The White Spark: A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The White Spark: A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation
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Reformers are often bombarded with statistics by brewery owners,
distillers and those whose ideas are regulated by personal benefits.
The favorite weapon is the story of the man who lived to be old and
always drank or smoked. Here is a reprint of such a story:
HALE AND HEARTY AT 102.
New Jerseyman Chews Tobacco as Preventive of Disease.
Newton, N. J., Dec. 22.--Charles Ashford Shafer, Sushex
County's oldest resident, celebrated his one hundred and
second birthday at the home of his son, George Shafer,
to-day. Mr. Shafer is still active, hale and hearty, and
walks several miles a day. He was born a few miles from here
and has spent all his life in this section. For many years
he conducted a distillery. The centenarian declares that
chewing tobacco is a means of preventing disease, and he has
been chewing it since a boy. Mr. Shafer reads without the
aid of glasses.
But wait a minute--here is a better one:
TEETOTALER DEAD AT 115.
West Virginian Never Tasted Liquor or Tobacco in His Life.
Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 29.--Henderson Cremeans, known to be
the oldest man in West Virginia and probably the oldest in
the United States, died to-day at the home of his grandson,
Clark Cremeans, near Point Pleasant, Mason County, aged 115
years. He never tasted liquor or tobacco in his life.
And when we study statistics of the insurance business we may rest
assured that they are correct, for an insurance company gets a premium
on every policy and regulates its action upon the correct statistics.
Here is another reprint:
SAYS PROHIBITION IN RUSSIA WILL SAVE 500,000 MEN
Insurance Expert Claims That If Czar Carries Out Present
Intention, Loss of Half Million in War Will Be Made Up in
Decade.
New York, Dec. 11.--Results of an investigation in which
an entirely new set of statistics had been gathered were
put before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at
their annual meeting at the Hotel Astor yesterday and threw
a new light on the influence of alcoholism, overeating,
undereating, and other factors in shortening lives.
The investigation, which has just been completed, concerned
the causes of premature deaths in the last 25 years among
the 2,000,000 policy holders of 43 leading insurance
companies. The object of the investigation was to determine
which types of persons could be insured safely at regular
rates, which ones should pay extra premiums, and which ones
should be refused. The results were given by Arthur Hunter,
chairman of the bureau that made the investigation.