Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-12
NORMAL LIFE OF MAN
ONE HUNDRED YEARS,
SAYS 99-YEAR DOCTOR


NEW YORK, Nov. ia move
ment to educate the people IT the
world to live 100 years is suggested
years old, who declared in an adj
dress to members of the American
Public Health association last night
that the Mosaic law limiting the
span Of life to three.score years and
ten was all wrong.
''Moses himself proved the falsity
of the law by living forty years be-
yond his own allotted time" he said
HE died apparently in good health,
for it is written that His eye was
undimmed and his natural force I'M
abated.'"
The normal and potential life of
man, he added, was 100 years, and
every child born was adapted in
physical construction and function
to live century. Deaths occurring
at an earlier age were due, he said,
to conditions incompatible with the
construction and function of human
organism and by proper education of
the people through the association,
such conditions could be changed.
The question of long life is gain
ing more attention; also the question
of saving infants is a matter now
of state and national legislation. l
never heard Of appendicitis until
former Governor Atkinson, of Geor-
gia, was operated on by an Atlanta
doctor for removing his appendix
some years ago.
Now 1t is an everyday business
to take out the appendix of a 'patient
also the tOnsils as a preparatory
step towards a really serious surgi.
cal operation. "The world do mover
The doctors get trifles out of their
way They clean off the brush to
get the ground in shape.
There have been so many people
who reached 100 before the appendix
was heard Of that am encouraged
to believe that I can still keep my
appendix. The Creator put it in
me for some purpose as T think.
Moses did not trouble about spec
tacles. He was in luck. His nat
ural force was undated at ITO.
There are a number of pensioners on
the list Of the War Of 1912, and the
War of 1872 stopped ITO years ago.
These pensioners are all widows
some as young as sixty-five and sew
enty. You can fix their ages when
they married grown-up men, 10
years ago, by your arithmetic. They
are still alive.
If all of us could get on the pan.
sion list we might live over 100
years, and then some.
who Compose the Majority of the
Strikers?
An article in the Manufacturers
Record, published in Baltimore,
Well-established magazine of large
circulation, says the following:
During the steel strike in Penn.
sylvan1a few years ago an army
officer stationed in the strike region,
IN reply to q question asked by a
congressman, said he had not been
able to find an American citizen
among the strikers, and some OF the
congressman who investigated the
situation, when they returned to
the capital told their associates
they had not been able to find among
the strikers anybody who could un.
derstand the English language and
the strikers spoke no language
which they could understand
A noted writer of New York saws:
Il recently visited the Connellsville
mine district and found that most
OF the miners making the trouble
there are foreigners and aliens--not
American citizens--and they neither
read nor speak the English Ian
guage."
When the president, Mr.. Harding.
made his address before congress on
August IS, he used the following
words: "The simple but significant
truth was revealed that except for
such coal as comes from the dis
tricts worked by non-organized min
ers the country is at the mercy of