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Show 1 GOOD TO BEBORN IN Average Male Life 59 Years and Female Reaches GO WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 Kansas Is a good state In which to be born, for those entering life under the shade of tho sunflower live longer than those born in other states I This may bo contested by the other IT states of the union but the department de-partment of commerce Monday submitted sub-mitted figures baed on the 1920 census, cen-sus, which were regarded by officials as a certain knockout to the claims of any other than Kansas. The abridged life tublos as worked out by the deportment experts show-that show-that the expectation of life at birth In Kunsan ls 59.7 3 vears for white males and 60 89 for white females. Others favored In the matter of lcngc lty are given In the tables In the following order: OTHER STATES Minnesota, Tennessee, Oregon Washington, Kentucky, North Carotin Caro-tin t. Indiana Virginia and Missouri. Washington. D C . outranks all other oth-er of the fourteen cities covered in the tables with 53.83 years a.s the ex-Ipectatlon ex-Ipectatlon of life for white males and 58.83 for white females. Los Angeles (St. Louie I leveland, I'hlcago, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Detroit. San Francisco and 'New York follow In the order named 'for white males and Pittsburg stands at the fuot of the iables with an expectation ex-pectation of 41. 66 years. The tables also seem to dispose of the frequently made a-ssertions that people don't live as long as they used to live. The department figures show that the expectation of life for whU'1 males has advanced from 50 23 In 1910 to 53 98 In 1920 and for females j from 63.62 to 56.33 In the same decade |