by the
giant rollers
SEEN--" HEARD
around the
National Capital
-r i a By CARTER FIELDfi=s
Washington. — Probability that
some compromise on the so-called
30-hour week bill, probably limiting
the hours of work In any industry
to 38 or 48 hours, but with perhaps
a few 8{>eclal exemptions, will be
enacted by the present congress Is
growing. Flat prediction that such
a compromise would be enacted Is
made privutely by half a dozen of
the more important figures In the
house, and by nn pqunl number of
Influential senators.
The Importance of this prediction
would be enormously enhanced If
the names of the senators and mem
bers of the house could be men
tioned, with their exact views. In
cidentally some of those making the
prediction said that they personally
opposed the Idea; they were merely
giving their opinion as to what
would happen, not what they want
ed.
Nor were these just personal con
versations. In each case the state
ments were mnde to a group of men
who came to Washington seeking to
find out what the prospect was—
men who wanted to adjust their sit
uations to the probabilities. They
did not come to argue for or against
the measure, though all of them, for
private reasons, happened to be op
posed to it.
The tremendous pressure for the
measure does not result primarily
from the fact that the American
Federation of Labor is strongly for
it Nor from the fact that virtually
every other labor group Is for It.
It comes from the evidences that
though business has picked up some
what unemployment has not dimin
ished by anything like the same ex
tent.
So, in short, the thought is a
“share ttie work” idea, ratiier thnn
a social betterment idea.
It is aimed at reducing unemploy
ment, not at bettering living condi
tions. In fact, there is some talk of
amending the proposal of the Fed
eration of Labor, as embodied in the
Connery bill, in a way that would
be very displeasing Indeed to labor,
and which labor, both organized and
unorganized, would oppose violently.
Just a Possibility
This is to change the Idea so that
Instead of reducing the number of
hours per week, but requiring—ns
the Connery bill does—that the
same amount of dollars be paid each
week for the shorter number of
hours that is now paid for the pres
ent work week, the bill would re
duce the number of hours with no
mention of what the rate of pay
should be. In short, leaving to em
ployers, and to the revision of NRA
codes which would follow, what the
wages for the shorter work wreek
would be.
This is not mentioned as a prob
ability. Only as a possibility. Ac
tually, it is highly improbable. The
measure will probably pass, if it
passes at all, with the requirement
that the same wages be continued
regardless of the cut In hours. And,
of course, the compromise, raising
the number of hours from the 30
proposed In the Connery bill to at
least 30, will soften this blow as
far ns employers are concerned.
But, as a matter of fact, econo
mists do not regard the question of
wnges here ns very important, ex
cept In so far as they apply to infla
tion. They reason that If the hours
are reduced, and the pay per hour
Increased, the result will be infla
tion just ns surely as by any pos
sible expedient proposed by the fol
lowers of Senator Elmer Thomas.
They reason that a wholesale ver
tical boost in wages, forced by law,
would result promptly and almost
mathematically in an increase in
prices, reducing the purchasing pow
er of the dollars earned by the
workers, lienee, the laborious argu
ments by the opponents of the 30
hour week, or any compromise of it,
that it would result in lowering the
standard of living in America, either
by a smaller number of dollars to
spend by each worker, if the pay is
maintained at the same hourly rate,
or by the smaller purchasing power
of the dollars if the wage rate per
week is maintained.
The reasoning that is expected to
put the compromise over is not con
cerned with this. It is concerned
with getting more people to work,
and cutting down the need for the
dole and for work relief.
Social Program
livery Indication now is that Pres
ident Roosevelt’s social program
old age pensions and unemployment
insurance—will go through in very
much the form proposed, despite the
loud cries of the Insurgents about a
government subsidy.
The Idea of taking Jill the money
for unemployment payments, and
old age pensions, out of the federal
treasury, is very appealing In some
directions. People wonhl like to
dodge the direct deductions from
their pay envelopes. Argument is
made that tills tax on pay rolls,
which. If both hills are counted,
runs gradually up to fi per cent.
I would heavily increase the cost of
| production.
Rut the great advantage that
President Roosevelt has had right
along, and gives every prospect of
continuing to hold — always ex
cepting World court, St. Lawrence
seaway, and the bonus—is that his
opponents cannot agree.
For example, the ten senators on
the appropriations committee who
a few days buck voted to substitute
the dole for work relief, with the
avowed purpose of saving the treas
ury two billion dollars, have maneu
vered themselves Into a ixmltion
where it will be rather difficult for
them to vote against the President
on the social security bills. Or at
least vote against him on the only
roll-call where the President's po
sition might otherwise have been
In jeopardy.
When the roll-call comes o» the
question of paying all the cost out
of the federal treasury —which will
be the big test vote—those ten sen
ators would be rather embarrassed
to vote to mnke the treasury carry
the load—after all their loud cries
in the appropriations committee
about the strnln on the federal
credit of spending nearly five bil
lion dollars on work relief.
Local Interest
Which is highly Interesting be
cause some of those ten senators
were not worried In the slightest
about the federal credit when they
voted against the President on that
bill in committee. They followed
Glass and Adams, who made that
issue. But some of them were just
voting on that excuse In the hope
of getting their states, and the coun
ties and cities back home, out of a
jam. They wanted a direct federal
gift to the unemployed as against
a work project, which contemplates
that the local governments shall
pay a considerable percentage of
the work relief money back to the
federal trensury, with interest.
Which Is very different, especially
If the credit of their states, or local
communities In their states which
need relief work badly, feel that
they have already strained their
credit to the breaking point.
But every senator who publicly
took the position that the flve-bil
lion-dollar bill was too great a
strain on federal credit has put his
vote on the social security bill in
pawn, ns far as the only real test
vote is concerned. For there Is ex
pected to be only one roll-call of
Importance on those bills which will
attempt to shift the entire financial
burden on to the federal trensury.
Some contend that the President
hns already taken one beating on
this social security legislation. Their
argument is that he wanted both
bills enacted prior to the adjourn
meat of the many legislatures
which are In session this winter.
He did express a hope for that. But
it was a hope, not a conviction. It
put the stigma for delay on anyone
holding up the procession, but the
President really never expected any
such quick action, and has ex
pressed no disappointment about It.
Civil Service
Real friends of civil service are
far more interested in an immedi
ate reform, which would require
only an executive order, than In
either the proposal of Senator
George W. Norris of Nebraska, or
Senator C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming.
What they would like to see is
elimination of the prohibition. Im
posed by an executive order, which
prevents any present employee of a
post office from tnklng the examina
tion for the postmastership. This
provision, which seems rather hard
to explain on any ground other than
pure spoils politics, strikes at the
heart of the whole civil service
Idea. It bars advancement to the
top in any particular office.
It Is this situation which plays
Into the hands of the Hurley fnctlon
in Massachusetts, preventing Post
master Hurley from taking an ex
amination—unless he should resign
in the meantime—for appointment
to the very Job be now holds!
This merely happens to be what
seems to many a ridiculous side of
the situation. For It might natural
ly be thought that the man who had
been postmnster for a period or
years, who had come up through
the rnnks Just ns if he had been
employed In some private business,
and who, according to the testimony
of business firms In the city of Bos
ton, had been giving satisfaction,
would and should stand a better
show of’passing first In nn examina
tion for his own Job than anyone
outside the office.
But actually the present law—for
that Is what an executive order
amounts to—not only prevents Post
master Hurley from competing in
an examination for the place he
now holds, but It prevents any oth
er employee of the Boston post of
fice from competing.
Favor Norris Plan
Another phnse of the present post
office situation, which Is very dis
tressing to civil service advocates,
is that barring anyone from an ex
amination for postmaster who does
not receive his mail at the particu
lar office for which he Is a candi
date. In many western and other
thinly populated states there is
some point to this. But there Is
very little merit In It. civil service
people contend, in and around the
big cities.
The Norris plan would delight the
civil service people If they thought
there was a Chinaman's chance of
its going over. The Idea of a post
mnster general divorced from poli
tics, serving President after Presi
dent on a long term appointment
just ns Comptroller McCarl has
served In auditing expenditures, Is,
in the opinion of the civil service
folks. Just too good to be true. And
therefore not likely to happen.
Copyright.—WNU Borvlc*.
Training Bousto
iTTTTWhM
Boy Scouts Making Fire Without Matches.
Prepared bv National Geographic Society.
Washington. D. C.-WNU Service.
□EXT August the nation's cap
ital will be host to 35,000
Boy Scouts at a national
Jamboree. Boys chosen for achieve
ment in scout work will be the dele
gates of thousands of troops, large
and small, throughout the country.
The Idea of training boys so they
will make useful men is, of course,
as old as mankind. You see it even
among savages. They fall short of
what we teach Boy Scouts about
thrift, kind acts, and telling the
truth. But, like us, they do teach
their boys to swim, jump, make
traps, build fires, use the bow and
arrow, track wild animals, and to
endure hard knocks without whim
pering.
Take the Zulu and Swazi tribes In
Africa. They never heard of Boy
Scouts; yet their sons, before they
are taken Into the tribe as warriors,
get a training in woodcraft and self
reliance which is superb.
Stripped naked, his body painted
white by men of the tribe, the Zulu
boy at fifteen is given a shield and
spear and sent into the jungle. He
Is warned that he will he killed if
he allows himself to be caught by
any human. It takes about a month
for the paint to wear off. During
that time the hoy has to kill his
own meat with his one spear, skin
an nnimal to make his body cover
ing, and also learn what kind of
wild plants, berries and leaves are
good as food. Failure may mean
death at the hands of enemies, wild
beasts, or by starvation. But if he
succeeds, as he is supposed to by
this severe Initiation, lie returns to
the village when the paint is worn
off, and with great rejoicing is re
ceived into the tribe as a warrior.
Zulus on Parade.
“Zulus on the march form always
a fine sight,” writes Lord Baden
Powell, “and I shall never forget the
first time I saw a Zulu army on the
move. As a matter of fact, I heard
it before I saw it. For the moment
I thought that a church organ was
playing, when the wonderful sound
of their singing came to my ears
from a neighboring valley.
“Then three or four long lines of
brown warriors appeared moving in
single file behind their chiefs,all with
the black and white plumes tossing,
kilts swaying, assegais, or spears,
flashing in the sun, and their great
piebald ox-hide shields swinging in
time together.
“The Ingonyama chorus played on
the organ would give you a good
idea of their music ns it swelled out
from four thousand lusty throats.
At a given moment every man would
bang his shield with his knohkerry
(club), and it gave out a noise like
a thunderclap.
“At times they would all prance
like horses, or give a big bounce In
the air exactly together. It was a
wonderful sight, and their drill was
perfect.
“Behind the army came a second
army of boys carrying on their
heads the rolled-up grass sleeping
mats, wooden pillows, and water
gourds of the men.
“They were Boy Scouts of their
nation.”
Our enrly-day western scouts, of
course, learned much from the In
dians. By observation and experi
ence, they came to understand In
dian smoke signals, picture writing,
what certain sticks meant laid in
patterns on the ground, and the sign
language.
Then there was tracking, the art
of following a man or animal, not
only by footprints, but by such faint
signs as n turned-up pebble, bent
weeds, or a broken twig by the way
side. A lot of that we got first
hand from the Indians, and every
good cowboy still employs it in
finding stray cattle and horses.
But looking back into the annals
of youth movements, we see that
long “hikes” are nothing new. There
was the Children’s Crusade, when
in 1212 some 50,000 youngsters start
ed from Europe for the Holy Land.
It was Stephen, a shepherd boy
of France, who launched this his
toric youth movement. A German
lad named Nicholas, from near
Cologne, also raised an army. The
Germans 20,000 strong, crossed the
Alps Into Italy. Many perished. Sur
vivors, reaching Brindisi, were for
the most part seized and sold as
slaves. Their French comrades, .’it),
000 of them, were led by Stephen to
Marseilles. Here some were strand
ed. Many accepted the offer of mer
chant traders to transport them to
Palestine. For years their fate was
a mystery, till it was learned that
they, too, had fallen among slave
traders, some being sold in markets
as far away as Bagdad.
Age-Old Training.
The world-wide Boy Scout organ
ization, as we know it now, is the
culmination of age-old training.
How Lord Baden-Powell, then a
colonel in the British army, con
ceived the Boy Scout Idea in the
South African war of 1899-1902 Is
an oft-told tale. One of his officers,
I.ord Cecil, organized the hoys of
MafekJng as a scout corps. This
frial proved that if their training
could be made to appeal to them,
boys could be led to assume much
responsibility, but only if they were
trusted.
It was Baden-Powell, or “B. P.,”
as boy's all over the world now call
him, who in 1901 raised the South
African constabulary. Troops in this
were small units, so that a com
mander could deal with each scout
from personal knowledge of him.
The human side was appealed to,
and scouts trusted on their honor
to do their duty.
Returning to Engluud in 1903,
Colonel Baden-Powell found that
certain teachers there had adopted
his “Aids to Scouting’’ as a text
book for training boys. His own *lrst
tiial camp for scout training was A
set up at Brownsea Island, England,
in 1907. That was the formal start
of a movement now spread over the
whole world, involving more than 2,
000,000 boys.
“To arouse the boys and meet
their spirit of adventure,” writes
Baden-Powell, “I held up backwoods
men and knights, adventurers, and
explorers as heroes for them to fol
low.” ♦
In the actual careers of famous
adventurers, and all they had to do
with boats, camp life, horses, hunt
ing, and wild life, Iladen-Powell
found exactly the lessons he taught
his boys. He trained them, just as
he had trained the army scouts in
South Africa, “with some adaption.”
he says, “to make the training suit
able for boys, following the prin
ciples adopted by the Zulus and
other African tribes, which reflect
ed some of the ideas of Epictetus,
the Spartans, and the ancient Brit
ish and Irish for training their
boys.”
By 1910 the Boy Scout movement
had grown so large that Baden
Powell left the British army to give
his whole time to this work. He vis
ited the United States to promote
scouting. A national office was
opened, and Dr. James E. West be
came chief scout executive.
Spreads Over the World.
Now scouting covers the world.
Including England, it is organized
in more than seventy different na
tions and colonies, and under the
guidance of an international com
mittee of nine. Two are from the
British empire, two are from the
United States, and the rest from
other countries.
It is twenty-four years since this
movement reached the United
States, where today it involves an
nually more than 1,300,000 boys and
men.
Men prominent now in the na
tion’s work were Boy Scouts twen
ty years ago.
One late count showed that 58
per cent of university football cap
tains were former scouts. When
Grantland Bice picked his first All
American Eleven, eight were ex
scouts. In a choice of Rhodes schol
ars for 1933, 71 per cent were for
mer scouts. In Sing Sing, says War
den Lawes, it is rare to find a pris
oner who was ever a Scout.
The Red Cross, the forestry serv
ice, the fish and game agents of the y
government, all get aid from Boy *
Scouts in emergencies. In civic af
fairs Scouts take an ever-growing
part, as in school fire drills, flag
raisings, supervision of playground
activities and Memorial day exer
cises.
In towns wrecked by tornadoes or
wasted by fire, flouts acting under
the Red Cross, the police, or the.
sheriff have done man’s work. With- '
in an hour after a cyclone hit St.
Louis 4.000 Scouts had mobilized to 4
help the authorities.
Men of strong character guide
these boys. Today more than ”50,
000 men in America and many in
other lands give their time and ener
gy to their training.
Exalting the pet hobbies of boy
hood gives scouting a world wide
appeal.
