The Washington times., 1923-11-14
.H|KER RODY HAS
FOLLOWING
ALREADY
Famous Walkers Appearance
in Streets Has Brought
About New Christening.
BY GEORGE FRANKLIN.

Hike with Rody.D
II Yes, Captain Rodrigues has already
received a new christening in Wash
ington. It may shock him to know
It but there goes Rody the walker
is getting to be one Of the customary
street comments following him wher-
ever he goes.
Nobody knows where it originated.
Probably some kid inQuisitive enough
to find out who the military figure,
who has been seen around the down.
town section of the city for the past
few days, is, thus epit0mized the in
formation he received.
Hundreds of persons on the streets
have seen him. None have done so,
however, without mentally noting
the rapidly with which he moved
with so little effort. Rody the
walker" does not seemingly walk.
What he does Is to glide along. His
movement il continuous. There is
none of the hitchyness about it that
| marks the walking of the great ma
jority of persons.
Endorsed BY MacfaLden.
sRody the walker is probably
the greatest walker in the world.
Bernarr Macfadden, the great
physical culturalist Of America,
whose magazine, Physical Culture,
Is read by thousands, has 4 ;tro-
nounced him the Champion walker
Of the world. That kind of q
credential will naturally attract at
tention to him wherever he toddles.
Captain Rodriglies is in. Washing
ton because the washington Times
and the Washington Herald invited
him to come here. They decided
Macfadden knows his business. he
has been at It long enough to
master It, and arranged with the.
captain to give the people OF Wash
ington chance to learn what
physical culture can do tor them.
They did this in way which places
this information at the disposal OF
residents free Of all cost.
The great outdoors Of the city,
Captain Rodrigues insists, Is stored
with remedies for most Of the III
from which the average persons
suffers. How to get and apply the
remedy is the secret he will give
away. His plan for doing this Is
sinnle enough. 1t consists Of ac5
coYnuanying him on his hikes.
They start Saturday afternoon.
Thousands Of persons will go on
them. They will go. first for. the
novelty Of the outing. Just to see
what other folk do. Then they VIII
60 because they win find out that
the captain Is interesting, that what
he shows and teaches them 70 40
viii benefit them They will learn
among other things how to Walk
properly.
Colleges Back Walking.
IN ali Of the great universities to-
dav walking is being taught. Inc
Northwest University at Chicago, as
q result of survey made OF the
student body, decided this week @
incorporate walking course among
other subjects taught.
But walking properly Is not the
only thing to be illustrated dHu
taught on the hikes. It Is just as
important to know how to breaIne
properly as to walk properly. Pos
sibly the latter cannot be accom-
plished without. first learning the
former.
And while learning how to breathe
properly and the way to Keep the
body while walking is being learned
additional instructions will be given.
Movements for the legs and the
arms, movements involving the use
of the side. and back muscles and
those controlling the abdomen ana
stomach, win be illustrated, all OF
them essential to a proper develop
ment of the body.
Big Following Seen.
'"The hikes will be- the greatest
novelties in which those who go
with me have taken part" Captain
Rodrigues declared today. II know
from my experience in other cities
what will follow. For every man
and woman VINO goes on the first
hike ten more will go the next time.
Unfortunately, cannot go back, day
after day, over the same elementary
courses. That is why 1t is important
the largest possible number should
go on the first hike. While some OF
the things I viii teach will be taught
daily, getting the lesson a second and
third time will do no harm.
Police attending the department
school in the Sixth precinct station
New Jersey, avenue above d street,
received their first lesson in physical
culture given by Captain Rodrigues
yesterday afternoon.
It consisted in a brief address
followed by several illustrations In
proper breathing and walking. Fol-
AOWLlB tLC CACLCAOCS LAAC NASA0o was
invited to accompany the captain
on his first hike Saturday after
noon. The invitation was generally
accepted. Captain r. M. Doyle.
| in command of the station, declared
he would join the hike.
DIR. w. G. Fowler. health officer
of the district, Endorsed Captain
Rodrigues efforts to spread the prac-
tice of physical culture in the out
doors.
"I am unqualifiedly in favor Of
physical culture. What Captain
Rodrigues will do deserves to be
supported. His hikes are along con-
structive lines. The body that Is
properly developed is naturally less
liable to contract contagious disease
than where the system Is depleted.
That is common sense. Whatever
makes for better physical condi-
ton deserves support"
MRS. RAPEER STARTS
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