The weekly true Democrat., 1909-11-05
0UGNT to-
LIVE i5O YEARS
50 Ssys PIoIsssW Fisher, e.
pei o. LallIty.
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vgerth % Lives e. tts lintisa--Prus.
ala Far Ahsad og ut b ths Matter
- Conserving Lile
Human ne a incleanlng IN length
e q vefS sabla rata st ths span wIIl
have % 80 a lncfe1niis Tor 4 long
time b6foes & be0s eetn aOrmal
tor aho humm be,ns odeht TO live 70
about iso yssih & - dit himself Jus
tlcs nays Professor Irving Fisher Of
Yale u & ramarkable study which has
1ust been ilsosd ~ ths rational con-
oervati0u eommislon. The commits
sion believes that the greatest asset OF
society a human lifo
Professor Fisher "A q book Of l2O
pagos says that after most careful
study q vitality ana health statistics
DO concludes that about $50 years ago
TIE average span o. ne began to in.
crease, and 4 kas boeh gaining ever
ainco. AZ ne end of The Seventeenth
century The average ne vas about
four years longer Ehan a ils begin
ming. AZ the end of the eighteenth
another four yosfS ~ bn added 70
the average. TAsn ams the MAE
tesnth With IT. great slTi1es n scianee
"A az departmenfa Ia ne arst three
quarters of that csntnrg TIE RRelass
leneth of lif8 Increased az tl4 rate %
about nine years % tie century
Psussla re- Ahsad ~ u
But n the lest gohsFation the IN.
crease has been faster than ever BE-
fore. IN Massachusetts, the average
length oe lIumen lles q SOW lnsfsqflng
AZ the rate az ao9ut toartsen gnars
per cehtufy. Hst Massachusetts y not
making 90 good . record as y present
od for EurUpe. - q whole. where the
present lperaass a "a tAe Fals oe sew
sntsen yeare IN q century. Prussia. tae
land 0f greatest advance II medical
surgical and hygienic science. "a ln-
cfeasiRg iis aVeraEe longeyity at ths
rate of tWonty-seven yeara per cen.
tafy.
eProfsss6r FISHER quotes the resnli of
MetchnlkoGsa Investigations 70 sustain
the cOntentlon that q normal age TOT
men should be about $50 years. hotch.
nikoR found that mammals 'generAllT
lived about ave TINES the period De-
voted to growing. The one exception
Is man. TIE growing period Of man =
about thiffy years Therefofe Y ne
should Ieuethon bis life Bp 20 the aver
are of ether mammals it Wculd Be
about 40 years. Professor FISHER dOes
not think that 80 years viii BE- ~ any.
means an impossible attainment when
the. unexplored possibilities OF scienca
sanitation and social betterment are
developed.
Century and Hall Not lmpossisio.s
The present Average age at which
people dio Of old age after having been
fortunate enough 20 dodge automo-
hlies. dlphtheria. toberculOaia. hunger
ana the other causes Of death q stat
"a as eighty-three yeaS.
The economic value Of human IRE
and the advantage 20 the social whole
10 Increasing ~ length are discussed
most enioftnlninssy b. Professor Fish-
q. he points out that the gustsining
og youth and old age u q Tremendous
onus on the producing capacity Of so
ci6ty. AZ civilization becomes more
compisk 4 longer period must b CIV
"a 10 pregafation f0F the real WORK.
consequently there n need for q com-
ponsating l8ngtt % the period within
which ehs Individual. having thus been
prepared az lhe social expense. may
work for society ln order 20 repay 80
lnvastmnnl lb Aim.
Professor FISHER BummaFiacs the va-
ssous slatislcaf estimates that have
been maae a4 thf ecgnomic yelue q .
hnman Ifa The American nation =
efudilod with the oWnership q gioIe
o1ooooOoo worin % pfppeFiy, but PRO.
SCISSOR Fisheg rcdches the eoncl1aion
lhne ths human bsines nfo eeononicai-
~ wtrtn aomaubal mone than laor
ceocooooo noa a. eda'uen p tolA
tHo cfer O. ts'rs.
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