The Washington times., 1922-08-28

Join the M. A. M. T. p. c,
Live Long, Be Well ,
No Dues. Cheap RegaIia
Also, Perhaps, Prizes

Also, Perhaps, Prizes
il-By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. ls22)
Men from fifty to eighty, do
you want to live longer, more
usefuliy, with better health,
greater comfort, and render a
public service at the same time?
II so, organize in your neigh
borhood a branch of the M. A. M.
and T. p. C.
That means the "Middle-Aged
Mowers and Tree Planters
Club"
The motto of the club is "Use-
1ulness and health no nom
sense"
The necessary regalia for COM
plete membership is one brush
+ nook, one scythe, one pickaxe,
one good shovel.
Any costume will do, the
palmer the better-overalls and
straw hat preferred.
There are no dues; the club is
100 per cent public service.
You need not travel miles and
wait your turn at a golf club.
Take your scythe and brush
hook, go along the public road
near by, or, if you live in town,
motor out to the nearest agri-
cultural region, park your car,
and along the roadside, outside
and off of private property, cut
down weeds and useless, WORTH
less bushes.
You NOW the weeds with
your scythe, cut down the
bushes with the brush hook,
An upward jerk of the hook
does the work. If you don't
understand a scythe, go slowly
and cautiously. Learn to cut
a wide swath, swinging the
body from side to side with
the hips as a pivot. Keep the
butt end of the blade on the
ground as you swing it, and
the point upward. Beginners
are apt to dig the point into
the ground and bend a few
blades at first.
While you are learning,
you'd better use the brush
hook for moving also. Change
to the scythe when you get the
swing. The hook is not ruined
as easily as the scythe.
Cutting down weeds along
the road will cause farmers to
bless you. Cutting them in
summer prevents the seeds
ripening and blowing over the
farmers land to plague him
next year.
If the weeds are very thick,
poor people will gather them
for bedding in their stables,
and they also will thank you.
If very public spirited, you can
buy few pounds of mixed clover
and timothy and scatter it over
the ground where you cut down
the weeds. The next year you
may resume your activity there
and cut down real grass, leaving
it for those that need it to gather
up and take home.
In the fall, when the weeds
have been cut down or gone to
seed, start your tree-planting
career. The agricultural depart
ment nearest to you, State or
the national Agricultural De-
partment, will supply free in
formation about planting trees
and where to buy them.
Plant preferably fruit trees.
In the beginning the public would
take the fruit green and break
the branches. But if there were,
as there ought to be, a hundred
thousand miles of public roads in
the United States lined with
fruit trees, the public would re-
spect the trees and the planters.
When you have found how a
tree should be planted and have
selected your trees, put a little
bunch of them in your car or on
your back and set forth to your
planting work.
A bunch of fruit or shade
trees carried on your back is at
least as respectable as a bunch
of golf clubs, and not rs heavy.
After you have planted the
trees, take care of them. And
now the answer to the Ameri-
can question. "Where do I
come in?"
You come in as follows: The
best exercise in the world, with
one single exception, is moving.
The mower moving slowly
does not tire the heart. Swing
ing back and forth, bent over,
he exercises the abdominal mus
cles, puts life into the intes-
final tract, which gets sluggish
and poisons you as you get old.
Exercising the muscles that
stretch across the front of the
body eats away the fat that
piles up there, making old age
slow, ridiculous, ugly.
By moving, YOU get thirsty.