Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-31
The Chairman

Dirigo. but that we always slipped
could be spared from our duty of in
ficting intellect into our fellow citi-
Zens from the big rich states.
Judging from newspaper ac-
counts the present generation seems
to be in the same line Of business
that ours was.
"NoW. so far as We of the Maine
Three Quarter Century Club are
concerned it doesn't matter whether
or not ours, the passing generation.
vas superior 10 the present one:
but it is certain that we possess A
certain superiority that comes from
experience.
we have had more experience
leastwise longer eXperience-than
have had the people of the present
generation. 1t is not necessary to go
into the matter Of whether We have
properly profitted from our eXper-
fences We are more than willing to
impart our wisdom born of our ex
perience. to VAN against the doing
of the stupid and foolish things that
We did and TO suggest the doing n
such decent and wise things as we
did.
1T IS our duty 70 impart this
wisdom
ut is our right on the authority Of
that unwritten bylaw Of our Club
which guarantees to every member,
the right TO free and unlimited scnile
garrulity and to tell the same story
three times a week.
Let US then hravely go forward
with our proper work Of keeping OK
perience in circula ton for the in
struction and benefit Of the present
and coming generations of our Maine
fellow citizens.
The organization Of the Maine
Three Quarter Century Club was I'M
der the auspices Of the Maine Public
Health Association, and was con-
sumated last year as a dramatic les
son for the present generation.
demonstration that simple living.
life in the open air. ample hours az
rest. good wholesome food.-and the
Maine climate all tend to promote
long and happy, useful life.
Walter D. Thurber executive sec
retarv of the Maine Public Health
Association. was more than any 9TH
er one person responsible for the
conception and organiza ton Of this
club, and during the year that has
elapsed since the first meeting has
workea encrcetically that the club
might he representative. His eff
forts have registered the membership
at more than $4,000 and the activities
of the Maine THEE Quarters Cen
fury Club have commanded nation
wide attention. He was introduced
at the meeting yesterday as the
father" of the famous organization.
Walter D. Thurher executive sec
rotary Of the Maine Public Health
Association. under the subject. The
First Year of the Club" spoke as
follows: .
Maine pioneers are still pioneering.
They are blazing new trails. they are
doing new things just as definitely as
thew did 80 or - or 100 years ago.
This club itself is sufficient evil
dence TO prove the point if proof be
needed No organization like the
Maine Three-Quarter Century Club eX-
lists in any state but now that Maine
has one, other states are beginning to
copy Maine in this as they have in so
mauv other things.
Within the past year other states
ranging as far west as Utah have
asked for copies of the plans under
which the Maine Three Quarter Cen
fury Club was formed.
With the splendid cooperation Of
the members of the State committee
and other public spirited men and
women in all sections OF the State