White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-12

WHITE PINE NEWS
1t nevertheless is the observation of
everyone that the gamer of sudden
wealth is the equally quick victim of
the reaper, who seems to specialize
on the ones who sit down at the
time of life when their yeomail
fathers were working. Get rich
quickly and die quickly. That IS the
fact which everyone must admit is
the rule, and a person does not have
TO be a doctor to sec and call atten-
ton to the truth of it. So it is only
the rarest of exceptions where . man
who was bred to labor in middle or
early life contradicts nature and per-
mits the marshaling Of the forces OF
his deadliest of bodily foes-obesity
that his days are not shortened.
1t is the same with the boy from
the farm, whose early home teaching
was tuned to the single scale that
education must be his early ambition
and winner of life ~sustenance, lead
ing inevitably to sedentary pursuits
and corpulence. His days are short
ened beneath those of his ancestors
and if he breaks the rule and exceeds
their limit it is because science has
been exerted beyond the ordinary for
his special case, and indeed he should
profit therefrom far more than he
does.
Perhaps there is no more notable
instance than that of the late presi-
dent, who died of shocking sudden
ness in the prime of his years, from
causes plainly within these descrip-
lions. His aged father still survives,
this by reason of the %spareness Of
his physique, tending to ward off the
physically strong but ~hygienically
weak son. Financial prosperity, ed
u~cation for sedentary pursuits and
the swivel chair life of a linotype OPP.
orator, with arm exercise only. then
editorial chair occupant, finally bank
director and political officeholder, all
overtaxing brain work with under
exertion of the body and limbs. and
Warren G. Harding falls a victim in
middle life of the times, when with
the same conditions under which DR..
George T. Harding his lived and en-
ercised, the dead president, with the
added advantages of the results of
modern scientific research, might
have reached eighty-five or ninety,
yet probably would neve have been
senator president or ever heard Of,
but longevity is the subject OF this
discussion, not political distinction
or personal fame.
In contrast with the physically
reactiye weakness of Mr.. Harding IS
the tested endurance of the spare
built Woodrow Wilson. who thus far
has survived se%veralfold greater bod
,ly trials than his illustrious success
or, and no better reason can be shown
than the ex-president's lack of an
overplus or surplus of fat in the body
| The automobile does not do its
greatest violence to human life by
running people down or turning over
on them Regardless of the deaths it
is piling up in these manners, its
greater toll is through denying men
and women exercise for their bodies
and limbs. Today everybody rides
and exertion is pennance to be alb
horred, If a mar walks he must be
poor indeed. Nothing else in his
daily life calls his muscles into ac-
ton. OF the family the driver alone
gets that physical culture for arms
and shoulders, but not for lower mus
cles and limbs that goes with hand
ling the steering wheel. If it is two
blocks to town or to what nowadays
is called work, it is step on the start
err and land at the door of the light
employment in ease. If it happens
that the driver is above the working
class in worldly affairs it is drive tc
and fro, yet no work and no exercise.
There was a day wher the ones
kept down their weight by horseback
riding-the best exercise ever in
vented-but today that is forgotten.
All anyone knows today, rich or Of
moderate means, is limousines, start
ers. deep upholstery, the least jar
ring of springs and miles per hour.
In spite Of all that research, germ
isolation and surgery can do, modern
thought and habit are doing nearly
If not quite as much to defeat its
each and every attainment, and life
is not being heightened in more than
a fraction of the ratio that it should
be.
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