Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — Shouldn’t Be OH at 70 [ARTICLE]

Shouldn’t Be OH at 70

At 70-odd you can be healthy, vigorous and full of fight. This is the belief of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who fs conducting in Good Housekeeping "The League for Longer Life." We in the United States, and tn every other country, Is unquestionably shorter tban ft need be, and its period of healthy efficiency is too Aort even for that average length of

life. It has been computed that the average of fully efficient manhood and womanhood under the present conditions 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.” _ '