World’s 100 Most Useful Men aid Women

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 18

World’s 100 Most Useful Men aid Women

America Names 90 and Seeks 10 More . . . Great Britain’s Quota ■ HO are the hundred most useful people in the The Centenarian Club of America (which aims at teaching folk to live happily and healthily for more than 100 years) has set itself the task of compiling such a list. So far it has managed to find only 90 people worthy of inclusion, and suggestions are invited for 10 more to complete the list. Its failure to reach the three-figure mark (says one English commentator) is not surprising when it is considered that 64 of the 90 places are allotted to Americans; the rest of the world is generously given the remaining 26. In this uncompleted hall of lame, eight niches are reserved for Great Britain —one Briton for every eight Americans.

These have been filled as follows: Lady Astor: “American-born member of the British Parliament.” Sir W. T. Grenfell; “Medical mis- • sionary to Labrador.” Sir Robert Hadfield: “Steel-maker and humanitarian.” Dean Inge: “Who promotes the idea of rationalism among the clergy.” Sir Arthur Keith; “Biologist, who is doing most to make humans' understand their bodies scientifically.” Ramsay MacDonald. George Bernard Shaw. J. H. Thomas: “Intelligent Labour leader.” Italy (Marconi, Mussolini and the Pope) and France (Madame Curie, Briand and Poincare) follow next in order of merit; Germany, with Eckener of Graf Zeppelin fame and Anton Lang of the Oberammergau Passion Play has two, and 10 other countries have one each. They include Gandhi, the Indian mystic; Mustapha Kemal; President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; General Smuts; Ibn Saud, the Arabian ruler, and Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian explorer.