| Show MEN WHO HO KNOW I MERELY SMILE Recent Statement of Secretary Root Called in Question 4 CONGRESS OF ACTUARIES I X T DISCUSSION OP OF THE TEE or LONGEVITY S S t JIW YORK Aug Auff 31 The fourth I N I 1 Congress L S o VUu arfet in this thib city toa to today ay Th Tb delegates delegate Included ed men from M foreign countries The secret ry v nt or j labor abor and George B 13 I I you ow who is an ap honorary i vt 1 delegated deJe ted by president to open OPeO ope ti th ion and vered an address addre 1 The Th he i son session will continue con COlI us for fer the vv W ok I After cordially greeting the d k sat i Secretary Cortelyou spoke bitelY of or orthe the tile historical aspects aspect of the Ima I na U m e business Membership lIe in the Actuarial I I Society b of America which was jrr ll llin bed in he be said ald signified high hight at attainments att I t Then Thea he said id Greeting to Delegate Dl dl I 1 am glad indeed to greet you noc r n I only onIl as the representative of the gov eminent erni ent but of the department depa t of com coin commeree i meree merce and Jut labor which is Ie fortunate in I participating at the beginning of it Its ItO I career caner in so po representative and aDd note a meeting as u this congress eQ Th The Tho officiate o of the new department will watch watell your proceedings with great in m interest terest for the t th more fully we w study the t scope orope of ff the th law whIch created it the themore themore more clearly appear the points at which MCh our work touches the th interests Ul which you represent From your discussion and arid delibera deliberation deliberations tion will wID come new principles and new methods in the to which you Me are devoted but greeter greater ter and abd more beneficent than these will be he the silent lent influences Influence that spring from the good fellowship fello p and d better understanding fostered fo In hi the friendly meeting of representatives representative of many of the world worlds s great powers i Officers Elected The address of ot Mr III Lepreux x president president dent deBt of the permanent nt committee was wa followed by the election of the follow following tug ing of the congress con s President of the permanent committee com ee O 0 I L Le Let Lepreux Lepreux preux secretary geoM the per permanent manent manet committee A Began Be honor honorary honorary honorat ary at president George B R Cortelyou president of the congress con Israel Pier Pie Pierson Pierson son ROn general secretary John ohn hn Tatter Tater also vice president for Belgium Can Cain Canada ada ad France Franc Germany Great Britain Norway and Sweden Holland Bolland United States Austria and Italy A letter from President t Roosevelt expressing ing regret at his hIa inability l to be bere present re ent was read and aIt a brit brief address by bv President Pierson b and a discussion of papers oh on the Improve Improvement Improvement ment meat in Longevity an aD adjournment was taken Morning Discussion D The subject of the e morning discus discussion siGn sion JeD Improvement p eDt la i tr was n aa again gath taken Uk up in the afternoon C d T lewis lwi said that there voice three i for or te ke improve pro In I better care that t children S n received v the L 1 tn handling epidemics especially e pro progressive in the last few f w years yen and aad the vast improvement In 10 medical mediC l and sue sur surgical science We find he be said sid that the mor mortality in in particular disease ee has IJ ha been decreased very greatly gt in the tile last forty years These influences influence are all eil alike in this respect that all aU represent not an increase in the vitality of ot the th strong but a diminution of mortality among the weak The number ml 0 f weaklings i is today therefore greater creat r raDd and aDd te t result is a degradation de rd of fn flu masses mas s in the average 1 Lap K KF F P IX L Hoffman of ot Newark university eU lecturer on actuarial subjects said Mid in part When we weare are told by a secretary tary o 0 war that the mortality in cba hiba is Ia not more than that in the city of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York it does not require much actu actS actuarial actuarial arial anal knowledge to smile mlle and aDd know that it is fa nonsense lont se He declared that the th statement that the death rate of the city of Havana Is IK no tto greater than that of or Washington City to be untrue For F r some seine time to toOm come Om the death rate of Havana will ID be from 50 to per cent greater ter than i any northern city |
