Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1931, Page 28

IHALE AND HEARTY ON'TC2D BIRTHDAY Michigan Grange Leader Drives Car and Keeps Up in Spyrts. Waterman's Watermamn's Special Dispatch to The Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., September 23 (N.AN.A.)—This is the story of Thomas Gordon, who, keen and alert in all his faculties and still busy at useful work, will be 102 years old today. He . wi'l celebrate by being guest of honor at a joint gathering at Howard City, Mich., of Greenwood Grange, No. 1,217, of which he was master 22 years, and Pomona Grange, of “which he also ys a member. Thomas Gordon is the oldest person in Michigan carrying a driver's license #and probably the oldest in the world. He handles a car capably. In four #| his delights, and he is an accomplished For school or ‘college girl— LADY PATRICIA Colorful, dainty, slim aad efficient. Modern tiny clasp that holds securely to handbag or note book. In five feminine colors that key-in with smart clothes. .. Persian, Onyx, Jet, Nacre and ‘Turquoise. 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His héalth is excellent and he does much work about the house. The weekly wash is one of chef, home cooking, to his notion, being & small chore compared to preparing meals for 100 hungry men in a Jumber camp. He is & born tinkerer. If something in the house must be repaired and he has no tools he makes them. He walks across the city to visit friends and relatives and often stays out until midnight or later. In former years his hours in bed were from 9 to 5, but now he arises at 7 regardless of the retiring hour. ‘Worked All His Life. ‘Thomas Gordon always has worked. He was harvesting & crop of rye on his land seven miles northwest of Howard City when a committee carried him off to town on September 23, 1929, to cele- brate his completion of & century. Fred Green, then Governor, had come to do him honor apd there 'was a great out- pouring of people. He took & ride in the airplane carnival which featured the event. The Winter after tle Howard City celebration, Mr, and his yman the story of her father’s life In the Fall of 1852 he cast his first presidential vote for Pranklin Pierce and has voted at every presidential election since excepting at the time of { Abraham Lincoln’s second election in | 1864, when he was on the ocean. . | Practically all of Tom Gordon's life has been passed in the woods or on farm or ocean. Almost a total ab- stainer from lquor he enjoys a pipe or cigar and has smoked an occasional cigarette. | Here is what he told the Johns Ho kins Institute for Blological Research, | which asked him to what he attributed i his long life, “Moderation in all things—eating, drinking, working, meeting the problems of life honestly; giving the human or- ganism 2 chance, and above all things never nursing ill health, fear, sorrow or other d care” Lives Through Six Panics. Tom Gordon has lived through six ! panics without losing faith in his country’s future. “One thing is certain,” he says “business depressions in the United States always are succeeded by greater prosperity lfi a higher stand- ard of living than ever before, Panics run their tragic course and are for- H in the healthful reactions that i follow. I lived through the days when | bankers “made their own ‘wild cat’ money and when I had to carry & ‘money detective’ in my pocket. “I went through the regimes of shin- plasters, greenbacks, resumption of specie payment, changes in the money standard, ‘the crime of 73’ and s0 on to the present depression, which is | not anywhere near as terrible as was | the great panic of the 70s. Also hard times which existed from 1 to 1896 appeared to me more serious than the ones through which we have just been passing. year before. Mrs. Br P paring e. “I some of the dissatisfied men and || the | 887 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 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