Evening star., 1930-06-15
Dr.. Cook Declares Degen-
erative Ailments Appear After
That Period in Life.
BUSINESS MEN SUPPLY
CHIEF AID TO COLLEGES
Aim of Education Declared to Be
Redesigning of Mod.
ern Life.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.
al Dispatch to The Star

vises DR.. Henry w. Cook, medical de
rector and vice president of the North
western National Life Insurance Co.
| because degenerative diseases, as dis
| tinguished from contagious or COM
municable diseases, at an alarming rate
are increasing and not decreasing"
! The other day I was lunching with
DR.. Irving Fisher of Yale. He told me
the story OF his Six-year fight, 30 years
| ago. against tuberculosis, which he won.
Before that time he had not been
interested in his health, but his long
illness changed all that.
Last Summer, unable to take a va
cation, he secured physical trainer
| TO remain with him and help TO cor
rect any signs Of weakness.
ITS not sign of old age to check
up on ones self at frequent periods and
md out the worst as we'll as the best"
said DR., Fisher. TITS the best way in
the world for a business man to dis
cover rundown condition An ounce
OF prevention is still worth a pound
OF cure. But most people, by their
actions, don't believe it.
| Il contracted tuberculosis In two
weeks, but it took me six years to get
over 1t. Now have a thorough ex-
animation every few months. 1 never
miss That's why I believe I'm in
better physical condition at SO than I
| have been In my lfe."
support for Colleges.
1t is a striking commentary on mod
ern lie that the business men Of today
are the largest supporters OF American
colleges.
While thousands of professors Rivs
their lives to the teaching of hundreds
OF thousands of students, the business
men grind out the cash to supply the
money for the equipment and the run
ming expenses.
What is the aim, after ALL of Ameri-
can college? Is 1t carrying on today as
the people as well as 1t can possibly doS
Recently In the Antioch notes ap-
peared a summary of what the Ameri-
can college should contribute to the life
OF the day.
THE American College should NOT
merely sum up the prevailing culture
anu transmit IL 70 the next generation.
~ should critically examine our civili-
Sation and contribute to its redesirn
ana refinement. Our modern life halts
IN It's progress, not only from inability
+ TO speak clearly, but from a palsy Of
Will and preference and lack of the
| spirit OF adventure which leads men to
undertake significant changes In the
social order" says this bulletin.
College and university leadership will
remain just about on par with that Of
leadership In other fields. Probably not
any better, probably not any worse.
Believe Worst Has Passed.
Nearly every investment service. while
admitting that business is still de-
pressed, believes that the worst has been
passed and that the low level of the
iasC three months will not be repeated
in the next three
Laurence Sloan of the Standard Sta
tlstlcs Co, sees eight signs at least that
point to better day. Here they are:
l. Stabilization of commodity prices
or, better STILL definite reversal of
the current downward trend.
2. Stable expansion in the agRre-
gate volume of physical production.
s. Expansion in consumer demand
for new automobiles
4. The backing up Of additional
FUNDS m the mortgage loan market and
revival Of residential building.
3. Expansion In commercial loans
6. Evidence that less business Is be-
ing taken on a non-profit basis by pro-
ducers, who had surplus stocks in the
last general business depression 1o2D
and who have surplus capacity In this
one.
Z. Evidence OF a reasonably salts
isfactory 1880 agricultural campaign.
B.. Improvement in world economic
conditions
r. w McNeel of Boston makes this
comment: THE board period of lioui-
dation in the market is over, and there
Is strong evidence that investors are
steadily accommodating the soundeSt
stocks on all reactions"
Paul Clay, economist Of the United
Shares Corporation, thinks we are in a
bull market: Simple as the PROPOSE
Dc Il
fact about the existing situation"
This writer thinks business will not
take on new life during the second quar-
ter, nor perhaps during the third. But
In the last quarter business should be
coming along In good shape.
Tariff and Business.
Col j. H. Woods, the president of the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce, has
given American business men some
knotty facts to ponder over.
After saying that Canada would be
hit IN her trade with the United States
to the extent of about SIS, 900, 900 an
nually by the new American tariff act,
Col. Woods prophesied that If such a
program continued there was nothing
left for Great Britain and her Domin-
ions to do but join the empire economic
union" in order to make them as far
as possible independent of the tariff
endcCnenJS OF OJner countries.
No American business man can ir-
more that statement. The British En-
pire, including its dominions, was doing
more than one-fourth of the world
trade in 1918. But it had 29.I8 per
cent in 1927, Col. Woods says.
The share of the United States in
world trade was 11.17 per cent In 1928
and 14.21 per cent In 1927
World trade of the British Enpire
in 1927 was more than twice that of
the United States and greater than
half OF all Of Northern and Western
Europe combined" says the colonel
II the British commonwealth of ma
tlons" in the next decade or so can tie
itself effectively into a working eco
nomic unit 1t will mean lot more than
Just talk to American business men.
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