The Pensacola journal., 1917-07-22
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TRAINING
To Prevent BREAKDOWN, 25
Cabinet Officers, ETC.,
Take Camp Course.
TRAINING WILL
LAST THREE MONTHS
Fat Men Hope to Get Thin
and Thin, Fat; Should
Keep Fit, Says Camp.
Washington Bureau,
The Pensacola Journal.

Ihe PensacOla journal
Washington, D, c., july 21.-
Stand out at the corner of Nineteenth
and streets, just two blocks west
of the White House and the state,
war and navy departmnts any morn
ing from about 7:15 to 7:30 and you'll
see all the members of President Viii
sons cabinet with their first assis-
tants and the heads of the important
federal commissions come walking
briskly down the street singly and
in two's and three's with chests out,
and stomachs and chins pulled in.
And perchance the president and
President Marshall will come
along, and Speaker Champ Clark or
"Uucle 10" Cannon.
About midway down the block they
will duck through the back gate Of
the big White House on the corner
with the acre and half of side and
back yard, the home of the Hon. Viii
liam Kent, of California, millionaire,
former member of congress and now
a member of the tariff commission.
Whether they come singly-- or in
groups, you'll be struck by the
briskness of their step and the erect
ness of their carriage. What will at
tract you most if they come in two's
and three's will be the absence of
the serious demeanor you would ex-
pect from men holding positions of
such great Importance at this time
when the United States is waging
the greatest war IN its history. They
will approach joking, smiling and
laughing like group OF school boys
out for a lark.
Loiter- around a few minutes more
and you'll see about 25 of the men
holding the highest positions in the
administration come out through the
back gate, minus coats, collars and
hats and the smart business suits
they wore but a fw minutes before,
but now wearing tennis or tan army
marching shoes and duck or khaki
trousers.
Away they will go at lively clip
southwark, striking off into Potomac
Park two blocks further along for
a brisk run, stopping occasionally at
the command of their leader to take
deep breathing exercises.
They are undergoing Walter
Camps physical training stunts for
flabby and over-worked business
men, and they are enjoying it to a de-
gree far in excess of. any of the
claims made for the system by Mr..
Camp, the famous physical trainer of
Yale University and noted authority
on all lines of athletics.
The plan for putting the men upon
whose shoulders rests the work and
responsibility for the conduct of the
war in the highest degree of physi-
cal fitness to withstand the enoT-
NOUS strain of these war times has
been in operation only ten days but
already there is a noticeable improve
ment in the appearance of the squad.
Already Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo and other string bean"
members of the squad have begun to
put on the solid flesh that comes
from we'll taken outdoor exercises,
while the 'pudgy" members like
Secretary Lane have taken up anoth
er notch in their belts and that sec
ond and third chin in melting away.
Walter Camp claims that in sixty
days he'll have them all in tip-tOp
fighting trim and in the pink of
condition. Every member of the
cabinet physical training class is de
lighted with the results and express
es his determination to stick il out,
The idea of putting the cabinet
members and high officials in Wash
ington in tip top fighting trim dur
ing these days when a breakdown
from mental exhaustion and lack of
exercise might result in disrupting
the organism of enc of the import
ant federal departments originated
with Walter Camp
He tried the experiment on one
hundred professors of Yale and tired
middle-aged and old business men Of
New Haven with such highly bene>
ficial results that he resolved it
would be an excellent thing for. the
members of the cabinet who might
collapse from overwork if they wen:
entirely without physical exercise.
Walter Camp wrote to Mr.. Kent. a
graduate of Yale and Secretary Nc
Adoo in the spring telling them Of
the beneficial results that had fol-
lowed a course of training he had
given a group of one hundred Yale
professors and New Haven business
men, and suggested it would be