The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-22
Science Will Add Ten Years
to Average of Produc-
tive Life
GOOD WORKING
CONDITIONS HELP
America Must Keep Up It's Production
In Industrial Competition - Pho
hibition Will Increase Country's

Production.
NEW YORK. Oct. 22.-Before az
assemblage of the most brilliant surgi-
cal talent of America, DIR. William J.
Mayo, elder of the well known Mayo
brothers of Rochester, Mimi, address
ing the clinical congress of the Amer
lean College of Surgeons last night pre-
dicted that 10 years will be added to
the life of man through the achieve.
| ment of medical science in the next
20 years
Or. Mayo, whose speech in the grand
| ball room of the Waldorf marked the
occasion of his taking Office as president
of the college, called attention to the
professional men and women who heart
| him to the fact that this added life
would come at the period when the can.
Ger is the most dread human foe, spoke
rather pessimstically of the present
| ability of medical science to cope Will
that foe, reviewing favorablv the con
tribution of radio active substances t.
cancer therapv, and urged deeper re
search into the abstract sciences that
| they may be made to yield their full
contribution TO the warfare on malig
nant diseases
Much of DIR. Mayo's address, tech
meal discussion of metastasis in cancer
| was not intended for the lavmen. II
| part he said:
"America is confronted with the
| "a .I,iaV, of III
war. How NAV she best meet the in
ternational competition along with
| failing immigration and an exodus OF
| temporary residents who are now re
| turning TO their European homes with
| their savings, earned in America! Nc
| one among lis can be so mean in spiri
as to desire the American laborcr to re
turn to pre-war conditions, but rathe1
| do we all desire that the laborer and
| his family shall be well housed. wei
fed, well clothed and that his children
be future American citizens, shall be
:! we'll educated and equal to graphing
with the problems of their time
/ . BY laborers | mean all those higl
or low who are engaged in productive
| employment; not only men but women
who under changing conditions in <his
country have become an important par
OF the labor supply
America must compete III inter
| national trade with countries which. de
Vastated by war contained people.
willing to work long hours for small
pay, under labor conditions which w
| hope never again to see in this country
| Successful competition demands eff
| Gent production. There must be a re
duction in this country of the 200 PEI
cent mpr0ductive man to a minimum.
Every person who is fulfilling an
| unnecessary fCnction between produc.
ton and consumption Is a double liza.
! blhty inasmueh as the labor of anothe,
Is required to maintain him and wha'
he might produce were he proftably
employed, is lost. This parasitic condi
ton Is a cause of great social unrest in
America.
" In the work of the medical profes
sion lies the best hope for the future
Since the close of the civil war l.
wears have been added to the average
length OF human life. With presens
knowledge and present conditions l.
wears might be added to the life of mar
In this country within the next q
wears. 1t IS certain that 10 wears vii
be added. at the most productive age
from standpoint of industry. and viii
greatly aid in maintaining our position
as the most productive nation. Wher
was a boy it was difficult for men O.
40 to find new job and for a man Of
% It was practically impossible Toda,
the Older men are great assets to tn
country
. In the prolongation of their lives
thelf SIKH and experience in their par
tlcuiaf work, counts for much. They
are less inflammable. they have famil,
hes and reSponsiblities-they hay,
something to iose-so that they are les
under the Influence of the violent aei
| tation
If. as nation, we advance the tim,
OF production of each person 10 vear
we can well afford to shorten the hour
OF WORK and improve living conditions
ana we shall be able to compete will
those countries in which long hours. an,
poor iiving conditions shorten human
ton VIII enormously increase produc
ton and increase social unrest.
The introduction of potable wute
mas made prohibition possible. Prohihi
tion Will enormously increase produc
non. In vienna, the per capita con
sumption of spurious and fermente,
liquors was reduced 40 per cent. fol
lowing the introduction of pure wa
ter supply from the mountains TIL
failure Of Italy and France to sunni,
potable water. necessitates a confirm
ance of wine drinking. Just as in Ger
many the drinking of beer will continue
II one traces he temperance movement
through the states of the union, h
hnds that IT was not the appeal to tn
self control of man which was benin,
TINS great movement but the advcn
of potable water.
Alcoholic drinks loosen the inhibit
cry control which civilization has i'm
posed over the primitive impulses o
man. Crime, accidents, and social dis
eases too often have had their origin i
the abeyanee through alcohol of ind
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