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AMERICAN LEGION DOOMED BY DEATH Veterans Os Last War Dy ing 12 Percent Faster Than Other People Same Age Elmer, like Topsy, has “grown up.” , This month the American Le gion, which is Elmer, celebrated its 20th birthday. Newspapers throughout the country noted the event in reminiscent tales of the struggle since 3|319 when Col. Theodore Roosevelt first suggest ed the formation of a World war veteran’s organization. But what of the next 20 years? Will Elmer still be ■ living and if so, how much will he have grown, or diminished, in statute? The answer is an American tragedy. For, although are nearly twice as many men to draw from, the American Legion will not be as strong numerically in 1959 as the grand army of the republic was in 1906, 40 years after the War Between the States. United States veterans of the World war are dying 12 percent faster than other citizens of the same age, according to insurance actuaries. On every day of last year 86 more veterans answered the final roll call. Since the armistic of ’lB up to and including armistice day of ’3B, more than half a million for mer soldiers died—545,139, to be exact. During the present year, according to actuary estimates, 33,000 more will have taps sound ed. Life expectancy data shows the death total will increase every wear by 10 percent for fiVe year, 13 percent for the next five years, and then jump 'to 20-22 percent for the next decade. Records are not available on the deaths of veterans during the reconstruction period but mem bership rolls of the G. A. R. show ing a decided upswing in the 20 years following the grand army’s inception, reached , 323,571 in 1886, about one-third the poten tial strength. The Legion, on the other hand, shows a decrease over the last few years, closing 1938 with 974,- 637 members, well below the all time high of 1,053,909 in 1931. What is the cause of Elmer’s coming demise? The increased torture of war. Sherman’s men, after the march to the sea, were in better physical Condition than when they started. But the combattants who fought through Chateau-Thierry HI Boys PUTTIN • SHO IS, UNCLE NATCHEL PLENTY O' FERTILIZE, -PLENTY O s NATCH SC. ■T TOO^ •v*wva'A\ “"DLENTY o’ natchel soda” in it that’s important, be cause “natchel soda”— Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda helps you two ways. 1— It supplies plenty of ideal, quick-acting nitro gen, to help make the finest crop you can grow. 2 lt supplies a number of other plant food ele ments soil-improving elements—which help protect against plant food deficiencies. U y 6« aren't sure your mixed fertiliser has Natural Chilean In good Idea 1s to add a shovelful to every bag. Try ft. N/TRAT£or SODA THE NATURAL SIDE DRESSER ON YOUR RADIO! Enjoy the Unde Natehel program every Saturday wight on WSB and VSM, and every Sunday afternoon on WBVA. WPTft WBT, Wfa. VPBO, V3FA, WAGF, WJBY, WJBP, WMC, WJDX, KWKH, WL Famed Hen, Aged 23, Dies of Old Age nHHII « Mm mm I Granny. 23-year-old hen, died of old age near Salisbury, N. C„ re cently. Property of Lawrence A. Taylor, Granny was the oldest hen in the world. She was widely known among poultry men and was fre quently exhibited at shows. Until a year ago she laid an occasional egg. or the Meuse-Argonnc were physically spent, jittery from | constant shell fire, sniping, and trench life. In the Civil war, the chances of being wounded were not as| great. Desertions with interven ing periods of pleasure were more frequent. Shell-shock was prac-j tically unknown. Neuro-psychiatric breakdowns following the Civil war were a-j bout nil. A large percentage of ( post World war casualties are of nervous origin. Men who went to the front in ’6l were, in many respects, pioneers hardened by constant struggling for their place in the world. But the World war soldier had lived in a decade of luxury i and was not prepared for the strain of changing from office to trench. The difference shows up sharp ly in life expectancy figures. Whereas many Civil war veterans have lived to old age, the World! war survivor—now 46 years old, on the average—has only 21 more years of life. Watson B. Miller, national re habilitation director of the Legion after studying the death records] cf the U. S. veterans’ administra-j tion and comparing them with] mortality figures of private in- j surance companies, recently said: TlUhe averager death rate a- 1 mong the general population at the age of 46-47 is 76.8 per day. If this figure is approximately, correct, and we feel it is, the con clusion that America’s World war| veterans are passing away at a rERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. : rate 12 percent greater than i others in the same group is sub l stantiated, for the daily average | death rate of World war veterans ; during 1938 was 86.” ij So, it that Elmer, • proud of nearing his majority in : organization, and striving to keep ■ his waist line down at 46 years of | age, never will reach his alloted ;! three score and ten. .! In 1959, according to these sta tistics, the World war veteran, : at an average age of 67, will be as scarce as the G. A. R. veteran of about 90 years is today. , , And there were only 3,325 of t the “thinning line of blue” ac s counted for last year. Elmer is doomed! Long live ■! Elmer! ; o EUROPEAN TENSION INCREASES London, England—All Europe awaits Hitler’s next move, after his bloodless seisure of Czecho | Slovakia, which added 10,000,000 | people and $80,000,000 in gold to I the rapidly expanding German ( Empire. The store of bullion is , j insufficient to solve the Reich’s I economic crisis and the added j population merely presents ano j ther problem. At the big Portland , : Naval Base officers and men have ■ been ordered to hold themselves . in readiness for any emergency. | Paris, France—With the full i status of a dictator, Premier I Edouard Daladier has moved to J place the entire French army on 1 a war footing if any further \ moves are made by Germany to * change the balance of power in i Central Europe. France, Great Britain and Russia have declined | to recognize the seizure of Czecho | Slovakia as compatible with in . ternational law. ! Bucharest, Rumania—This gov ( ernment has signed a trade agree ment with the Reich, but it is emphasized that it does not fol low the original German de mands, nor does it constitute a surrender of Rumanian rights. r i Berlin, Germany—A million people stood for hours in the rain to acclaim Adolf Hitler as “Ag grandiser of the Reich”, a new title conferred on him on the oc casion of his triumphal return from the conquest of Czecho slovakia. ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS. Fertilizer We have the following brands ready for you: ARMOURS I AGRICO BAUGHS BLACKSTONE EASTERN FISH BRAND FARMERS OBERS RICHMOND ROYSTERS ZELLS Pass, Hester And Jones At Hyco Warehouse J. . . or any one of the 1,044,492 tobacco'dealers n the GJimj'J State, el. He’ll say... 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