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THE THREE SCORE AND \ TEN CLUB (By Helen Van Hoy Smith, in Atlanta Journal - ! It’s lots of fun to be 70 years old if you live in Miami, Fla., for then you can be a member of the i'umous Three Score and Ten Club. This organization is one of the best known in the United States, and is said to be the only one of its sort in the union. Its activities are chronicled by news services along with those of the moat important folk in Florida. It does not "hibernate" during the summer season, either. Club rooms in the Venetian Ar cade are open every day in the year, except Sundays, and each day sees u large number of men and women, all of whom have passed the three score and ten mark, enjoying vari ous recreations. Card tables are in one room, and bridge, five hundred, dominoes and checkers are enjoyed. In another room are easy chairs and a library containing more than 1,000 well selected volumes, all of which have been contributed. A most de- ligntful atmosphere of cordiality pre vails, and the rooms hum with con versation and laughter. Members of this club range from mere youths of 70 to those who have reached the more mature 80’s and 90’s. The oldest member is T. B. Burtch, who is 99 years old, and doesn’t care who knows it, because he doesn’t look it. One cheerful little woman was designated by an other member as our "hop, skip and jump” girl. Thomas S. Meek, who organized the club, is its president. Other officers are Judge E. S. Ellis, first vice president; Mrs. Mary B. Bail ey, second vice president; Charles C. Nicholls, secretary; Mrs. Lillian A. Shackelford, financial secretary; Jett Cox, sergeant-at-arms, Mrs. Florilla Bell, treasurer, and Judge R. H. Knapp, librarian. The organization meeting was held January 3, 1929. It was brought about by a chance encounter in the park between Thomas S. Meek, a Miamian, and anotluir man more than 70 years of age. The other man was a tourist. He told Mr. Meek that he enjoyed Miami and that it w'as imperative for him to spend his winters where the climate was mild, but that the truth about it all was he was just plain lonesome. Every one seemed so incredibly young and always in a hurry. No one ever seemed to have time to talk to a lonely old man in the park. This gave Mr. Meek an idea. He had small notices inserted in each of the daily papers, invited every one more than 70 years old, w’ho cared to, to meet in Room 222 Venetian Arcade Building. He really expect ed that perhaps the man in the park and a dozen others would respond. To his surprise, more than 200 men and women attended the meeting. Since then the popularity of the club has increased by leaps and bounds, and today the membership roll stands at 1,243. During the month of February last year, a total of 2,621 registered at the club rooms, and there are always f>oo to 600 who come up every week. Use of the club rooms is given by owners of the building, and club members have invitations galore. In fact, every one in Miami seems to want to make members of the Three Score and Ten Club enjoy to the fullest extent, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. On each Tuesday of the week the club holds an open forum meeting •when various subjects are discussed. Each member who speaks is allotted five minutes and he is advised to make his talk “snappy and interest ing." Some of these subjects have included: “Do Dreams Ever Come True?" “What Is Your Favorite Keepsake and Why Do ou r l reas ure It?” “Brief Description of In teresting Places Visited Here and Abroad.” “Were the Old Ways Bet ter Than the Now?" The Three Score and Ten Club includes many members who have traveled extensively. Members rep resent every profession and business imaginable, and they are from every state in the Union, as well as from Canada and England. In addition to being a happy-looking aggregation, the men and women of this club are all nicely dressed and well groom -ed. • Judge R. H. Knapp, former pro bate judge of the state of Idaho, pre sides over the library. Though he declares that he will be 89 years old his next birthday, he scarcely looks the required three score and ten. “I was born in New York state,” he said in a reminiscent vein, after he had displayed the books that are his special pride, "and 1 started to school before 1 was 5 years old. I had a most distinguished teacher, and 1 am glad that 1 remember her vividly. Her name was Frances E. Willard. One day at recess we children discovered a drunken man lying in the snow. Miss Willard took us back to the schoolroom, and if I ever heard an eloquent temperance talk it was one that day. She had the- example to point out. The last time I saw the features of Miss Wil lard was one day in Washington, 1). C., during the W’orld War. I was walking through Statuary Hall, and there was the face of Frances E. W’illard, the famous temperance leader, in marble.” Judge Knapp’s memories include many stirring and eventful days pioneering in the Far West, as he obeyed Horace Greeley’s advice early in life. He finds the Miami sunshine congenial and intends al ways to live there. On each Thursday of the week the club holds a s ecial meeting at the First Christian Church. After n short business s -ssion, there is n program— and such a program! James Silver, whose hair matches his name, but whose face is as young as April, and his carriage as jaunty, is j entertainment chairman and pro vides the programs. Mr. Silver is a retired vaudeville actor, having been on the stage for more than fifty years. Since the club was organized, sev en weddings have taken place among club members, and on the walls of the clubrooms are pictures of more than thirty couples who have been married more than forty-five years. In the 1,243 members there are but five “bachelor girls.” A group of members all more than 85 years of age had their pictures taken recently on the beach. In this picture is J. L. Ponder, an ex- Confederate veteran, formerly of Forsyth, Ga. Mr. Ponder has lived in Miami for ten years. When the club was visited recently, Mr. Pond er was deep in a game of “five hun dred.” He says he intends to learn bridge. One of his checker compan ions is an old Union soldier, and he says that they get along fine. Mr. Ponder was with John McLaw, "at the right of Pickett,” he explained. Honorary members of the club in clude Thomas A. Edison and John D. Rockefeller. The late Howard P. Taft was also an honorary mem ber. In fact, as the constitution of the club states, “Some of the great est achievements and most benefi cent deeds have been wrought by people past 70 years of age, and the general necessity and value of good old men and women in every com munity is recognized.” And who are we, who are younger, to deny this undeniable statement? Brown ing, putting it a bit more poetically, remarked: “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be the last of life for which the first was plan ned.” All of Florida has its hat off to the Three Score and Ten Club of Miami. Many elderly people are watching the calendar and counting the days until they will be 70 and eligible to membership. For then the real fun begins. At intervals, club members enjoy dances when old-time square dances and Virginia reels are enjoyed along with modern steps. There is a chorus of club members, called in all good fun, the synthetic chorus. At least it’s not a choir invisible or in audible, for there are many excellent voices to “make a joyful noise.” As sembly singing is popular, and the old-fashioned songs are favorites. Amqng the Georgia folk who are members of the club are Mrs. Hanna M. Owen, Mrs. Harriet' Marks, At lanta, and Mrs. Carrie Paul. The club is non-political and non sectarian. A meeting was in pro gress recently when a message came from another meeting then in ses sion. Those attending this second meeting were praying that the Flori da house of representatives would not override the governor’s veto on the horse racing bill. They invited the old folks to get down on their knees and pray likewise. The Three Score and Ten Club sent back word that it had no interest in politics and that its members did their praying individually and in private. Joseph W. Dodge, formerly of Ohio, a retired contractor, apologiz ed for having to stop and put his glasses on when he was showing some records in fine print. Then he gave us a typewritten copy of the following, which others might also enjoy: “If depressed, read the Ninety first Psalm. “If your heart is glad, read the Hundred and Third Psalm. “If your pocketbook is empty, read the Thirty-seventh Psalm. “If people seem unkind, read the Fifteenth Chapter of John. “If discouraged about your work, read the One Hundred and Twenty sixth Psalm. “If you are losing faith in man, read the Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians. “If you can’t have your own way in everything, keep silent and read the Third Chapter of James.” Iron Is Needed In Our Blood The iron supply for children on an ordinary diet is probably below their requirement. This was point ed out recently in a study of the iron requirement of a child two years and seven months old done in the Nutrition Laboratory of Colum bia University under the direction of l)r. Mary S. Rose. This experiment is of special interest because it is the only measure of the iron needed for children from the age of two to five known. This child received the following food for the twelve day experiment al period. Milk, Wheatena, orange juice and toast for breakfast. Milk, mashed English peas, baked potato and prunes at eleven o’clock; milk at two o’clock and milk, wheatena, prunes and toast for supper. Moth ers probably think a child would not eat the same thing for twelve days but generally it is the mother who influences the child’s opinion or gets tired of preparing the same food. The child would be perfectly satis fied with a regular food supply and would be better off provided his meals were adequate. Prof. Virginia Harris Harrold, of the Home Economics Division of the Georgia State College of Agricul ture, says: “This diet contains our outstanding sources of iron; prunes, peas, potatoes whole grain cereals with milk to aid the body in making the best possible use of the iron. But even with these valuable iron bearing foods the child did not have enough to supply her needs during the the experiment. How inade quate, in comparison, must the ordi nary child’s diet be who happens to be fed white cereals and fruits and vegetables not especially rich in iron. A child is born with a store of iron in his body that supplies his needs at least until he is six months old. At that time his milk diet is usually re enforced with egg yolk, vegetable juices, prune juice and meat juices. If this is not done he becomes pale, sickly and malnourished when his store of iron is exhausted.” The growing child needs a bountiful supply of this food iron to prevent anemia and to build his blood, tissues and healthy body. A mother can best supply this by including every day in his diet, an egg yolk, a green vegetables (turnip greens, spinach, string beans), whole grain cereals, potato and a quart of milk, with prunes, or dates, or figs and meat juices once or twice a week. Since the iron supply for the average rural family in Georgia has been found to be 83 per cent below the standard, and since this recent experiment sets the child’s standard requirement even higher than before, it makes a serious dietary deficiency for the youth of the state. THIS ENGLISH We’ll begin with box; the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox should be oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of mouse should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse, or a whole nest of mice, But the plural of man is always call ed men Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen? The cow in the plural may be called cows, or kine; But a bow, if repeated, is never call ed bine; And the plural of vow is vows, never vine. If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth? If the singular’s this, and the plural is these Should the plural of kiss ever be written keese? Then one may be that, and the two would be those, Yet that in the plural would never be hose. And the plural of cat is cats, and not cose. We speak of a brother, and also of brethren, i But though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim! So the English, I think you all will agree, Is the funniest language you ever did see. —Selected. S' /) -y n ' ./K C' c o \et's cut through this welter of words \\V P l ' <.rf- 'A' ■■ g WHEN you set out to buy tires, don’t you really want the most miles and the utmost in safety at the lowest possible price. That being your objective, which tire should you buy? If the experience of 20,000,000 mo torists means anything, you should certainly buy Goodyears. But if you try to puzzle through the welter of statistics on thick nesses, weights and diam eters you lose the main issue and are as much at sea as ever. The one and only reliable guide for you to follow is the seasoned preference of the public. And that preference is over whelmingly for Goodyear. J There’s the only buying guide that means anything to you car owners. G O O I 1 E A R ALL-WEATIER st^ e ’ Other sizes in proportion reputation? Jefferson, Georgia. MORE PEOPLE RIDE ONI GOODYEAR TIRES THAN. ON ANY OTHER KINDI NOTICE OF LOCAL BILLS Notice is hereby given, as requir ed by law, that the following locals bills will be introduced at this ses sion of the General Assembly of Georgia; Viz. 1. An act to amend an act creat ing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Jackson County, approved December 18th, 1901, and all acts amandatory there of, providing for the annual salary to be paid the chairman of the Board of Roads and Revenues of Jackson County, and for other pur poses. 2. An act to amend an act cre ating the City Court of Jefferson, approved November 30th, 1897, and all acts amandatory thereof, provid ing for the annual salary to be paid the Judge and Solicitor of said Court, and for other purposes. This the 29th day of June, 1931. Renew Your Health by Purification Any physician will tell you that “Perfect Purification of the System is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect Health.” W r hy not rid yourself of chronic ailments that are undermin ing your vitality? 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