General Old Age Greatest In Serbia Serbia is especially the country of centenarians. One man in every 2,260 has seen 100 years and, in all, Serbia boasts 575 men of 100 years or over. Ireland ranks next, with one centenarian in every 8,130 of the population, or 578 in all. Out of every 43,000 Spaniards one is a centenarian. Norway numbers twenty-three, or one in about 96,000. England, Scotland, and Wales rank next with 182, or one in about 177,000 France has 213 centenarians, or one in 180,750. Sweden ranks seventh with twenty only, or one in 250,000. Germany has seventy-eight, or one in 702,000. Denmark only claims two, or less than one to 1,000,000 of its population; and Switzerland, with all its reputed healthiness, seems not to possess a single centenarian.-Science Siftings. Lord Ronaldshay on Indian Ideals Lord Ronaldshay invited the leading members of European and Indian communities at the Government House on Dec. 4. for a private view of the paintings produced under the auspices of the Indian School of Oriental Art. Lord Ronaldshay expressed the hope that it might be possible to establish in Calcutta a centre of Indian culture under Government patronage. A capital grant had already been provided and the Government is prepared to render assistance in the matter of current expenditure during the coming financial year. Lord Ronaldshay in the course of his speech said: "I take deep personal interest in the school of Bengali painting because apart from the particular merits of painting itself. I see in it a perfectly legitimate field where that unrest of spirit from which India has been and still is suffering may leaven the soil with wholly commendable results. I have diagnosed the root cause of Indian unrest as a clash of ideals. I have no doubt in my own mind as to the correctness of my diagnosis and I have the most profound sympathy with the cause, with the struggle of Indian ideals against extinction. But while I have sympathised with the cause of unrest I have often been obliged sternly to condemn many of its more regrettable manifestations thus adding to the impression that all forms of Indian self-assertion are repugnant to an Englishman. Such a belief is like a noxious weed which poisons the atmos phere against all true understanding between the two races and that is why I so gladly seize this opportunity of uprooting and casting it upon fire. I am in profound sympathy with the spirit of Indian unrest. As a result of it I look forward to seeing the peculiar genius of Indian people finding renewed expression in an artistic language of its own. If this new movement in art remains true to the spirit of the soil from which it has sprung, as I am sure it will, we shall see it leav ing on one side the realism which is so marked a feature of the art of Europe and clinging to the idealism which has coloured so deeply the whole intellectual life of the Indian people." A Cure for Social Unrest The following are the views of Dr. William Mayo, President of the American College of Surgeons : The lengthening of the span of human life has been put forward as a remedy for social unrest and a means for increasing production by Dr. William Mayo, President of the American College of Surgeons, in an address to the Clinical Congress. Since the close of the Civil War, said Dr. Mayo, 15 years have been added to the length of human life, and in the next 20 years it is certain that another 10 will be added. When he was a boy it was difficult for a man of 40 to find a new job, and for a man of 50 it was impossible. Today the older men are great assets to the country. Their skill and experience count for much. They are less inflammable, and have family ties and responsibilities, so that they are less under the influence of violent agitators. He continued: "Another great factor in the progress of the world has been the supply of drinking water to cities and nations. The introduction of portable water has made prohibition possible. Prohibition will enormously increase production. The failure of France and Italy to supply portable water necessitates the continuance of wine-drinking, just as in Germany beer drinking will continue, Alcoholic drinks loosen the control which civilisation has imposed over the primitive impulses of man. But the arch foe of middle life and beyond, he added, was cancer, and measures both for prevention and cure had not advanced in proportion to the need. One woman in nine, and one man in 13, died of cancer. 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