The Washington times., 1917-03-02
81 WALK TO WORK"
CAMPAIGN OPENED
New "a. w. W." Propaganda
Aims at Better Health for
Sedentary Workers. -,
By JOHN d. HUBER, A. n. NJ. d.

An I. w. w. propaganda TO which
nobody can take exception has been
started by Commissioner Haven EN-
erson, OF the metropolitan health de-
partment OF New York city, and DR..
Charles F. Bolduan, the very efficient
head of its bureau OF public health
education. 81 walk to work." q mile
at least to work and o mile at least
home, is the idea And why should
not this movement extend to all of us
toilers and the unoccupied alike; why
should we not all Of US "get q move
on?"
How many OF the ills to which our
flesh Is heir, or which our kind has
Just perversely taken upon itself, how
much cantankerousness would vanish
like the morning mists IL every house
wife and every sedentary occupation
ist would do day by day their several
miles In the open. How very likely
would domestic relations courts go
out Of business, how many a marital
encounter would be avoided were the
habit developed of going out doors to
cool on, regularly and for an hour at
least OF the day into the sunshine.
DIR. Finley q Walker.
A strong backer OF this movement
Is DR.. John H. Finley present New
York State commissioner of education,
and himself some considerable walker,
When DR.. Finley was president of the
College of the City of New oYrk it
was just an agreeable jaunt for him
TO cover the whole coast of Manhat.
tan island, beginning with Inwood,
then along the Hudson river front to
the Battery, and then up the East
river and the Harlem to his starting
point.
Why, not so very long ago DR.. Fin
ley did his thirty miles in nine hours;
In the night time, too, when pretty
much all the rest OF us were asleep.
He started from Elizabeth, N. J., and
ended up in Princeton for breakfast.
A fine example for his students and
one that could have been set only by
q man sound In body and in mind-a
piece of work rather rarer In these
days of trolleys and devil wagons than
In the very efficient footwork times
when Caesars legions traversed Gaul
and Hannibal crossed the Alps and the
relief was brought to Lucknow.
DR.. Newton and Weston.
Then there 10 DIR. Richard Cole
Newton of Montclair. N J.. who ad-
mits threescore years and who has
done his little turn Of ninety miles
in twenty-four hours. from Newark
to North Philadelphia, making four
stops, at Elizabeth, New Brunswick
Princeton and Trenton. for food and
refreshments, and coming on no
worse than for several blisters on
his feet"
And weston-Edward Payson wes-
ton. who when he was twenty-seven
walked from Portland, Me-. to Chicago
and then just forty years after did
the same stunt. and in twenty-nine
hours less time, finishing with a step
as sprightly as at the beginning. 1.-The
and sturdy for all his sixty-odd years.
his wind so good that while jogging
on he kept chaffing those who found
II difficult to keep up with him be-
yond a short distance. During his
trip he kept sending in to the news
papers crisp, bright and interesting
COPY, showing that his headwork
was keeping even pace with his foot
work. He ate frequently. as often as
he was hungry. An egg beaten up In
coffee was his favorite refreshment.
Noted Men walkers.
Samuel johnson tramped through
the Hebrides for all his scrofula. Ollie
Goldsmith was for years a wayfarer
throughout Europe. Mark Twain
tramped abroad-whenever be couldn't
get a hitch or take a boat. Blaikte
In his immortal book. How to Get
Strong and How to Stay &c." in the
last of many editions as well as In
the first, maintained walking to be
the best of all exercise. "Give me-
quoted Stevenson from Hazlitt. the
clear blue sky over my head and the
green turf beneath my feet. winding
road before me and three-hours
march; and then to thinking Where
at poor sick Robert Louis, who could
appreciate but could not enjoy such
qualification, "And he must have q
winding road. the epicure"'
In other generations men thought
nothing of a thirty-mile jaunt. Fol
Dickens II was just freshener' Jus,
L..-.., nf fresh air And