Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
FAT MAN GETS HIS;
 AN OBJECT OF PITY
Minneapolis Journal)

This section of the newspaper has stood up for the fat man when hands and voices have been raised against him-and will continue so to do. Some times it is not so much his fault as it is that of his ancestry.
 The only fat men who are opposed are those who refuse to take such measures of reduction as the simple and proper device of chasing them selves for few blocks before break fast or taking the column doctors pre- scription of somersaults. The fat man who does these things should soon come down somewhere towards nor nal" There will be exceptions.
 The fat man is usually a good citi- zen. but now and then you meet fat man who is q bad man. One of them is in jail at Steibenville, O.. and the other prls lrers Go not love hlul any more.
 Twenty of thsse convicts had an es- cape from the Jefferson county jail all dCFed out, anl as the fat prisoner was jelly and oooular before the attempt was made, he was allowed to lead the procession.
 Never againl
 s. G. Strahan was the fat man. and he is still in jail. He is spoken of in the dispatches as corpulent.H The prison guards happened to look up at the prison wall and, to their surprise, they saw two fat legs waving around from big hole in the wall. The sound of smothered profanity accompanied the exercise The guards rushed in and collared a fat man who was wedged in the hole and who had in his hands a useless rope made of blankets with which he had proposed letting himself down to the United States when once through the hole Fortu-t nately for the discipline of the prison, Strahan couldn't quite worm his bay window through the large opening in the wall.
 Nineteen tother disappointed prison CTS voiced their lack of love for a fat man.
 The next time in that jail, the hu- man umbrella gets the first chance at any breach in the wall and the others follow in the order of their weight in the community of prisoners.
 When Colonel Roosevelt was having fine time as president of the United States his pernicious activity around the war office developed lot of fat cavalry officers who had forgotten that there might ever again be war and who had devoted themselves to the pleasures of the table, letting the United States get along as it might in a defenseless condition so. far as their efforts at keeping fit went,
 The president never did thing but devote his energy to getting these boys upon the upper decks of horses again. It was a crime against fat hu- manity. These fat officers had grown more accustomed to the swivel chair than to the saddle, and the suffering they went through in carrying out the orders of the president is only com parable to the sufferings of fat men in Flanders today-if there are such. The censorship happily conceals from us the misadventures of the fat men there
 Your human hoe handle can stand much and come out fit and hungry. He does not know what it Is to be sad dle sore and mad at the world, Pres ident Roosevelt actually made these fat cavalry officers take 100-mile rides across. country, now and then jumping fences where the horses would stand for it without Becoming legged in their backs. The practice tithered up lot of swivel chair warmers like sausages placed over a hot fire, and they came out of the ordeal with opin- ions of the president that were not fit for publication
 The thin soldier may smile at the fat man on horseback. for he has little conception of the utter misery en- dured both by man and beast For tunately for the corpulent officers, the cavalry branch has fallen into consid- erable disuse in this war.