Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — WILEY HITS OSLER THEORY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILEY HITS OSLER THEORY

Maximum of Efficiency Not Reached Until Three Score, Says Pure Food Expert.

Washington.—Men and women sixty years old and over are the real benefactors and the actual workers for the uplift of the human race, in the opinion of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, formergovernment “pure food” expert, who made the declaration to the Washington Secular leagues. Dr. Wiley was distinctly opposed to the Osler theory And insisted that It was possible to grow old without becoming senile. “The Idea that the great services to humanity are rendered by young men and women,” Dr. Wiley said, “is shown

by the facta to erroneous. These services are rendered by elderly men and women. We do not reach the maximum of efficiency until the age of sixty."

Dr. Harvey Wileys