South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-09-26

impression that. although he may
have no actual organic trOuy Die, Sen
ator Harding is not enjoying good
Iealth. This is a delicate point and
4 do not wish 70 be misunderstood.
In saying the senator does not APP
pear TO enjoy good health L do not
imply that there is anything partic-
Ularly wrong nor that the man is
physically impaired in any way. /
visited him, not as his physician but
merely as q health expert. 1 wanted
70 learn, not what disease ne has or
is likely TO have. So when / say he
apparently does not enjoy good
health L mean merely that he has
apparently not learned how 20 enjoy
the health ne has. A great many
men never learn that. Lots of peo-
pie are fairly well. in no need of q
doctor, yet not what you would call
enc hundred percent healthy. they
have their little defects, their minor
ills; in short. the majority of people
are perhaps seventy or eighty per-
cent well and cOntented to remain
so. / fear Senator Harding is Of this
class And as a general rule II IS
up 10 each individual TO determine
for himself whether he shall add
something 10 his seventy or eighty
percent of health and approach
more nearly the hundred percent
Class-learn now 10 enjoy health. for
il is certainly a constant source of
enjoyment when you have the hun
dred percent kind.
Gorge WashingtOn's High Blood
Pressure
Gen. George Washington in the
heyday OF his career would have
hunked on at least one of my tests.
The Father Of His Country was 8
inches tall and a man Of that great
stature should weigh 1876 pounds,
whereas George Washington weighed
200 pounds, and / suspect he had a
high blood pressure. too. not be
cause his face was fOrid, but be
cause the lung edema Of which he
died is terminal condition in many
of the disease states of which high
blood pressure is a sign
Napoleon at the height OF his ca
reer would have made a dismal
showing under my examination. for
his very corpulercy would undOubt-
edlv have made him fail on the
staircase test and the breath holding
test. 1t is noteworthy that the Lit
tie Corporal lost no battles until at-
ter ne got fat As early as the age
Of forty-siX Napoleon suffered peri
DDS of lethargy or lassitude and
looked prematurely old. He even
confessed 20 his intimates that he
was growing old. He died at 50. IT
is bad business growing fat.
I am afraid even Abraham Lin
coin would have passed not over 90
percent had I examined him. Lin
coin was rs inches tall ana should
have weighed 200 pounds, whereas
he weighed a bare 100. But when
assa ssinated. Lincoln was still
around IS years Of age physiologi-
cally. though SO in fact. He was
cnIv beginning 20 turn gray. al
though four years older than Napo-
leon.
OF all shining examples Theodore
Roosevelt en- bodied IN cOncep ton GA
what constitutes perfect health. Col.
Roosevelt embodied my conception or
but he made of himself
giant in his manhood. II seems 70
mo unquestiOna bic rnat his dnamlc
force. his great enthusiasm. his en-
duranCe and his intellectual Nigor
were all perfectly natural express
sions Of the mans rugged heaIth.
and further that ne attained ana
maintained that remarkable state of
health almost wholly through his
own Individual effort. l think that
Theodore Roosevelt ENJOYED good
health in the fullest sense l try 10
convey when I speak of having
health PLUS. Roosevelt's death
must be put down as an accident
merely.
When all is said and done. tho
service n great statesman or leader
IAN render his country depends
largely uDon the mans personal
health. The demands. both physl-
,al and mental. made upon the
president OF the United States in
oeace time. all the time, are IN an
-espacts as heavy as those made up
IN q great general in time of war.
n = 10 be noted with some satis-
action as an indication that health
md longevity are constantly increas-
nr with the process Of the suns.
hat Iudendorff was so. Jomre was
bout s.. Hindenburg about 20 and
Voch about IS when they became
7cId marshals-aud Napoleon wa
me ~ thirty. Nobodv knows Is vet
now great a loss America and the
civilized world have sustained I
through the physical COLLAPSE Of
President Wilson. Mr.. Wilson's
breakdown at critical time has
brought home 20 the people Of this |
country the importance OF the per |