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How Fast A re You Living?
By ARTHUR PAUL
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DR. GEORGE L. MEYLAN
f KM f Physical Education and Medical Director,
Columbia Univemity.
YOU do not need a university education to applv
the rules for sane living, according to Dr. George
L. .Meylan, professor of physical education and
medical director of Columbia University, in New York
City. The rules are so simple they have become plat
itudes. People repeat them without thinking of their
importance.
The difficulty lies in following the rules, after they
are tamed. For in spite of the elaborate theories
which have been worked out by faddists and cranks,
each with his own particular cure for the defects of
modern living, the whole problem will boil down into
six word-, says Dr. Meylan.
Here they are :
Don't wTry.
Be moderate in everything.
DoubtK v these two brief sentences have a familiar
sound. There is nothing startling about them, but they
are the kej to longevity.
Fifteen ears ago Dr. Meylan, at his summer camp
in Maine, was swimming in the lake with his two boys,
when Hezekiah Lombard came along in a rowboat.
riezekiah was eighty-one years old.
"Come along and have a swim," Dr. Meylan invited
the old gentleman.
"Don't keer ef I do," replied Hezekiah.
He pulled his boat up on the shore, stripped and
walked out onto the springboard. But he did not dive
"Jest thought I'd teeter a bit," he explained, as he
went back to the shore and waded in from the rocks.
Heekiah swam around for a quarter of an hour and
then dressed and went back to his boat.
Seven years ago Dr. Meylan dropped in to see
Hezekiah about 11 o'clock in the morning. For the
first time in the ninety-seven years of his life the
gentleman was not up and about. Dr. Meylan asked
him if he was sick.
"No," said Hezekiah, "jest kind o' lazy."
Dr. Meylan examined him and found that the cir
culation had ceased in his extremities. He suffered
no pain, however. Hezekiah himself was not aware
that he was not functioning normally in every way.
That afternoon he died. It was merely that the ma
chinery stopped.
"It was the only perfect example I have ever seen,"
said Dr. Meylan, "of death from old age."
Hezekiah Lombard worked all his life as a young
man, sometimes in the lumber forests, sometimes on the
lumber tows going down to Portland which was
very hard work, indeed sometimes on the farm. Al
he began to get older he dropped off the harder kind
of work, and by the time he was seventy was not doing
much except farming. At ninety he did a little hoeing
in the garden, chopped some firewood occasionally and
picked up chips and carried in wood for the fire. By
the tune he was ninety-five picking up chips and watch
ing the fire from a comfortable seat were his share of
the household duties. During his last winter he
merely watched the fire.
His life was the essence of moderation. He neither
smoked nor used alcohol in any form.
Hezekiah's brother, who lived to be ninety-three,
smoked moderately and drank moderately all his life.
Hezekiah's son, seventy years old, who built two log
houses last summer with his own hands and unassisted,
used tobacco and stimulants in moderation.
Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard
University, was born March 20, 1834, eighty-five
petit ago. A few weeks ago Dr. Meylan sat beside
Dr. Eliot at a dinner in Boston. Dr. Eliot was in per
fect health and full vigor. Dr. Meylan asked him to
what he attributed his long and vigorous life. In its
Albania Still Struggling for Freedom
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ins just now are a .seething mass of revo
I lie crux of the whole matter lies in the
the Albanian problem. Albania is at
ime occupied by four foreign armies
Serbian and Greek,
sting interview, M. Nicholas Ivanaj, one
in delegates to the Peace Conference,
rtunately his countrymen have no gen-
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1 is in the western part of the Balkan
da, extending along the Baltic coast.
i ulation of about 2, 000, 000 people. The
's Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and
'"ad designs on Albania and hoped before
(i 'ar to divide that independent principality
lves. But Austria-Hungary and Italy
i " their own and would not permit it.
ion in BP un represents the actual public opin
armies f 1 'n addition to having those four
banians a 1 "l,,n n has btCM forbidden to the Al
tives with ,M ",,,e to meet together to elect reprcsenta
dttnand I ifr? to exPress the desires, or rather the
rh ' ot tnrir nation.
which rer ldcKations at the Peace Conference
legation i f wo Partics- The first is the official
Ner the ill I)l,razzo, and that has been chosen
heir ProRra "lce of the Italian army at Durazzo.
iStan( for All' ! t( Seek so,ne ma,,date or foreign as
anians fr an!a- The other delegation consists of
,ple and R co,on,es in America, Constant!-
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. i iit'SP ( i' 'ir:tii . :iri' in ti iii l.
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wJm pa!n?tic Albanians resident in those parts
n,a. that y work entiely in the interests of
ComPlete. ,s to say. for independence full and
Italy wished ,UTal condition of affairs is this
s t( keep Valona, with the accompanying
Hinterland, and to obtain a mandate over the whole
of Albania.
Greece claims the north ot Epirus. that is to lay, the
provinces of Koritza and Argyrocastro. This district
is entirely Albanian and was so recognized by the Con
ference of Ambassadors held in London in 1913. Al
bania will not agree to the appropriation of Valona ;
neither will she have anything to do with the pro
posed mandate. She will not hand over one square
inch of her territory to alien rule and is already op
posing these claims by force of arms.
"Italy will have this mandate in the course of about
three months. My countrymen are well organized.
They are in earnest and mean to win. Fighting has
been going on for the past three months in the moun
tainous regions around Scutari, Castrati, and Mirdia
Matia (Northern Albania). Albanians have been also
righting the Greeks in the neighborhood of Coritza.
are able to rally together 500,000 men for cer
tain. In case of prolonged warfare, we have enough
guns, munitions and all that is necessary in that re
spect. Supplies of food. too. are sufficient. We are in
the midst of winter. We arc a hardy race, we Al
banians, and we are able to endure cold, hardship and
deprivation of all kinds; indeed our history is but one
long account of such endurance. We look upon the
Italians as an enfeebled race who can in no way com
pare in strength and physique with the people of our
nation.
"We have met with complete success up to the pres
ent. The Italian armies have been driven from our Al
banian towns to the coast of the Adriatic. Our people
are so well organized that when the time comes for the
departure of the French army from Koritza, I can as
sure you that no Greek soldier will be able to put his
toot into that province, or into Argyrocastro, without a
struggle, the issue of which we have no doubt whatso
ever. Today there exist no intrigues with the Aus
trians and other peoples. Albanians are united in their
demands for complete independence and national unity.
They desire assistance from no one, nor protection'
from foreign powers. This program is in entire ac
cord with the aim of all these so-called small nations
The Balkans for the Balkan peoples."
M. Ivanaj has no doubt whatsoever but that Al
bania's rights and liberties will be won, not through
protracted negotiations of diplomats, but by the strong
riht arm of his fellow-countrymen.
briefest form Dr. Eiiot'l answer was "moderation in
everything.
Worry is largely a matter of temperament, but it
has so many different forms that it probablv has more
to do with shortening life than lack ot mock-ration in
other directions. The conscientious man worries about
his work. The ambitious man worries about his wot
pects. K
This old bugbear of worry shows itself in various
ways. It spoils dispositions, appetites and complexions,
ft is responsible for indigestion and nervottSOett And
it s one thing which a physician can not treat directly
I he patient has to accomplish the big results with will
power and self control.
Work presents an entirely different problem, says
Uf. Meylan. There is a positive limit to the amount
Of work which every man should do. he believe! and
this amount can be determined with a considerable
degree of exactness. He says that with the whole
hearted co-operation of the patient he can determine by
observation over a period of from six weeks to three
months just how much work any man can do without
danger to his health.
Does it make any difference whether the work is of
the outdoor variety fanning or forestry ,,r mental
effort f Dr. Meylan says no. A farmer is limited in
the amount of work he can safely do just the same as
the writer or analytical chemist.
Of course, there are things one can do better or with
less effort than others, and by choosing the things one
can do best and with the least effort one can accomplish
more in the specified working hours.
Dr. Meylan points out, however, that the nation
which sets up longevity as its ideal is pretty sure to
flow up in other directions. Progress means burning
out. It means doing in five years what ordinary effort
would accomplish in twenty years. If a nation is to
adopt longevity as an end. it must be content with the
twenty year instead of the five year speed mark, or it
must be content to adopt the ideas of others instead of
forming its own.
Seeks Aid for 600,000 Children
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V, S., N. Y
HELEN LOSANITCH
SERBIA has a distant and foreign appearance in
print, but this woman's face is a language known
to all. She is a Serbian, Helm Losanitch. and she has
seen much of the world. Her father is a distinguished
Serbian statesman who was for years a member of the
Cabinet and served as Serbian minister at London,
Paris and Petrograd. Mile. Losanitch is in the United
States seeking aid for 600,000 suffering Serbian children.
She has established a hospital and reclamation work
in her country, hoping to finance and extend it by the
help of American charity.