The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-07-17
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Army Surg General Gives Sig
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"FREE' LAND ALL. GONE
WORKERS MUST SUFFER
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Over Eating Among Well to: DO
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from $1.25 to $3.50 a day and you
thread Of life 1s.years at least i:
That, in nutshell, is the conviction
Of Maize William G. Gorgas, sur
geon general Of the United States
army, the officer who converted the
Panama canal zone from a death
dealing to a death -defying isthmus, as
expressed in a copyrighted interview
with John callan o''Laughlin in The
Chicago Herald.
my belief. that an increase in the
workingman's. wage would lengthen
materially the average life is based
largely on my experience in Panama" ("
said Gorgas.;. ~ -@~s
''The question of, :, improving the
lower classes was forced on me in
Cuba and Panama I am convinced
that Increased wages were responsible
/ for ls much of p.1rss4ec sss on the 18th
mus: q OF purse aIslo ore pay could nos
ysliOs and st1cl.
better clothes and better living condi-
tions. 49, 81. .s..T. = ss.s5 - :,
!. "a Wages Are Doubled. .-x :
1--WE doubled wages automatically
when we went to Panama. It is not
within the power, Of the United States
government to double the. wages OF
every laboring man In this country,
i but feel, certain that If it could be
done the average life would be much
longer. hesitate to say how much
longer. but I feel sure it would be at
least IS years. @:5E :
II believe that our proof Of the fact
that the white man can live in the
tropics will result in increased wages
and therefore increased life because
it virtually has thrown open an area
as large as the western hemisphere for
settlement. 1t will increase wages in
America just as the discovery Of the
weatern hemisphere increased them in
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1T wages Of the laboring man are
not increased here he will 80 to the
valley of the Amazon, where he can
make IS a day working for himself.
1T is because all our lands here
have been taken UP that the lahoring
man is being squeezed and starved.
The making Of the tropics habitable
will have the same: hysieI1ic effect as
ii the government increased every
body's wages from SIPS to $3.50 a
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Z: Eating Shows Results. ~
( General Gorgas laid much emphasis
on the fact that persons who are
seeking to lengthen the average man, s
life are regarding persons OF the we'll
to-do class as the average American
citizen. Il am very much impressed
with the fact . he said, that, the we'll
to-do: class eats too much Dietetic
diseases among the well-to-do 4. are
having an enormous effect in Short
enin 3 Ifs ss sa g rs! I ~
. t"'But where overating shortens the
life of one personisiih 100. ndereating
shortens that Of . 3. .tsSssIf we are to
|lengthen the average life, we must pay
attention to the poor man Of . 5s@
You might get the: amount and
quality of The MI lionaire's food on an
absolutely perfect basis, but the death
esswould NOT he affected one iota.
because there are too few mi 1lionaires
IN the county,: S.. it ID In considering
the Ann nerican People generally. We
should look to the 3 . men in the, 100,
who work with their hands and are
insuffici emily and irnpr operly fed. Z 5.'
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