Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1912 — FEW EARN LIVING AT 70 [ARTICLE]

FEW EARN LIVING AT 70

Chicagoan Tells College That 1,550400 Americans Are Old-Age Victims. Chicago.—Ton have one chance in 10,000 .of supporting yourself when yon are three score and ten, according to information which was imparted to Professor Charles R. Henderson’s class in sociology at the University of Chicago. Supt. William C. Graves of the James C. King Home for Old Men, made the statement in a lecture on “The Broken Family." "Only one man in 10,000 is selfsupporting at the age of seventy years, according to the statistics," said Mr. Graves. "In the United Btates there are approximately 1450,000 former wage earners, sixty-fire years and older, dependent on public and private charity, at a cost of 1220,000,000 a year. There are about 300,000 old people in benevolent institutions and homes in this country. It costs about $50,000,000 a year to care -for them. “Old age seems to be an individual thing to each person reaching it It is difficult to state that a person is old at sixty or sixty-five or seventy or beyond that”