The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-12
iROTAR|ANS CALLED
FOOLS BY DOCTOR
AND NOT OFFENDED
TAFT'S PHYSICIAN TELLS 'EM TO
TAKE rNERClSE AND LIVE
LONGER AND BETTER

Rotarians who neglect their physical
health by not taking proper exercise
while chasing oily and other dollars
more or less elusive We're called Tools
by DR.. Charles Il. Barker at the lunch
con today, and they refused TO be or
Tended. Dr. Barker, who was the per
sonal physician of William Howard
Taft during the latter's occupancy of
the presidency and before that when
Mr.. Taft was secretary of war, In his
lecture at the chautauqua tonight Will
tell Rotary fools and other fools just
how they should exercise every day in
order to be more efficient, live longer
and not leave their widows to be picked
up, along with their money, by men
who haven't been such fools.
Dr. Barker made the premier hit of
the season at the Rotary board. lie
told how Mr.. Taft, through proper eN-
ercise, one hour every day except sun
days, reduced his overweight by IS
pounds. strengthened u very bad heart
and kept himself in trim to perform
the hardest work any man on earth
has to do-the daily duties of the presi.
dency of the United States. The doc
tOi llSp llON al tllul NidlAI l'tiNIlib
retail jeweer of Washington, caught
pneumonia and died at Al because he
refused to take daily exercise calculat-
ed to fend off diseases, leaving u beau
tiful young widow and $275O00, to be
annexed a few years later by an emi.
nent citizen named Woodrow Wilson.
incidentally Dr. Barker stated that
he is going to the forthcoming conven,
tion of international Rotary at salt
Lake City to deliver n lecture on sex
hygiene He said that in his belief
sex matters should be taught to child |
rem by their parents and not in the
lower.grade schools.
"Highwayman" Speaks
An interesting talk was made by |
Henry Wood, whose home is at Mus !
kogee but who was introduced by Ro.
tartan Don Cochran as highway com.
missioner or highwayman of the state
of Oklahoma" As state highway com
missioner Mr.. Wood assured Carter
county that he stands willing and eager
to do anything possible to advance
the cause of good roads in this coun-
ty. He mentioned the fact that ST.
500 600 of federal highway aid for Ok
lahoma still remains unplaced and the
applause indicated that Carter county
will help to place any of the fund
which seems to be going a-begging.
Mr.. Wood suggested what a blessing
It would be to Ardmore just now and
in the future if the road between here
and Healdton We're improved property.
He called ii u 30-cents.a.ton road in its
|
or concrete road would carry traffic
At 10 cents a mile per ton.
Superintendent Teagarden of the
was introduced as one of
he club guests. Other guests intro
iuced We're County Commissioner Tay-
or, Col. Sidney Suggs, Manager w. A.
Palmer of the D-C-D highway project ,
Secretary f. Il. Henderson of the Gain
'sville Chamber of Commerce, Manager
4. X. Shine of the Retail Merchants
association at Gainesville. NIessrs. VIII
lis, Jamison and McMury. D-C-D =
boosters, and Mr.. Custer of New York !,
The latter was introduced by Rotarian ,
Johnson as being here to find chair L.
nen and workers in four counties. in
Guiding Carter, for the American >.
'ranch of the movement to aid devas, fl
ated France.
Rotarians and their guests enjoyed h
cry keenly two vocal solos by Miss n
Iyda Booth, a native Ardmore girl IA
whose voice evinces high cultivation. e
liss Booth, accompanied on the piano u
" Miss Anne Thompson, sang Little g,
lother of Mine" and Song of the
oul."
1920 Chautauqua Guaranteed
Secretary James Barron read a reso- q
ltion, which was adopted unanimous c
Y. pledging the Rotary club to guar (
ntee one.half of the sum necessary ,
D have return chautauqua engage c
'ent next year, with the understanding h
nat the Lions Club is to guarantee the
ther half
Or. Barker, who sat across the table,
that three years ago Mr. Bar :,
on, when he lived in Chicago was a,
ar from being the robust specimen nj
physical manhood he is at present. ~
Ut he heard u Barker lecture on the ~
Importance of taking exercise and
eeded the advice -
incidentally Or. Barker complimented
lie Presbyterian ladies upon their food
nd cooking, saying that in Chicago
ie feeders of the Rotarians can put
n the tables more swell silver and
IS food than he has found at any 9th
r Rotary luncheon. Or. Barker is
\ honorary life member of the san