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Show America's Ten Big Problems say: thraa aiatara and ona brother: Mrs. Owen R. Parry. Southgate, Cel.: Mrs. i Hans P. Laraen, Mrs. Prank M liner and Hyrum B. Jonaa. Spanish Pork: 14 graadcbil-dren graadcbil-dren and one great-grandchild. I Punaral services will be conducted Thursday Thurs-day at 1 p. gs. in the Third ward L D 8. chapel, with Interment in Spanish Pork City cemetery, under tha direct loa ef the Claudia funeral home. Increasing Abundance of Good Haalth Hald Important Im-portant to Country This is the seventh of series of articles in which Professor William Fielding Ogburn of the University of Chicago discusses what ha considers the ten big problems lacing America. Br WILLIAM FIELDING OGBUSN aeasarek Dlreetar, Preeldeafs Cess-BaiUee Cess-BaiUee Bseeas Beelal Treasls (Written for tha Aasoclsted Press) A baby born today will live on the average expectation 58 years. The expectation for a baby bora in 100 was that it would live to be M Years ot age. Tha length of Ufa has increased in-creased about two-thirds. ' This hss been made possible by conquering one disesse after another We know enough now to stamp out malaria, hookworm, soclsl diseases snd tuberculosis if we spend the money and organize properly to do It. On the other hand, we do not know enough to atamp out the degenera tive diseases of the kidneys, of the circuletory system, and cancer, many of which aet in late in middle life. For a person who has reached 45 or 50 years of age the expectancy for a longer life la about the same as It was several generations ago. So many diseases, however, have yielded to research sines the time of Psstsur thst hope csnnot ba denied. INCkCASINO HEALTH A TASK There ia not only the problem of reducing disease and ot postponing death, but there is the task of increasing increas-ing the abundance of good health. There is difference between the absence ab-sence of ill health and tha presence of buoyant health. Good feeding in infancy and the avoidance of Illness In childhood are first steps In a program ot more vigorous vig-orous health. These two things are. perhaps, most responsible for our increased in-creased steture. . Another reasonably aura way to Improve our health would be to raise our standard of living, for the poor have higher death and disease rates than the well-to-do. City dwellers do not yet have as 'good heelth In gen- eral aa country folk. The growing number of aedentary occupations indoors in-doors must alto be an -influence counteracted coun-teracted in part by the growing participation par-ticipation in outdoor sports. , Another Important factor Is the m-cressing m-cressing knowledge of the chemlcsl nature of food and the mineral needs ot the body. WOMEN OUTLIVE MEN The expectancy of life for women despite the hazards of childbeartng (which are unduly large in our country coun-try I is grester then that of men. It seems probable that this is due to the nature ot man's occupations. Specific occupational diseases and the general Industrial wear and tear on life are problems to be deslt with. The problem of lllnaaa la aa well appreciated as thst of sny soclsl problem prob-lem by our people, snd aa much effort ef-fort and money go Into it aa Into our other efforts toward ameliorating our lot. Yet it must be included In a list of ten major problems. The effort snd appreciation are still not enough though. Herbert Spencer, in attempting to spprslse the educational program, concluded that of all knowledge that most worth having waa knowledge about health, and also that the first requisite of life was to be healthy animal. Taaaerrew: "Haw Many Aaserleetsa, and Wltat Stat?" Fee the first Uaae la history the Banker ef people la sakjeet te eentrel, says Prefeeeer Or bars. N a sabers art act markets, wagee. User eapply, wan, real estate valaee, edaeatlea expeaeee aad peoaihillttee. Another Meettea eeaeerae their das-trlkatlea das-trlkatlea ra eitlee er alette; the eeatr trysts a. The aalily erf peaatatlea a ea ran pert at aa aanUty. Shall tha pepalaUea ef the tela re eeaae Basra largely I re as snare we asm deleetiva ateek er frees the aaperter Individ-aalaf Individ-aalaf The aeeale ef America sheaU have h well theasM eat peaalatrea peltry. Prefeeeer Ogkara aaya ta ha aext article, (Copyright. 1933. by tha Aisociatec : Frets.) |