The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-05-19
FOURTH INSTALLMENT.
TRAINING THE BODY

bAAttASt WIN QPSk TaTner rnAn
neid experience. intrigued with their
friends in Congress TO have the order
anhuIled. So one day / took a ride
OF little over one hundred miles my.
sell, In company with Surgeon-Gen.
eral Rixey and two other officers. The
virginia roads were frozen and In
RUS. and In the afternoon and even.
ing there was a storm OF snow and
sleet: and when II had been thu.
eAperimentally shown, under unfav.
orable conditions. how easy II was
10 do In one day the task for which
the army officers were allowed three
days. all open objections ceased. But
some bureau chiefs still did as much
under-handed work against the order
as they dared. and II was often diff.
CUT 10 reach them. In the Marine
Corps. Captain Leonard. who had lost
an arm at Tientsin. with two OF his
lieutenants. did the fifty mile in one
day: for they were vigorous young
men. who laughed al the idea OF
treating a fifty-mile walk as over.
fatiguing Well. the Navy Depart.
| ment officials rebuked them. and
made them take the walk over again
in three days. on the ground that talk.
ing IL in one day did not comply with
the regulations This seems unbe-
| lievable: but Leonard assures me II
Is true. He did not inform me AZ
the time. being afraid to get in
wrong" with his permanent supek
| Tors. II had known OF the order
short work would have been made
OF the bureaucrat who issued IT,
/ In no country with an army worth
calling such is there chance for a
man physically unfit TO stay in tho
service. Our countrymen should un.
/ derstand that every army officer
and every marine officer-should be
summarily removed from the service
unless he Is able to undergo far Sc
verer tests than those which. as a
B beginning. l imposed. To follow any
other course is to put a premium on
slothful incapacity. and 20 do the
gravest wrong TO the nation.
/ have mentioned all those expert
cnces. and ! could mention scores OF
others. because cut OF them grew my
| philosophy Of bodily visor as a meth
( cd OF getting that vigor of soul with
out which visor Of the body counts
for nothing. The dwellcr in cities has
less chance than the dweller in the
country TO keep his body sound and
vigorous. But he can do so. ~ only
he Will take the trouble ANY young
, lawyer. shopkeeper or clerk. or shop
assistant can keep himself in good
condition II he tries Some ~ the
best men who have ever served under
me in the National Guard end in my
regiment were former clerks or floor
walkers. Why Johnny Hayes. the
Marathon victor. and AZ one time
world champion. one OF my valued
friends and supporters. was a floor
walker In Bloomingdale big depart.
ment store. Surely with Johnny
Hayes as an example. any young man
/ IN city can hope TO make his body
all that a vigorous mans body should
BE-
] once made speech 10 which !
gave the title The Strenuous Life"
Afterwards / published a volume of
essays With this for a title. There
were two traASlations 81 II which al.
ways especially pleased me one was
hy Japanese soldier who knew Eng.
lsh We'll and who had carried the
'esay all through the Mauchurian
campaign. and later translated IL for
No" benefit 81 his countrvmen. The
other VAS BY an italian lady. whose
brother. an officer IN the Italian army
g no had died OF duty in a foreign
land had also greatly liked IN. ar.
tel" and carried ~ round with him
ln TRANSMITTING the title tho lady rem
G"r"d ~ 10 Italian as "Nigor III Vita ''
] thought this translation a great i'm.
rOv"mcnt on the original. and have
always wished that had myself used
tn" Nigor OF Life" a. a heading 90
indicate what ] wds trying TO preach.