The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-04
JUDGE FORMS CLUB
TO HELP PEOPLE TO
LIVE FOR 100 YEARS
Insists That Average Life Span
Can Be Stretched to the
Century Mark
LUNCHEON CLUB ORGANIZED
Chief Essentials to Long Life
Are Exercise, Sleep, Fresh
Air and Good Food

Cleveland, Sept. 4.-(NEA)-1f vol
want to live TO be a ccnturys' old. and
wouldn't mind joining a new luncheon
club. Judge Henry Neil OF East Au-
rora. N. Y. has just the thing that
will interest you.
Judge Neil. who styles himself "A
wandcrer on the face Of the earth" IS
at present engaged in travelling abou.
organizing luncheon clubs Of would-be
ccntenarians.
He insists that the average life span
can easily be extended to 100 years.
But he has no especial formula. either
dietary or Of any other nature. by
which the job will be accomplished.
The chief essentials to a long life, he
believes, arc exercise, sleep, fresh air
and wholesome food.
Life Can Be Prolonged
Science is now restoring those Gle
ments to use as new and vital assets
CT long life. he says. Science has al
ready proved that by eliminating poi
ons from living bodies life may be
prolonged indefinitely. Modern biol
ogistS have found many life cells and
tissues potentially immortal
He insists, however. that his lunch
con club will not stress any dietary
fadS OF fancieS. Their chief emphasis
will be OH moderation.
William Jennings Bryan and Cecil
Rhodes, you know. killed Themselves
b. oyereating.' he remarks.
Judge Neil is 81, end has been de-
voting himself to the pursuit of a
longer life for himself and others for
nine years.
Il used to be a judge in Oak PARK
Ill. he says. Finally | decided to out
doing what I had done all my life. !
had raised nine children. They were
all married and I had a lot Of grand
children. / had been q regular business
man. following a regular business
mans routine. I had always eaten
abundantly. Then I got interested j..
efficient living
So Judge Neil packed his bags and
went exploring the earth. He read 2
great deal about foods. and decided
that any man who didn't change his
diet in his sos had no great chanc3
Of reaching 60. The judge was thel,
So, and he wanted to reach 60 and
pass it. So he made a change, and
took to travelling about. talking with
long-liyed people and reading all he
could find on the subject Of longevity.
III London he became the frequent
guest of George Bernard Shaw, who
drinks hot water with a little mills
added for his stOmach's sake. In Italy
he met Mussolini and learned thai
while the dictator attends many
state banqucts, he never cats at any
Of them.
Death Comes by Chance
sThe greatest apostles Of biology
maintain that all deaths arc fortu-
itous," he says. They say that II VIC
could live germ-frec and poison-frec,
and were immune from bodily as
saults in the form Of accidents. the
allotted span of mans life could pc
advanced from three score and ten "a
100 years. or over.
.One of the Oldest known me.l, by
the way. is an Indian, 100 years Old
He was born the same year that in
coin came into the world. From baby
hood he lived outdoors. and at an
early age went on a diet 81 uncooked
food. It Is the so-callcd comforts and
convenienceS OF civilization that haze
brought many Of the ills which az
flict u.s.