Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — Shouldn’t Be Old at 70 [ARTICLE]

Shouldn’t Be Old at 70

At 70-odd you can be healthy, vlgorous and full of fight. This'is the belief of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who ©(MSflnctiiig in Good* Housekeeping "The for Longer Life." We ; ■* i -Life tn the United States, and In every other country, is unquestionably shorter than It need be, and Its period of » to. ffwrt sven for that average length ox

life. It has been computed that the average of fully efficient manhood and womanhood under the present cOnditlons is only about ten years. Health is unquestionably the most important possession that we have; our happiness, our success in business, and In family life, depend upon It. “Average life, as revealed by the mortality statistics, undergoes in this country two critical danger points as regards death—the first under one year of age, the second about the age of seventy-five. The prolonging of the

average duration of life, which is now about forty-five years, to the second danger point, is theoretically possible by the elimination of preventable and premature decay.”