The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1938, Page 3

a FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938. TOMORROW’S CHILD TO LIVE LONGER AND WOMEN ARE 10 OUTNUMBER MEN By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE ! | Big Ten of death-dealing diseases AP Feature Service Writer We have yet to find the fabled fountain of youth, but the aver- age American is becoming heal- thier and bigger, and is living longer. Despite the fast tempo of life today. the automobile’s appalling slaughter and new-fangled dis- eases, a child born in the United States this year has the prospect of living 12 vears more than his parents had at birth. And on the basis of continued conquest of disease the average child born 25 years hence will live five to 10 years longer than one born this year. The 1900 in- fant had a prospect of living un- til 49. and the 1938 babv to reach 61. The 1943 baby’s life expect- ancy should be 66; perhaps 71. Nation Of Graybeards? This increase, coupled with a declining birth rate, is enlarging the proportion of elderly persons in our population. But don’t be ?fraid that we soon will be a na- tion of graybeards. The change within the next century will be scarcely perceptible. Nor is soft living and machine age strain making American de- teriorate physicallygg@olleze boys and girls of today are taller and heavier than those7pf the last gen- eration Medical science and hygiene centrating their attention on the that take their big toll among the middle aged and elderly predict spectacular gains in 25 vears. The Big Ten, in orc=r of mor- tality rate, are: Heart diseases, cancer, pneumonia, kidney: dis- eases, cerebral hemorrhage. tu- berculosis, malformation and dis- eases of early infancy, diabetes, influenza and RYE. S. medicine marshaling powerful resources fee the war on cancer, which takes some 137,000 lives yearly. The federal govern- ment, the American College of Surgeons, the American Medical Association, clubwomen nd health officials are enlisted in the drive for early diagnosis, inten- sive research and improved treatment for “the great dark- ness”. Heart disease has been increas- ing but medical science is better able to detect this No. 1 killer and has made effective means of con- trolling it Help For The Poor All of the Big Ten except cere- T00 LATE TO By RUSSELL KAY eecccccccecccoscscsscess I've been hitch hikin’ around the state for the past two weeks in company with “Red” Edgerton of the Western Newspaper Union. It’s about the only chance I have to get out and visit with the newspaper boys. While the 90-mile an hour pace that “Red” maintains between towns is more or less detrimental to a guy’s nerves and heart, the pleasant hours spent in company with members of the Fourth Es- tate at each stop more than make up for it. Starting with a swing throngh bral hemorrhage, diabetes and ap- the Pinellas Peninsula and up as pendicitis strike most often and) far as New Port Richey, wé then hardest in the homes of the poor.' turned south covering all coast Con: th the prospect is for towns as far as Fort Myers, then more group effort to improve the‘ east for a quick trip around the health of the under-privileged. Lake area before returning north Socidlized medicine—and the) to catch thé ridge and interior agitation over it—is increasing ' towns. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN PROBLEMS OF =| STATE UNDER ATE pee Eee Ind., taken = DISCUSSIO | tari in War of the Revelation | atter heroic and historic march, | opening up the great Northwest. SUBJECTS TAKEN UP DEAL —_— Sere a os porated the Bank of the United! CATTLE AND POULTRY IN-} States, a national bank, under 2 | twenty-y E pu j fwenty-year charter. | 1820—Maine, then part of Mas- ffeecial to The Citisen) | sachusetts, having voted on sep- HAINES CITY, Feb. 25.—State-{ aration in a popular election, was wide problems now vitally affect-}so separated by Massachusetts’ ing Florida’s citrus, cattle andj jegislature—admitted as a State poultry industries were discussed jin March. here recently by members of the! Agricultural Committee of the| Florida State Chamber of Com-! merce and other agricultural leaders from all sections of the state. After hearing several speakers discuss present difficulties in the cattle industry, the group passed | eeecenccccccscccccococes! Today In History: 1791—Act of Congress incor- 1836—Samuel Colt, of Ware, Mass.. then in his 21st year, re- } ceived his first revolver patent. 1901—U. S. Steel Company in corporated. 1913—16th Amendment PARKING LAWS ARE ENFORCED WITH PEANUTS (Ry Axseciated Press) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 25.— Milwaukee police have been trap- | Ping parking violators with pea- nuts. They used to mark the tires with chalk but then motorists got wise and rubbed out the tell-tale signs. A police sergeant instructed his men to buy bags of peanuts. Aft- er chalking the wheels as of old an officer tucked a peanut in front of each front wheel and be- ‘hind the rear wheels. If the peanuts were whole when he returned the officer knew the car had overstayed its legal parking time regardless of what had happened to the chalk . | marks. Police said the plan had work- a formal resolution calling upon{ H come Tax—proclaimed ied. | State Chamber directors to name a a ! a sub-committee to call a State-| 1935—Died, at Tyler, wide conference for discussion of } the problems of tick eradication, fence laws, damage liability leg- islation, improved forage and stock improvement. Discussion of cattle problems was led by,P. E, Williams, Day-} enport, preSident’ of the Florid: Cattlemen’s Association; Dr. J. V,. Knapp, Tallahassee, State Vet- erinarian; “V. C.* Johin36n," Jack- jsonville; Joe Daly: Dr. B. F. Tex., al man who had been declared pe | five days previously: an adrena- lin injection in his heart after de- 'clared “dead”, revived heart Income taxes have risen from 110 to 40 percent in twenty-five years*as source of United States jfevenue, Magill tells bar group. beating in five minutes and kept alive in oxygen tent for five days j i) a Hpi PLA Y SAFE— By keeping FOORSTUE temperaturein dhe“vi Ss, RALL METAL 1€E REFRIGERATORS These refrigerators PROOF and a Priced from $20.00 Easy Terms—10 Days Free Trial On Display at THOMPSON ICE COMPANY, Inc. —Phone No. 8— are PRESENTED BY THESE FIRMS Virtually have conquered typhoid Meanwhile, our now slightly While the weather (and we’ "ve | Hughes, Pahokee. and W. W. Kin- Tadsts Spun Seiad: diniinalin aigctal etme saat eect i 3 4 MP hank alle fever, diphtheria, malaria and smallpox. Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough and similar dis- eases of chilhood are much less malignant. Surgical wizards build new blood “pipe lines” to the heart, take off tops of skulls to operate on the brain and perform “mirac- les” in building new stomaches as well as new faces. Wonder-work- ing glandular treatments are still in their infancy and new secrets of vitamin values and the func- tions of body cells are still to be revealed. 5 War On Deadly “Big Ten’ Medical authorities, now con- COMPILE RECORD SHOWING MAIN REASONS FOR AUTO ACCIDENTS (Speeiat HARTFORD, Conn.” Feb.-25.— Basic reasons for America’s shameful automobile accident record in 1937 were “too much speed and too little courtesy”, ac- cording to a new booklet entitled, “Death Begins At 40”, just issued by the Travelers Insurance Com- pany. The booklet presents a complete analysis of last year’s traffic accidents, based on offi- cial figures from the 48 states. There is no intention in the booklet, according to the editors, to advocate 40 miles an hour or any other fixed speed as a top limit. To quote: there are times, as in heavy traffic or heavy fog, when 30 miles an hour is suicidal; other times when 50 miles an hour seems reasonable. Every driver should know, how ever, that if he does have an ac- cident it is more likely to mean death if he is going fast”. Many of the features in the booklet have been prepared es- fecially to show what happens in the higher brackets of speed. It is pointed out, for instance, that a car is four times harder to stop at 50 miles an hour ol it is at 25, and nine times harder to stop at 75 miles an hour than at 25. A new word, “turnability”, has been coined to express another speed factor, The driver's turnability, the booklet shows, decreases rap- idly as his speed increases. Thus, he can make only one-fourth as sharp a turn at 50 miles an hour as he could make at 25 and onlv ené-ninth as sharp a turn at 75 as at 25. Another set of figures shows that if you have an accident while driving under 40 miles an hour there is only one chance in 44 that somebody will be killed but if your a comes while you aster than 40, there 1 19 that somebody y of high speed provides the main theme of the TODAY’S HSIN Revolu r, diplo- Charleston. Died tion, a Con born 16, 182: mat, Aug 1816 New York City biographer and historian, born Paterson, N. J. Died Jan ‘The Citizen) predominant male population is to had a mighty nice brand of it} become more feminine, the aver- lately) is still an excellent topic, age woman living three years “politics” is always something to| longer than the average man. talk about in the average news- Reasons: Women are believed to paper office, and I find that the be “tougher” biologically than information a fellow picks up men (their metabolic processes from the newspaper man is usual- are slower and they wear out less | ly pretty authentic as far as the quickly) and they are more shel- local situation is concerned, for tered from occupational hazards. no one has a better knowledge of In 1910 the ratio of males to fe-| the thoughts and reactions of fel- males in the United States was low-townsmen than the local edi 106.6 to 100. In 1930—the last tor. census—the ratio was 102.7 males to 100 females. Women probably to the Lee County Fair and was will outnumber men 25 years impressed with the improvement from now—unless the immigra- since I last attended one several} tion bars are let down. Louis Alsmeyer was given a per- sonally conducted tour of the Highlands County Fair at Se- bring. Both events were attract-/| creditable shows. At Winter Haven found editor George Burr, Jr., directing plans} booklet, there is theme which runs consistently with a combination attaek of ma- through the issue. for courtesy on the highway. Gras promises to be quite an After analyzing reports of 40,- event and is scheduled for the} 300 fatalities and 1,221,090 in-' night of March 18, with a gigantic juries in traffic accidents last parade, pageant and revue. year, the company’s statisticians Guy Ruhl was at the Rotary/| point to these interesting and lit- Club singin’ about the “Little tle known facts about accidents: Prairie Flower” when we arrived Exceeding the speed limit was in Frostproof, but we caught up responsible for 37 percent of the with him later and he took me| deaths and 25 percent of the in- around to see a sort of citrus Si- juries. mon Legree: fellow named Major More than 94 percent of drivers Keenan, who seems to have the involved in fatal accidents were faculty of makin’ citrus trees maie and less than six percent fe- that have been playin’ “dead” sit male. It does not necessarily fol- up and bark. low that women are safer drivers Keenan operates what he calls than men, it is pointed out, be- a Soil Laboratory and folks with cause adequate data on the rela’ sick or sorry citrus trees call on tive exposure are lacking. him to look "em over and pre- Ninety-seven percent of drivers scribe a remedy. First thing he involved in fatal accidents had does is make a careful analysis had one or more years’ driving of the soil and he usually finds experience. that the trees are “off their feed”. More than 78 percent of all fat- He recommends a special diet de- al accidents occurred when the signed to give them a balanced road surface was dry. Eighty- ration. three peréant of all fatal accidents So successfully has the Major oceurred ih r weather. been that growers are singin’ his More pes were killed on praise all over the state. He has Sunday ‘on any other, day. taken nen-productive groves and The heaviest’anjury toll came on! made them produce bumper crops Saturday. More persons were with as high as 90 percent first killed between seven and eight grade fruit at a cost of around 15c o'clock in the evening than at any a box. other hour. Like a doctor examining a pa- Fatalities increased last year in tient, Mr. Keenan goes into a every age group except that from grove and takes samples of the five to fourteen years of age soil four times a year, analyzes In the last fifteen years, 441.- it to determine just what kind of 912 persons have been killed in food the trees have been gettin’ the United States by automobiles. then writes a perscription adding This is almost double the number’ this or that element, cuttin’ down of American soldiers killed in ac- on others, and the results have tion or died of wounds in all the been truly miraculous. wars this country has engaged in company wit Open Collection Plate ae Brings 20 Per Cent Rise (By Asseciated Pree) POPLAR, England. Feb. 25.— The Rev. Mr. Kenneth Ashcroft bas no use for people who put a f-penny (one cent) in the col- sine The insura distribute two million copies the booklet this vear im. the and highitay saf company or any of its agents. i seccccccosecesscceces, leet NIVERSARIES © - would be slung out of any society if they refused to pay their ‘sub he declared re- _ He adopted a less severe way of ling with the situation. how- ever, than the canon who warned 2 would throw all haif- he collection into the out his i Massa- t. born at Worces- March 30. 1894. Rev. Mr. Ashcroft simply congregation on the spot tuting an open collection t the traditional collection ag which conceals the amount At Fort Myers I enjoyed a visit} made by John Maxcy. years ago. Also as the guest of| facing the industry. Other speak- ing good crowds and were very | It is the need Jaria and arthritis. The Mardi keting survey of the state to assist | caid, Keystone Heights. i A second resolution followed | explanation by W. W. Johnston, | Redland, ‘of proposed legislation | curbing the stealing of citrus fruit in Florida. He said growers suf- fer tremendous losses fram this practice as no law protects the; | growers. Appointment of a subd- jcommittee to confer with the; Florida Citrus Commission on this was unanimously favored. | Principal report on citrus was} of Frost-} | proof, chairman of the Citrus} | Commission, who reviewed thej work of his group and problems ers on citrus were: Ralph Polk, | | Sr., on citrus canning: John Sni-} | vely, Winter Haven; L. P. Kirk- i | land, Auburndale, and Mr. John-} j Ston. | F. C. Payne of Sebring, repre- | senting the Florida Poultry Pro- j ducers Association, discussed the for a gala Mardi Gras from his | femakable growth of that indus- a secondary sick bed, where he is seme try. pointing out that great needj is felt for a production and mar- TEXACO FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE PAUL’S TIRE SHOP g and White Sts. | the Florida poultrymen. Praising “Farmer’s Week” as worthwhile for the farmer, he urged the state }continue observing this event each year. Purpose and expansion of state| farmer’s markets were di: by William L. Wilson, of Jackson- | ville, director. He declared the} state is not going into the busi- ness. of selling Florida products directly but rather was prov iding! a place for buyer and seller to get | together. After the business session, over | which H. I. Mossbarger, of Miami, } chairman, presided, the were guests of Ralph Polk, Sr., at the Polk Hotel. 1 Cor. Fie: —Courteous Service— PHONE 65 TREVOR AND MORRIS INC. THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE Mr. Morgenthau, down in} Wash., he sent me a circular and { some pictures, showing people | with smiles and lookin’ pleased, ! while they are buying his bonds! —with so much down and so! much a week. And our Govt, it has been hoppin’ on the automo- bile guys. for offer: : : j|and the shoe, it look fit the Secy. of the Treasury And I looked at the pictures and everybody is ge liners, and playin estin’, etc—and it So I read the circular but could not find if the bonds were O. K| with the SEC or whoever i that tells other people what can sell—and m: $ n prove they are not a horse thief And with the Govt. i business, and other kinc ness. and never pa taxes, I am up a st Dealers in the World” pianos, looked great. | Make Your SALADS Taste Better For Sale By ALL LEADING RETAIL STORES eens ame need no stamp. sends letters free PANTIES FOR BABOONS LONDON — Secre ¢ th the London Z being given. And collections went up about 20 percent, he said. “Oldest Continuous Ford Watch The Fords Go By ahinchingni eke eee Miracle Whip Salad MAY BE DEPENDED UPON Give Them Your Business! | SAFEGUARD YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH! 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