Show Where Pe People pIe Live L Long ng ng- J The pitiless logic log c. c of percent percentages as I applied to vital vital statistics statistics falls falls faIls short I of accounting for one fact in the census census census cen cen- sus reports the reports the longevity of residents residents residents resi resi- dents of the few remaining territories of the country Of the persons in the population population lation laUon of the average American community community community com com- taking the whole country through there is just one which which- reaches or exceeds the age agee of As the census computers prosaically express express ex ex- press It ft die before that time One in is therefore the percentage percentage percentage per per- of centenarians in the United St States tes but in Arizona it is ten ten ten-ten ten times Umes as high as in the rest of the coon cou rv Q s w 11 Avi 1 o o It U Is nine nine nine-nIne nine times Umes as high as asin in the theether theether theother ether other portions of the United States Some states states Arkansas Minnesota Utah Wyoming and Idaho Idaho have have n nc no c centenarians Some states states states-Fl states Florida Florida California New Hampshire H South Carolina and Vermont Vermont have have a high rate of centenarians three centenarians three tI times es as large as the the the- average in In the th other 1 states but much much below blow the figures of t Arizona and New Mexico There Thera are few centenarians In New y England but the number of sons pe-sons j between the ages of 75 and 75 and there r are more than in any other othet section of 3 J the United States and tile the two New V fr England states which are most noted on account of their great reat number of r J Jold old inhabitants are are re Vermont end nd Maine Massachusetts has a considerable consid- consid V 5 erable number but the people of Massachusetts Massachusetts Mas- Mas are generally of a a. mire t J progressive character chara ter than thos j of the farming farming districts of Vermont and nd and L M t A genera generally t conducive to longevity The large number of centenarians J in the territories l is to be ascribed J probably to favorable climatic coldi and New Mexico Mex Mex- for b both th Arizona J. J ico leo enjoy celebrity as beneficial in 5 pulmonary ailments a The question of ot 1 territorial organization has probably 1 to do with It t |