Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-11
Copyright, 1920, Nationa
Continued from yesterday

| NIoitllueu from yesterday
l asked him just what his habits
are with regard to health, for ex-
ample. what recreation or exercise
does he take each day.
! The answer further emphasized
the need for trainer or some such
{ attendant who can make the man
consider the interests of Senator
Harding. 1t seems that his sole
health recreation is golf, and the
course being so out of the way he
can play but once a week, after an
hour or more of automobile riding
to get there and another hour to
get back. Golf may be all right as
recreation for brain workers or
sedentary folk. 1t is second only
to walking as a health conserving
habit, but 1t will not do. in weekly
doses, for man in Mr.. Harding's
place. He must get his health
conservation medicine every day if
he means to finish in good order.
l suggested that the senator
should set a regular hour, say 3
o'clock every afternoon, and sharp
ly at that hour start out for a hike
Of three to five miles. | eXtolled
this practice as the best possible
recreation and exercise. probably
the best known way of keeping
down blood pressure, and at the
same time-I thought of Theodore
Roosevelt's famous tennis cabinet
and hard hikes in the rain-at the
same time, I remarked, the news
paper men and political visitors
might go along with the senator
1t seemed to me that some such
institution would help to counter
act any unhappy effect his front
porch business may have on the
public mind.
But the senator finds it next to
impossible to break away at a set
time, although he fully agrees that
some such plan would be a great
help in maintaining his physical
fitness through the campaign. He
just can't bear to send callers away
disappointed. There you are again.
Somebody should take him in
hand. A presidential candidate
with an even chance of being elect
ed is man of the people, chosen
by the people, and 1t is his duty to
preserve his health for the people.
1t is not because Senator Hard
ing is wholly Indifferent to health
care. Indeed. he might be called
a health fan, to judge by some of
his views on health.
He TASTED Five Days.
1t Is generally known that Sena-
tor Harding's father Is physician
practicing in Marion. But he told
me that his mother. also, was a
physician, although she never en-
gagged in active practice. For the
son of a couple both physicians,
the senator has some fairly sound
notions of health conservation, If
only he would practice what he
knows. He mentioned overeating
and worry as the two chief causes
of high blood pressure--and so
they are. if tobacco is not over
looked Incidentally, it is curious
how men of affairs worry about
their blood pressure nowadays. |
One would think high blood pres
sure were some kind of a disease,
the way they talk about 1t when
they meet a doctor. 1t is hard to
make them understand that high |
blood pressure is not a disease and |
not necessarily of serious import. |
/ suspect Senator Harding worries
a little about his blood pressure, |
merely from the way he alluded to |
the factors which increase blood |
pressure. did not mean to add |
tc his worries. but took occasion |
to say that the immediate effect of |
the drug tobacco is to elevate the |
blood pressure to a greater degree |
than any other known factor, One
can imagine the senator out for a
motor ride-you will note in the |
daily news dispatches that he does |
considerable motoring-and worry
ing over his blood pressure; worry |
increases the blood pressure, to be
sure, and so--well. dear me, how
greatly he needs some one to re-
mind him to save gasoline and try |
out his hoofs for a change. If
Senator Harding has too much |
blood pressure--which would not
be surprising in man of his age
and his neglectrul habits-two or
three miles of oxygen on the hoof |
every day would work wonders. If
he has not yet developed an alb
normally high pressure then four
or five miles of oxygen on the hoof
would help burn up and dispose of
that superfluous fodder which
social amenities compel the poor
man to INCEST.
4 Speaking of overeating, fasting
and restriction Of diet, the senator