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Show FEW EARN LIVING AT 70 Chlcagoan Tells College That 1,550,000 Americans Are Old-Ago Victims. Chicago. You have one chance In 10,000 of supporting yourself when you are three score and ten, according accord-ing to Information which was imparted impart-ed to Professor Charles R. Henderson's Hender-son's class in sociology at the University Uni-versity of Chicago. Supt. William C. Craves of the James C. King Home for Old Men, made the statement in a lecture on "The Broken Family." "Only one man In 10,000 Is self-supporting self-supporting at the age of seventy years, according to the statistics," said Mr. Graves. "In the United States there are approximately 1,250,-000 1,250,-000 former wage earners, sixty-five years and older, dependent on public and private charity, at a cost of $220,000,000 a year. There are about 300.000 old people In benevolent Institutions Insti-tutions and homes in this country. It costs about $50,000,000 a year to care for them. "Old age seems to be an individual thing to each person reaching it. It is difficult to Btate that a person Is old at sixty or sixty-Eve or Beventy or beyond that." |