The Robesonian., 1917-11-29
KEEPING WELL
IS COMMON SENSE
People Are Now Applying Busi-
ness Principles to Keeping Well
and Efficient.

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
The life extension work which DIR. |
W. A. McPhaul, county health officer, |
assisted by DIR. A. j. Ellington Of the
State Board of Health, is now plan
ming for the people of this county, for
those between the ages of 20 and 65
years, is health work of the most val
liable kind. It gets results. It pre-
vents and stays off disease at the
most useful and important age in a
mans life, usually at time when
he does not expect anything in the
way Of disease to be the matter with
hin him and when he is planning. probably
the most important work of his life.
It's just this kind Of health work that
looks a man over and if there's any
signs of approaching disease, such as
cancer, Bright's disease, diabetes, or
tuberculosis, he may know it and may
at once set about to prevent or check
it. He will be told what to do and
will be advised how to live in order
to overcome the onset Of the disease
or to keep it off altogether.
People used to object to knowing if
there was anything wrong with them,
if they had any disease that would be
hard to cure or that would cost an
operation, but now they are so much
, more sensible about such things and
:. there's a reason. For it is now known
that almost any disease will yield to
treatment if begun in time. Cancer
; if it is discovered before it begins to
spread; tuberculosis is another cur
) able disease, if it is diagnosed early
; and the earlier found, the more cas-
lily cured. And SO, it is with those
sudden, dreadful diseases that mer
9 fear most, such as Bright's, diabetes
3 apoplexy, heart disease and harden.
D ing of the arteries What would 3
man not give to know that he hao
prevented one of these fatal diseases
8 that probably would have taken hin
: off without minutes warning?
To prolong life used to be consider
3 ed a preposterous thing to consider
much less to attempt to do, but nov
8 we know that it is possible to prolons
e life from ten, twenty to thirty years
AS matter of fact, to prolong lif
e and to keep efficient and useful is tn
s only sensible thing to do in this da,
3 and time.
: People are just beginning to appl
3 to the >selves-to keeping their bodie
in repair and their health at top note
10 the same common sense husines
/
a ing to business.
A business man, manufacturer
for instance, knows that it is goo
80 business to employ n1achinist t
IS make regular inspection Of his me-
u chimes or engines to prevent break
81 downs and probably wreck Of tn
10 whole plant. The automobile owne
IS carriers his car to the garage for
II thorough inspection, realizing that h
- must look out for the little ''knocks
48 and "leaks" in order to get good se7
-fvice out of his machine. And "
341 what is an automobile or an engir
II compared to the human body-tl
49 most wonderful, valuable and intr
AZ cate machine God ever made?
62 This life extension work or phys
81 cal examinations which Drs. McPha
Fl and Ellington propose making for O,
. people is just such repair work fl
IS the human body as an expert machi
ist would give to a valuable machin
to increase its value, to prolong i
usefulness and to prevent disaster
ruin