Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-14

* attends a voyage" from Paris to
- London, the long preparations. the
prolonged farewells, the will making and the
nppointment of personal agent necessary
before a Frenchman takes his life in his hand
and boldly crosses the English Channel, one
nav in part appreciate what the Distin-
guished Stranger, guest Of the nation, feels
as he is whisked from one side to the other
of this broad continent. 1t is like kind OF
prolonged vertigo that only strong con-
stitution survives.
To take petit dejeuner in New York and
dejeuner in Washington appears to- for
e,gner like a. marvellous feat, while to dine
one night in the capital and the next IN
Pittsburgh is to write for ones SELF new
thousand and second night
Marshal Foch is our most recent guest to
wonder at the swiftness of America His
days and nights of travel, his brief sojourns
in various cities for banquets, receptions
and other events of which he has been the
shining figure, must appear to him in retro
spect kind of wild phantasmagoria. He
has described it as such, though not In so
many words And what appears to him
more strange is that we Americans take this
"tohu- bohu" as a matter Of course.
Mad Dash From City to City
Seems Strange Occupation
Life in a railway train, even the most
luxurious, offers no charms to the great
French strategist. To dash from city to
city. to sleep in different hotels on successive
nights. even to hurry from one section or
quarter to another in town without pause,
without relaxation, seems to him an extraor-
binary occupation, especially in times o.
peace.
And his wonder grows when he hears that
there are Americans who spend their lives
doing something like this. Evidently they
impress Marsha Foch ike strange species
1t is the exceptional, of course that stran-,
gers always see and on which they write
their singular impressions du voydge. we
Americans are not always on the go, al
though all of our passenger coaches going
anywhere seem always to be filed. There
are individuals who hurry back and forth
from coast to coast with no impelling
reason of business or even inclination, but
they are not representative. good many OF
us-a majority-"stay put" in either place II
It happens to be our home.
Yet in the exaggerated idea of American
restlessness, American hustle and swiftness
carried away by foreigners who do not, as
Is Marshal Foch's case, speak our language
there Is considerable truth We are rest
less. unauiet, hurrying people.
We run the pace that kills.
Is this true?
Is the American pace too swift and are we
damaging health by keeping 1t up?
Let us ask some authorities who should
be In a position to know. Let us ask first
NJ all some famous neurologists.
DIR. Bernard Sachs Is neurologist re-
markable among other things for the con-
servatiye cast of his mind. He Is not an
alarmist in his wide practice, and he studies
new symptoms, new theories, new condi-
tons very carefully before uttering an
opinion on them Evidently he had thought
Of the question which Marshal Fochs OBJ
servation brought up, for he said promptly:
az agree with any one who says that we
live too hard and too fast. Our rapid ways
are not beneficial to the individual and the
race. We ought to slow up"