Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-12

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health and fitness to serve of a
presidential candidate is hence
forth to be considered in weighing
the merits of the man--for of what
importance are the views and poll
cies of a candidate unless he is fit
to carry them through? For eX-
ample, what effect would it have
had on history if Napoleon had not
persisted in eating himself to death
and if Woodrow Wilson had adj
hered at all times to a rigid policy
of two miles of oxygen on the hoof
three times a day or some equiva-
lent scheme of keeping up health
and keeping down blood pressure 4!
Those Morning Exercises.
one way, and an important way,
in which sedentary seventy per-
centers may learn how to enjoy
good health is by daily exercises. !
didn't ask Senator Harding wheth-
err he bathes every month or every
summer. ! assume he bathes when
he feels the need for a bath, That
is a question not properly within
my province as a health specialist.
Bathing is merely a matter of per-
sOnal comfort and | cannot see
where it concerns personal health.
But | did ask him whether he takes
any exercise on rising in the morn
ing or at any other time in tho
day. He informed me that he does,
sometimes, or maybe when he has
the time or when he feels so in
clined or something like that.
Anyhow, it was obvious that morn
ing exercises are to Senator Hard
ing as Saturday night bath is TO
real boy. Another urgent reason
why a health secretary should be
added to the senator's staff. He
needs someone with a scientific
knowledge of physical training 20
put him through his PAGES every
day, rain or shine.
OF course / realize that a presi-
Dental candidate is not training for
a prize fight or a Marathon race,
Nor am l suggesting simply the
which ordinary sedentary
men or brain workers find most
effective in maintaining the highest
degree of health-not muscular
but just good condition
and endurance. A presidential
surely needs all the vim,
vigor. pep and endurance he can
have in order to finish his cam
paign in good order or even TO carry
it through with success. If his own
friends cannot convince him of the
wisdom of regular daily walks, golf
or some equivalent health-conser-
walton, he can at least give fifteen
minutes a day to some mild gym
nastic exercises which may be car
ried out in his room morning or
night or both morning and night,
Every one living sedentary life
requires some such health habit to
keep him from going to seed. One
my not realize how we'll il pays TO
follow some simple daily regimen
of physical training for better
health and vigor until one has ac
duired this wholesome habit as de-
finitely as one has the habit of
brushing the teeth or sleeping with
the windows open. 1t doesn't take
a great deal of such simple physi-
cal training to make an optimist of
a man. | should estimate that
three months of fifteen minutes-a-
day exercise regimen will enable
the average individual already in
fair health to enjoy good health.
And in saying this l certainly do
not mean to imply that physical
culture is cure for any disease
1t merely puts the plus sign on such
health as you already have-health /
plus pep, if you know what that
means.
1t is just as l feared when l read |
in the newspapers about this front |
porch campaign. Senator Harding |
is in dire need. What he needs is
a little more oxygen, and there are |
wads of it all around Marion. All !
he has to do is go out and help |
himself | do hope he will find |
time to absorb his share of 1t before !
the campaign becomes too warm.
tThe End.) 500 ~ !